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✊🏽 Nepal’s youth uprising explained: Decades of corruption reach a tipping point
https://globalvoices.org/2025/10/14/nepals-youth-uprising-explained-decades-of-corruption-reach-a-tipping-point/

Nepal’s youth uprising explained: Decades of corruption reach a tipping point
Will the protests launched in 2025 mark the beginning of a journey towards reform or simply be the latest chapter in Nepal’s long narrative of hope and disappointment?

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/five-crucial-earth-systems-near-a-tipping-point-report/

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report
Five of Earth’s vital systems are close to a point of irreversible change, warns a new report released by a global network of scientists ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate change conference in Brazil. The 2025 Global Tipping Points report updates a 2023 report to assess 25 Earth systems that human societies and economies depend […]

"Will 2026 be the year when coral reefs pass their tipping point?"
#Coral #CoralReef #Environment #Oceans

Will 2026 be the year when coral reefs pass their tipping point?
Many coral reefs are already very vulnerable, and another El Niño is forecast.

"The poverty threshold in the Bay Area is $28,081 annual income for one adult and $52,715 for a family of four, according to Tipping Point Community. The near poverty benchmark is $42,122 for one adult and $79,073 for a family of four."
As reference, San Francisco's minimum wage is $18.57, or $37,140/year (50x40hr weeks) At present the average rent for a studio is about $2300, low rent about maybe $1500 (Zumper website data). At the low rent studio, the rent burden is …