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Yuk, segera follow WhatsApp Channel Mongabay Indonesia dan dapatkan berita terbaru setiap harinya. Pekan ini, Konferensi Perubahan Iklim ke-30 di Belem, Brasil akan usai. Lebih dari 80 negara sepakat mendorong upaya keluar dari penggunaan energi berbahan bakar fosil. Tapi, Indonesia belum juga berkomitmen upaya ini, bahkan cenderung mengikuti kepentingan pelobi industri fosil. Sementara di Indonesia, […] The post Desakan Pemerintah Serius Menanggapi Kerentanan Lingkungan appeared first on Mongabay.co.id.

Komitmen iklim Indonesia masih setengah hati. Satu sisi, dokumen Second Nationally Determined Contribution (SNDC) mengandalkan sektor lahan dan penggunaan lain (forest and other land use/FoLU) sebagai tulang punggung pengurangan emisi. Sisi lain, ancaman deforestasi pun masih masif, terutama dari sektor energi yang nampak enggan berkontribusi maksimal. Di Kalimantan Timur (Kaltim), misal, data Aksi Ekologis […] The post Setengah Hati Sektor Energi dalam Komitmen Iklim Indonesia appeared first on Mongabay.co.id.

La selección del país de la bota jugará su tercera final consecutiva del torneo tras superar a una combativa Bélgica, pese a las bajas de Sinner y Musetti.

The Trump administration isn’t done with its fight with Fresno and others over federal funding. On Friday morning, the U.S. Department of Justice appealed a preliminary injunction blocking federal agencies from stripping federal funding for local governments, including the City of Fresno. The funding was threatened after federal agencies determined local jurisdictions weren’t following President […] The post Fresno’s federal funding may still be at risk, as U.S. DOJ appeals injunction appeared first on Fresnoland.

