Agricultural laborers spray against insects and weeds inside the orchards of a fruit farm in Mesa, California.Bret Stirton/ Getty
This piece was published originally by Capital & Main. You can read their full series on the struggle for farmworker health care in California, Ill Harvest, here.
Carmen Hernandez lives in a small home on Chateau Fresno Avenue, one of the three streets
In her 10 years as a nurse, Sara Pikaart had never ignored a call light. But in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, Pikaart simply had no way to respond to all the patients’ appeals for help. At Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital in Gallup, N.M., there were too many patients and too few nurses. The town of 21,000 was locked down, and just outside its borders, the Navajo Nation was reporting infection rates higher than
Rural areas are still lagging well behind big cities when it comes to the number of electric vehicle charging points, figures show.
There are fears that many county areas could be left behind the cities – just as they were for years with superfast broadband.
Data shows that London has more chargers than all of England’s counties combined, despite the latter being home to almost half of the country’s population.
Drivers in rural areas have one charging point every 16
Once a month, GP Lisa Silver updates a spreadsheet on her computer, recording how many patients are registered at her village practice at the top of the Chilterns. ‘In 2015 we had 3,454 patients,’ she says. ‘We now have 4,430.’
But although they’ve gained close to an extra 1,000 patients, what she and her GP partner, Julie Barton, haven’t been able to get for years is another GP to share the mounting workload. After five years of looking, they have
A Boeing 737 that plummeted 30,000ft to the ground and burst into flames in China killing all 132 on board suffered a catastrophic ‘loss of control event’ and plunged to the ground at 350mph in a two-minute death spiral, experts have warned.
The China Eastern Airlines flight nosedived before smashing into the hillside, erupting in a huge fireball and causing a forest fire visible in NASA satellite images taken from Space, near the city of Wuzhou in Teng county in
