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[Link] 'No One’s Life is Worth a Package': Amazon Workers Are Organizing for Cell Phone Access
Read: 20/12/2021 www.vice.com
The Amazon workers are also demanding that Amazon pay workers for shifts cancelled due to inclement weather. And during school closures, they want Amazon to excuse all absences caused by severe weather and to be paid 80 percent of their salary.
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[Link] Amazon's retail CEO Dave Clark defends the company's response to the deadly Edwardsville tornado in internal memo: 'fast action saved lives'
Read: 19/12/2021 www.businessinsider.com
Amazon retail boss Dave Clark thanked employees in an internal memo on Wednesday, following his visit to the Edwardsville, IL, warehouse that was struck by a deadly tornado last week.
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[Link] The ‘backbone’ of regional Australia under strain as volunteer groups suffer pandemic burnout
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The cumulative effect of natural disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic has increased fatigue and stress among volunteers in regional Australia, making it harder for them to provide essential support within the community, a study has found.
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[Link] NASA unveils asteroid-fighting spacecraft as it prepares for Armageddon-style mission test
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The spacecraft will be launched later this month as part of the space agency's first planetary defence test mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). It will direct itself at an asteroid while traveling at a speed of about 24,000 kilometres per hour.
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[Link] How Big Telecom Killed Rules That Would Have Prevented Hurricane Ida Outages
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
As Louisiana residents dig out from underneath the massive damage caused by Hurricane Ida, many are having to do so without essential communications options.
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[Link] Death Toll Rising After a Violent Earthquake Shakes Haiti
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
The epicenter of the earthquake, which preliminary readings registered at a magnitude of 7.2, was located near Les Cayes, a port city of more than 70,000 residents near the country’s southwestern tip about 78 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince.
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[Link] The Odds of This Dangerous Asteroid Hitting Earth Just Went Up
Read: 11/8/2021 www.vice.com
The odds that one of the most hazardous known asteroids might collide with Earth in the coming centuries just went up, though they are still extremely low. There is now a 0.057 percent chance of an impact before 2300, according to a new study that was discussed in a NASA teleconference on Wednesday.
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[Link] Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than COVID. A mental health crisis is looming
Read: 7/8/2021 theconversation.com
As we write this article, the Delta strain of COVID-19 is reminding the world the pandemic is far from over, with millions of Australians in lockdown and infection rates outpacing a global vaccination effort.
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[Link] Even Minor Volcanic Eruptions Could Cause Global Catastrophe, Study Finds
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Visions of volcanic disaster typically have massive, apocalyptic dimensions; think Pompeii or Dante's Peak. Now, however, University of Cambridge researchers have identified seven regions where even small, active volcanoes pose an underestimated risk to our global infrastructure.
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[Link] ‘What can we do?’ Chinese discuss role of climate crisis in deadly floods
Read: 27/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
At about 5pm last Tuesday, as heavy rainfall continued to pound her apartment building in Zhengzhou, the climate policy researcher Zhang Jin headed out to her local supermarket.
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