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Efforts to ensure recalled ByHeart infant formula is removed from store shelves have been hampered across the country because of bureaucratic delays by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in sharing product distribution lists with state and local officials, according to the head of the Association of Food and Drug Officials. “I’m not sure they recognize the sense of urgency,” Steven Mandernach, the association’s executive director, told Healthbeat on Friday, amid the nationwide outbreak of infant botulism cases linked to ByHeart’s baby formula. “You expect all hands on deck. This is infants.” Mandernach said the FDA didn’t start fully sharing ByHeart’s product distribution lists with all state and local food safety officials until a teleconference held 6 p.m. Nov. 14 – nearly a week after the formula was linked to the outbreak and the company announced its initial recall on Nov. 8. “We wasted almost a week,” Mandernach said. He said recall effectiveness inspections have been finding recalled ByHeart formula offered for sale at about 10% of stores that had been checked as of earlier this week. On Wednesday and Thursday, the FDA warned the public that recalled ByHeart formula is still being found on the shelves of major retailers, including Walmart, Target and Kroger stores. The FDA did not immediately respond to Healthbeat’s questions Friday about why it took so long for the agency to share distribution lists with local food safety officials. At least 31 infants who have been fed ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula have been hospitalized in 15 states with suspected or confirmed infant botulism as of this week. ByHeart has announced that its independent testing has found the bacteria that causes infant botulism in some of its formula. Federal health officials have warned consumers worldwide to not feed any ByHeart infant formula to babies because of the potential for it to be contaminated with botulism bacteria spores. It can take up to 30 days between when a baby ingests botulism spores until they start showing signs of illness. Disjointed sharing of ByHeart sales locations delays removal Mandernach, in an interview with Healthbeat, described what he said were the FDA’s delayed, limited and disjointed sharing of critical information needed by local food safety officials about what stores and distributors received ByHeart’s formula. Part of the issue has been bureaucratic, he said. In recent years, he said, the FDA’s legal team has reinterpreted the agency’s authority. The FDA now considers a food manufacturer’s list of where it sent its recalled products to be confidential business information that cannot be shared with local food safety officials unless they have signed a privacy agreement. The FDA can also go through an internal process to allow it to justify sharing the information with local departments, Mandernach said, which the agency ultimately completed on Nov. 14. “No one expects the law to prohibit the agency from trying to share information in this type of event,” he said. “For it to take four days for them to figure out how to use that exemption, that’s just not normal.” Mandernach said there has been a bipartisan effort in Congress for some time to address the bureaucratic hurdles to sharing distribution lists for recalled products with local officials, but the fix hasn’t happened. While some states that had federal data-sharing agreements with the FDA received ByHeart distribution lists on Nov. 11 and 12, Mandernach said they were not allowed to share the lists with others. And not all of the departments who had agreements with the FDA were given the information at that time, he said. “Finally, Friday night [Nov. 14] at 6 p.m., FDA holds a call with all the state partners and some of the large health department partners and says we’re officially able to share the list with you,” Mandernach said. By that late hour, it meant that many local and state food safety programs were not able to start visiting stores and other locations on the lists until Monday. “Wow. We waited from Tuesday to Friday night at 6,” he said. In its outbreak updates to the public this week, the FDA emphasized that all ByHeart infant formula products, including cans and single-serve “anywhere pack” sticks have been recalled, and they should not be available for sale in stores or online. “FDA has received reports that recalled formula is still being found on store shelves in multiple states, including at multiple Walmart, Target, and Kroger locations, and at one or more Sprouts Organic Market, Safeway, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, and Star Market locations,” the agency said in an announcement on Thursday. “FDA is working with state partners and retailers to ensure an effective recall and immediate removal of these products from store shelves across the country.” Walmart said in a statement on Friday it has removed ByHeart formula from its stores and clubs as well as online sites. The retailer also said it has a “sales restriction” in place on ByHeart products, which electronically stops the products’ barcode from being scanned and sold to a customer when they check out. Sprouts, which said it took “immediate action” to remove ByHeart products from its shelves, told Healthbeat the stores have also taken “additional measures” with vendors to ensure no remaining product is available for sale. Recalled products have been left on store shelves during previous outbreaks Food safety advocates said Friday it’s not surprising that ByHeart infant formula continues to be found on store shelves in multiple states, nearly two weeks into a recall and amid a nationwide nationwide outbreak of infant botulism “This is part of a pattern we’ve seen in recalls, where products are often left on store shelves well after the recall announcement,” said Sarah Sorscher, director of regulatory affairs for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food and health watchdog organization based in Washington, D.C. “It’s just a lot of dysfunction in how recalls are managed in this country,” she said. The delays in FDA sharing ByHeart’s distribution lists with state officials is an example of this, Sorscher said. “That slows the recall check because states can’t go out and check on the effectiveness of the recall unless they have that list,” she said. “FDA has repeatedly asked Congress to give it the authority to share more freely with states.” During 2023 and 2024, after nationwide recalls of certain brands of cinnamon applesauce pouches that were linked to elevated lead levels in children, the FDA continued to find the product being sold on the shelves of Dollar Tree stores. The FDA issued a formal warning letter to Dollar Tree in June 2024. “In the weeks and months that followed the manufacturer’s voluntary recall of apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches, public health officials across many states reported continuing to see recalled WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches on Dollar Tree store shelves,” the FDA said at the time it issued the warning letter. “When a food is recalled, retailers play a crucial role in carrying out the recall by ensuring that recalled products are not available to consumers at their stores,” the FDA said at the end of the recall. Still, it’s not uncommon for products to remain on store shelves, said Barbara Kowalcyk, director of the Institute for Food Safety and Nutrition Security at George Washington University. The current issues with ByHeart formula remaining on store shelves deserves further scrutiny, she said. “It’s not surprising to me, but it’s saddening. We know recall effectiveness is not as good as it should be,” Kowalcyk said. But this particular product involved such a vulnerable population – infants who often rely on formula as their only source of nutrition. “I think there needs to be an assessment of why that happened,” she said. ByHeart officials on Friday said they have been working “with urgency” to recall their formula. The company told Healthbeat it has notified all of its retail customers to remove all ByHeart formula from shelves. “Since November 9, ByHeart has notified retailer partners four times, and they have confirmed communication has been sent to stores. The FDA has also shared notifications with retailers,” the company said. ByHeart also said it has taken action to notify members of its OpenHearted formula donation program of the recall. “All OpenHearted partner organizations have been notified, and ByHeart has helped aid recall implementation with them. We have shared all necessary information on our donation programs with the FDA and other regulatory bodies, as needed,” the company said. Alison Young is Healthbeat’s senior national reporter. You can reach her at ayoung@healthbeat.org or through the messaging app Signal at alisonyoungreports.48

