VIDEO. United Kingdom, first western country to approve a coronavirus vaccine

 

 

 

This was “Day V”, the first day of vaccination against the coronavirus in the United Kingdom

The UK has begun vaccinating its population against COVID-19, an encouraging move that other countries hope to follow soon to tackle a pandemic that continues to rage across the world. The first to receive the vaccine: people over 80 years of age and health personnel.

The British became the first Europeans to start receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. This day was christened by the UK Health Minister, Matt Hancock, as "V Day", as he explained, "of vaccine, of victory."

Margaret Keenan, 90, became the first person in the UK and the world to receive the COVID-19 vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.

Keenan, whom his friends and family call "Maggie," received the first of two doses of the vaccine from Filipino nurse May Parsons. The woman, who will turn 91 next week and is a native of the Northern Irish town of Enniskillen, is a former employee of a jewelry store, has a daughter, a son and four grandchildren.

“I feel so privileged to be the first person to be vaccinated against COVID-19. It is the best birthday present, early on, and because it means that I will finally be able to spend time with my family and friends on New Years after being practically alone all year, ”she declared.

 

 

 

 

 

Coronavirus: How to escape the "era of pandemics"

 
It is possible to avoid pandemics, but you have to move from reaction to prevention, says the new UN report.

La doctora Marcela Uhart recibió una llamada desde Bolivia que requería una respuesta urgente.

Dead monkeys had been found and everything indicated that it could be yellow fever.

What happened in the crucial days that followed became an example of what countries not only in Latin America but globally can do to protect themselves from pandemics.

"In the end there was no human case of yellow fever. And we were able to do all of this in just eight days," Uhart, a wildlife veterinarian and director of the Latin American program at the One Health Institute of the University of California, told BBC Mundo. Davis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are waging a "suicidal war" against nature, warns Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General

Antonio Guterres has been the Secretary General of the United Nations since January 1, 2017

 

"Our planet is broken", warns the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres in a speech to which the BBC had exclusive access and which he delivered at a special event on the environment.

Humanity is waging what he describes as a "suicidal war" against nature.

"Nature always fights back, and it does so with increasing strength and fury," he says.

Guterres wants to put the fight against climate change at the center of the UN's global mission.

 

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November 2020, the hottest month on record

It has exceeded by 0.13 degrees those of 2016 and 2019, in which the highest temperatures had been verified so far, the European service on climate change Copernicus announced on Monday.

 

 

 

November 2020 has been the hottest since there are records in the world and has exceeded by 0.13 degrees those of 2016 and 2019, in which the highest temperatures had been confirmed so far, announced this Monday the European service on the climate change Copernicus.

Copernicus indicated in its monthly bulletin that the global temperature in the month has been 0.77 degrees higher than the average for the months of November of the 1981-2010 period that is taken as a reference.

If this difference is compared with the respective averages for that 30-year period, November 2020 was the fourth month with the highest anomaly.

Above are the months of February 2020 (with an anomaly of 0.88 degrees with respect to the average), March 2016 (0.82 degrees) and February 2020 (0.80 degrees).

 

 

 

 

 

Several Alaskan islands appear to be part of the same submerged volcano

If the researchers' suspicions are correct, the newly discovered volcanic caldera would belong to the same category of volcanoes as the Yellowstone Caldera and other volcanoes that have had super-eruptions with dire global consequences.

 

 

 

A group of volcanic islands in Alaska's Aleutian chain appears to be part of a single, undiscovered giant volcano, according to findings presented at the AGU's Fall 2020 Meeting.

If the researchers' suspicions are correct, the newly discovered volcanic caldera would belong to the same category of volcanoes as the Yellowstone Caldera and other volcanoes that have had super-eruptions with dire global consequences.

The Four Mountain Islands in the central Aleutians are a compact group of six stratovolcanoes named Carlisle, Cleveland, Herbert, Kagamil, Tana, and Uliaga. Stratovolcanoes are what most people imagine when they think of a volcano: a steep conical mountain with a banner of clouds and ash billowing from the top. They can have powerful eruptions, like the one on Mount Saint Helena in 1980, but are dwarfed by much less frequent eruptions that form calderas.

Researchers from a variety of institutions and disciplines have been studying Mount Cleveland, the group's most active volcano, trying to understand the nature of the Four Mountain Islands. They have gathered multiple evidence showing that the islands could belong to an interconnected caldera.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Australia they find the oldest known tropical reef fish

 

Off the coast of Western Australia (WA), researchers found an 81-year-old specimen of a midnight snapper (Macolor macularis). This specimen was confirmed as the oldest tropical reef fish in the world. Image of midnight snapper dated at 81 years.

Brett Taylor, a fish biologist at the institute and in charge of directing the study, explained that together with his work group they examined the age of three species of tropical fish, the red sea bass (Lutjanus bohar), the midnight snapper (Macolor macularis) and black and white snapper (Macolor niger). So far, the oldest fish they had found in shallow tropical waters were around 60 years old.

The oldest tropical reef fish was a 79-year-old red bass caught during a 1997 fishery survey at Rowley Shoals in northwestern Australia. Now, Taylor pointed out that among the study specimens is the fish that managed to break that record. It is an 81-year-old midnight snapper (Macolor macularis) that was collected in 2016 in this same area.

 

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They present a new Atlas of the Amazon that will help sustainable planning

Between 2000 and 2018, the advance of deforestation in the Amazon region accumulated the loss of 513,016 square kilometers of native forest, a territory equivalent to the surface of Spain.

The new Atlas of the Amazon presented this Tuesday will be a fundamental support for the planning of sustainable development, in order to face the rampant deforestation, the impact of illegal mining and the fires in that area known as the lung of the world.

This was pointed out to Efe by Carmen Josse, director of the environmental foundation EcoCiencia, which is part of the Amazonian Network for Georeferenced Socio-environmental Information (Raisg), which has been monitoring the environmental situation of the jungle for several years, and which presented its "Amazon Atlas Under pressure".

 

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