Jury finds Trump sexually abused writer in New York department store – BBC News

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The Heat: India History Controversy

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Congressman Dan Goldman (D-NY): “For George Santos to have a vote that counts as much as my vote is a travesty and I think that hopefully the Speaker will come around and recognize that that’s the right thing to do.”

Is India rewriting its Muslim history?

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Congressman Dan Goldman (D-NY): “For George Santos to have a vote that counts as much as my vote is a travesty and I think that hopefully the Speaker will come around and recognize that that’s the right thing to do.”

Why is India editing school textbooks?

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Congressman Dan Goldman (D-NY): “For George Santos to have a vote that counts as much as my vote is a travesty and I think that hopefully the Speaker will come around and recognize that that’s the right thing to do.”

Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea – Salata Institute, Harvard University

Cluster Research: Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea – Salata Institute, Harvard

SUMMARY

Examining the Impact of Sea-Level Rise, Urban Flooding, and Coastal Erosion on Settlement and Livelihoods in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria

Severe impacts of sea-level rise driven by global climate change – including coastal erosion, flooding, infrastructure damage, saltwater intrusion into freshwater supplies and an increase in water-borne disease – are already a reality across Africa and in particular the Gulf of Guinea. Adapting to the risk of

climate change requires careful management informed by solid projections of sea level rise, monitoring of coastal processes, and sensitivity to local governance, socioeconomic pressures and culture.

The Cluster is focusing on coastal communities in Abidjan, Accra, and Lagos that are at risk from sea-level rise and compounding impacts, such as flooding, saltwater intrusion, storm surge, and coastal erosion. In these communities, and other coastal ones in Africa, sea-level rise is jeopardizing livelihoods, impeding tourism, and damaging traditional fishing grounds. The goal of the project, therefore, is to identify viable climate adaptation strategies.

Harvard researchers are collaborating with their local counterparts, building local capacity in climate science through the training of African graduate students, partnering with local climate NGOs working in vulnerable communities, and collaborating with relevant government organizations to reinforce existing local endeavors and leverage first rate climate science to inform policy at the community and government levels.

The Cluster intends to build local resilience capacity through a two-pronged approach. First, the cluster is analyzing past and future sea-level rise across the Gulf of Guinea, including the implications of this rise for coastal erosion, and social and economic disruption. This portion of the project will yield two critical tools: a map showing the extent of coastal recession across the gulf due to long-term sea level change since 1970; and a coastal vulnerability index that quantifies the potential for additional coastal recession from storm-driven erosion; estimates economic costs; and guides community-level based mitigation and adaptation policies.

A second component of the project is to produce an atlas of case studies on sea-level rise mitigation efforts. The atlas is to inform the comparison of three adaptation strategies.

1) Coastal defense – The protection of high value stretches of the coast with levees and surf barriers behind the beach, littoral dune reforestation, bringing in sand to compensate for beach erosion and halting the industrial mining of beach sand, or by building rock or concrete groins into the water to slow the longshore movement of sand, thus keeping vital ports and rivers open for navigation.

2) Livelihood protection, in situ: Making coastal communities floodable but functional, by upgrading construction materials, improving drainage, and providing insurance against property losses to homes, fishing boats, etc.

3) Livelihood protection, ex situ: The voluntary non-temporary resettlement of vulnerable coastal populations, either with or without compensation. This managed population retreat from threatened areas.

The Cluster is using the comparison to inform policy at the community and government levels. The work involves answering questions, such as, what have been the responses of coastal communities to their changing environment? How can these efforts be bolstered for those who chose not to relocate? How can we assist in recommending cost-effective measures to cash-strapped West African governments?

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See related:

• Climate and Development”
• Global Climate Change & Africa

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• Global Climate Change & Africa: An Integrative Research & Information Platform

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Harvard Climate Action Week (HCAW)- The Salata Institute

Harvard Climate Action Week is a celebration and acceleration of climate research, education, and engagement across Harvard University.

West African Trade and Coast Society: A Family Study | Margaret Priestley,

Margaret Priestley, West African Trade and Coast Society: A Family Study (Oxford University Press, 1969)

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; First Edition (January 1, 1969)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 207 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192156381
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192156389
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds

See related:

• Brew of Africa
• James Hutton Brew (1844-1915) of Ghana and London – Jeffrey Green. Historian
• Jeffrey Green, Historian.

as well as:

• Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade: Randy J. Sparks
  and
• Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast (The Early Modern Americas): Pernille Ipsen
• Recovering A Looted Past ~ “Repatriating” African History: Old Artifacts + Technology ~ New Communities + New Narratives in African History

James Hutton Brew (1844-1915) of Ghana and London – Jeffrey Green. Historian

In Victorian times there was a trickle of Africans who made their homes in Britain whilst retaining family and business links with their homeland. Those who had been at school or college in Britain (and Ireland) had sometimes spent longer away from Africa or the Caribbean than living there. Schooling was often followed by training for a profession such as law, engineering, or medicine. Music attracted women, and sometimes led to training in Germany or France. Some families sent their children on these paths generation after generation. This was a social and financial investment, seldom undertaken by families lacking financial strengths. Fading group photographs, aged year books, and reports and other documentation can be located, and they expand our knowledge of the individuals whose descendants may hold letters and documentation. Even so there are substantial gaps in our knowledge — the Trinidad-born John Alcindor’s studies at Edinburgh University 1893-1899 are well documented at the university and his grandchildren possess his medical certificate from 1899 but London street directories and professional registers then have a five-to-six year gap. The Jamaica-born James Jackson Brown studied at the London Hospital from 1906, having studied in Canada but the London files have just a note supporting their decision to recognise some of that Canadian training. We do not know where in Canada Brown studied.

The Brew family of Ghana (then called the Gold Coast) has been studied by Margaret Priestley and published in West African Trade and Coast Society: A Family Study (Oxford University Press, 1969) and used copies are available. The 18th century Brew was an Irishman whose family was Fanti: Fanti inheritance was through the female whereas Irish/British was through the male, which with differences in language and settlement made Brew and his descendants well placed to mediate between Europeans and Africans. Priestley remarks that James Hutton Brew was born in July 1844 and ‘received his education in England where he was sent at the age of eight. After returning to the coast, he took up the practice of law; in 1864, at the age of twenty, he was licensed as one of the first Gold Coast attorneys’. He became a representative of what was then termed ‘the educated African’. He established a number of newspapers in the 1880s and was a representative of educated African ambitions. He returned to England on legal and business matters in 1888 ‘and until his death twenty-seven years later, he lived in England’ (Priestley p 169).

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See related:

Margaret Priestley, West African Trade and Coast Society: A Family Study (Oxford University Press, 1969)

and

Jeffrey Green, Historian.

as well as:

• Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade: Randy J. Sparks
  and
• Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast (The Early Modern Americas): Pernille Ipsen 
  and
• Recovering A Looted Past ~ “Repatriating” African History: Old Artifacts + Technology ~ New Communities + New Narratives in African History

Putting Big Oil’s profits in perspective

The climate crisis just keeps getting worse. And the business of causing it just keeps getting better.

Last week, the four highest-polluting investor-owned companies in the world—Exxon, Chevron, Shell, and BP—finished posting their first quarter profits for 2023. And the results, like last year’s, were mind-numbingly large.

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See related Shell News concerning Nigeria.