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Despite the Pandemic, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Hits Another Record High

Cultureteca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSBydPkLEII Changing consumption patterns and reduced travel as nations closed their borders and citizens were forced to stay at home quickly led to lower levels of pollution during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. By the middle of April 2020, global carbon dioxide emissions had decreased by 17 percent compared to mean levels for 2019. Air pollution, which by World...

Paatal Lok: ‘Bridges’

Television
With lights flashing as they idle towards the scene of a domestic dispute, the police inspector Hathiram Chaudhary explains to his junior office Imran how the world works. As in Hindu cosmology, our world consists of three parts: heaven and earth, and then there is the paatal lok. According to Chaudhary (Jaideep Ahlawat), for an aspiring police officer heaven and...

Cultureteca 19.07.20

Miscellany
At the beginning of a new week, global cases of coronavirus passed 13 million, with the World Health Organization sending out warning signals as 1 million cases in five days hastened the spread. The precipitous rise was the product of the United States, Brazil, India, and South Africa, four countries where the bulk of infections were taking place. Surging...