A coalition of labor and advocacy groups announced Friday they will try to get a proposed countywide half-cent sales tax hike on the November 2026 ballot.  The post County Coalition Pressing Ahead on Sales-Tax Pitch appeared first on Voice of San Diego.

法國世界報東京通訊員彭斯周五就中日危機發表文章表示，日本的和平主義正在受到中日關係緊張的考驗。 他說，日本右翼試圖通過強化外部威脅、煽動公眾焦慮，為擴軍和強化防衛能力尋找正當性。中日兩國間的此次危機恐怕難以輕易化解。

法国世界报东京通讯员彭斯周五就中日危机发表文章表示，日本的和平主义正在受到中日关系紧张的考验。 他说，日本右翼试图通过强化外部威胁、煽动公众焦虑，为扩军和强化防卫能力寻找正当性。中日两国间的此次危机恐怕难以轻易化解。

首届在非洲举办的G20峰会将于本周末举行，主办国南非与美国之间的权力斗争为会议蒙上阴影。

首屆在非洲舉辦的G20峰會將於本周末舉行，主辦國南非與美國之間的權力鬥爭為會議蒙上陰影。

Una nueva denuncia expone la gravedad institucional del IAC (Instituto Autárquico de Colonización y Fomento. Rural) en el conflicto territorial en Gualjaina. Abogadas vinculados a las posiciones indígenas presentaron ante la Fiscalía General una acusación formal contra el presidente del IAC, Horacio Massacese, por el presunto delito de abuso de autoridad. La denuncia sostiene […]

Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are surging in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country. The outbreaks are fueled by falling vaccination rates, fading immunity, and delays in public health tracking systems, according to interviews with state and federal health officials. Babies too young to be fully […]

El portero catalán reaparece tras dos meses lesionado justo en el regreso del Barça a casa, con un once marcado por bajas clave en la medular.

The report concludes that the water supply was too slow, not too low, and even a functioning reservoir likely wouldn’t have stopped the Palisades Fire.

Johnny Ford returned to Stockton’s City Hall on Wednesday, and became focused on familiarizing himself with each city department and filling the vacant executive staff positions in the city government. City Manager Johnny Ford returns to Stockton City Hall and gets to work is a story from Stocktonia News, a rigorous and factual newsroom covering Greater Stockton, California. Please consider making a charitable contribution to support our journalism.

It's the final step in the rebuilding process.

Organization leaders say they don’t expect to see a drop in need for food assistance anytime soon, particularly with the holidays approaching and high cost of living in the Los Angeles area.

