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@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-10-22 06:57:43

First African Nation to Eliminate River Blindness Treated Millions With Ivermectin to Achieve Great Success goodnewsnetwork.org/first-afri

First African Nation to Eliminate River Blindness Treated Millions With Ivermectin to Achieve Great Success
Onchocerciasis, or river blindness, is spread via the filarial parasite Onchocerca volvulus transmitted through blackflies.

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-12-25 15:14:36

Just a hut under a tree in the mist ...
I saw this when I was walking back from a location scouting. When I was back at the car, I turned around - already ready to drive away when I noticed this gnarly tree in the field.
The fog was just light enough to create an interesting mood I think.
#photography

A solitary tree stands resolute in a world softened by mist, its bare branches reaching upward like skeletal fingers against the muted sky. The landscape is wrapped in a quiet, ethereal haze, blurring the horizon into a seamless blend of earth and sky. Shades of gray dominate the scene—pale silver where the light struggles through the overcast clouds, deeper charcoal along the shadowed ground—creating a mood both melancholic and peaceful. The open field stretches endlessly, its surface damp an…
A quiet winter woodland unfolds in soft shades of gray and muted silver, where bare branches stretch like delicate lace against a pale, overcast sky. The forest stands in hushed stillness, its skeletal trees stripped of leaves, their intricate patterns creating a natural tapestry of lines and shadows. A gentle mist lingers between the trunks, blurring the distance and lending the scene an ethereal, almost dreamlike quality. The ground is a patchwork of frosty grass and fallen twigs, crunching …
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-21 22:09:08

On Thursday, 11 of the UK's leading oncologists, economists and medical ethicists will meet at the Department of Health’s headquarters in London
to make a decision that will have consequences for millions of men.
The National Screening Committee (NSC) will issue a recommendation on whether to launch the first NHS screening programme for prostate cancer.
Celebrities, sports stars and politicians, including Sir Chris Hoy and David Lammy, have campaigned for the greater us…

NHS could start prostate cancer screening — which men are eligible?
The National Screening Committee is expected to recommend the first-ever screening programme for the disease next week, but only for those at the highest risk

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-12-26 16:00:33

"Sea change: the drive to restore millions of oysters on the Norfolk coast"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Norfolk #Oysters

Sea change: the drive to restore millions of oysters on the Norfolk coast
The first ever mass deployment of mother reef bricks aims to rebuild habitats – and could reshape the North Sea

@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca
2025-11-10 02:04:01

Not to make light of the latter, but "Once again millions of Canadians literally forget how to drive after first snowfall"* is Canada's "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens".**
*<thebeaverton.c…

Once again millions of Canadians literally forget how to drive after first snowfall
OTTAWA – Ministry of Transportation offices across Canada are once again finding themselves overrun with what has become a familiar sight each winter, as hundreds of thousands of Canadians must restart their licensing processes from the very beginning after the mere sight of snow has caused them to completely forget how to drive a car. […]

@StephenRees@mas.to
2025-11-22 19:00:35

Fair Vote Canada is pleased to announce the Teacher Resources section of our website. The first teacher resource has now been added.
A Fair Vote? Rights, Responsibilities, and Decision-Making in a Democracy is an exciting new resource for Grade 5 Social Studies teachers, which was developed by the Elementary Teachers of Toronto and Fair Vote Canada.

A picture of the Canadian Houses of Parliament with a Canada maple leaf flag flying and the text as follows What is fair? Grade 5 students explore government and fairness by comparing political systems and exploring democracies through a Citizens' Assembly. Ready-to-use Lessons, Inquiry-based Final Project, Free Resource and Training, French Version coming soon Includes a link https://secure.fairvote.ca/civicrm/mailing/url?u=240824&qid=32832287
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-19 16:06:14

🤚 Thailand seizes millions in assets and issues arrest warrants in scams crackdown
japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/

Thailand seizes millions in assets and issues arrest warrants in scams crackdown
Parts of Southeast Asia have become hubs for online fraud, with criminal networks earning billions from illegal compounds where trafficking victims are often forced to work.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-02 17:25:52

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy developer tool startup Bun for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic in Advanced Talks to Buy Developer Tool Startup in First Acquisition
Anthropic is in advanced discussions to buy Bun, a maker of software used to run and manage code more efficiently, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The artificial intelligence company is in talks to pay in the low hundreds of millions of dollars for the startup, which would be ...

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-12-14 11:00:11

"Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?"
#Environment #Trees #Environment

Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?
We are still logging and degrading global forests at terrifying speed. How can we slow this destruction, including in Australia?

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-19 23:15:21

Escalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America,
Donald Trump said Sunday, the United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro,
“does nothing to stop” drug production"
The U.S. president warned that Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest U.S. strik…

Trump announces an end to US aid to Colombia
It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance. Trump says he'll slash U.S. assistance and enact tariffs because Colombia's leftist president “does nothing to stop” drug production and is an “illegal drug leader.” Petro is rejecting the accusations and defending his work to fight narcotics in Colombia, the world’s largest exporter of cocaine. Colombia …