(The Center Square) - The Legislative Analyst’s Office released its outlook on the 2026-27 budget, highlighting the state’s weak position and an $18 billion shortfall. The nonpartisan office releases the report annually to give the Legislature an idea of its starting point before the Assembly and Senate convene each January. The main causes of the 2026-27 budget problems, the Legislative Analyst’s Office reported, include obligations to school and community college funding established by the passage of Proposition 98, which California voters passed in 1988. Main causes also include debt and reserve deposit requirements, which the state has to pay for in its annual budget, as established by Proposition 2, passed in 2014. The funds the Legislature would have to allocate to pay for the expenses related to those two propositions would exceed almost all of the $11 billion gain in revenue the state raked in during the last year. The Legislative Analyst’s Office told The Center Square on Friday that the state’s personal income tax collection is high because many high-income workers in California work in the technology industry, one of the state’s largest and wealthiest industries. Much of that personal wealth for those who work in tech is tied to investment assets, like stocks, according to the office. With the uptick in the stock market associated with that excitement over artificial intelligence, concerns about that longevity fueled the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s “middle-ground” approach to the budget outlook. “We’re trying to look at how sustainable that is, and we’re looking at these indicators that are telling us that the stock market is likely overheated,” said Carolyn Chu, chief deputy legislative assistant for the Legislative Analyst's Office. “The run-up in the stock market is driven by many of these AI or AI-adjacent companies," Chu told The Center Square. "We also look at how the stock market tends to react to major innovations in technology, and often, the stock market overreacts to major innovations in technology, even when that technology can be quite transformative.” While there is some doubt that the development of AI technology will continue fueling a rise in the stock market long-term, the budget outlook says AI is the one “bright spot” for potential revenue in the coming year. Excitement over AI technology hasn’t just been the main driver of strong income tax collection over the last two years in California, according to the budget outlook, but has also served to increase the stock market by 50% in the last two years. “Most of these gains come from the meteoric rise in the value of a handful of tech companies that investors believe will be major beneficiaries of recent advances in AI,” the outlook reads. “These companies have made big bets on AI, spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers and offering extraordinary pay packages to recruit AI researchers.” That overheated market has a few key signs, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, namely that investors are borrowing more to invest and households are becoming more invested in the stock market than they have been in 70 years. Higher personal income tax collection in California, because it is tied so closely to the stock market, could also hold the potential to go down if a downturn in the stock market occurs, the Legislative Analyst's Office said. If it does, income tax collection will go down, leading to less revenue for the state to work with in its budget. Moving ahead in forming a budget while knowing the financial challenges the state faces is imperative, the Legislative Analyst's Office said, especially since it could have implications for programs and services many residents of the state depend on. “For the legislature to build in some of this insurance against a market turn is important,” Chu told The Center Square. “It is a challenge the legislature faces, because the lion’s share of spending that the legislature has control over does support services that support low-income Californians.” Some legislators have already spoken out about the Legislative Analyst's Office’s findings in the annual budget outlook, with state Sen. Megan Dahle, R-Bieber, writing in an e-newsletter sent on Friday that the state’s budget outlook “is not an early Christmas present.” “California has seen booms and busts – and their effect on state budgets – before,” Dahle wrote in the newsletter. “You’ve probably heard of the past few years’ budget deficits‚ which were largely resolved through one-time fixes‚ including internal borrowing and reserves. The state has fewer options left for those solutions‚ which means the coming budget year will demand difficult decisions and hard looks at what state programs are working and getting the taxpayers their money’s worth.” The nonpartisan California Budget & Policy Center also responded to the release of the budget outlook in a press release on Wednesday, saying that the most affluent Californians are continuing to do well financially, while the majority still struggle to afford basic amenities. “While these stronger-than-expected returns have boosted state revenues, they reflect a deeply unequal economy: one in which a small number of wealthy investors are doing exceptionally well, even as everyday Californians continue to struggle with rising costs and a weak labor market,” said Scott Graves, the budget director at the California Budget & Policy Center. “Rising costs in health and safety net programs signal that Californians need and value access to affordable health care and other supports, especially as federal funding continues to erode.” Legislators who sit on budget and fiscal committees were not available on Friday to answer The Center Square's questions. Staff from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office were also unavailable.

At the 38th annual ATHENA Awards Luncheon on Thursday, the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce recognized three remarkable women whose leadership is shaping San Joaquin County. Honoring courage and community: 38th annual ATHENA Awards celebrate leadership across generations is a story from Stocktonia News, a rigorous and factual newsroom covering Greater Stockton, California. Please consider making a charitable contribution to support our journalism.