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Vroege Vogels TV | 17 mei 2026 | Slikken van de Heen (TV NPO 2)
Vroege Vogels is een live-radioprogr
In het radioprogramma wordt het gesproken woord omlijst door licht klassieke muziek en salonmuziek. He
In Slikken van de Heen werd veertig jaar geleden de resetknop ingedrukt. Door de bouw van de Deltawerken veranderde de natuur van zout naar zoet. Met de geur van watermunt in de neus ziet de filmploeg hoe fitissen en graspiepers zich voorbereiden op het broedseizoen. Europese bizons waden door het Krammer-Volkerak, waar zoetwatermollusken leven. Tegelijk zijn sporen van het zoute verleden nog zichtbaar: zeekraal groeit in de oude slikken en vlak over de dam foerageren wulpen en zilverplevieren. Als klap op de vuurpijl zijn de visarenden terug en ziet Menno Bentveld de eerste balts en paring van dit jaar.
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2026 JH2 – closest approach to Earth
2026 JH2 is a small near-Earth asteroid with a diameter between 15 and 35 metres.
It was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey in Tucson, Arizona on 10 May 2026. Classified as an Earth-crossing Apollo asteroid, 2026 JH2 will pass no closer than 91,000 ± 4,500 kilometres from Earth on 18 May 2026, far enough to pose no threat. During its close approach to Earth, it will brighten to an apparent magnitude of up to 11.5, bright enough to be seen by a small telescope under dark skies.
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Vroege Vogels Radio | 17 mei 2026 (Radio 1 NPO)
Vroege Vogels is een live-radioprogramma, tv-programma en online community van BNNVARA over natuur en milieu.
In het radioprogramma wordt het gesproken woord omlijst door licht klassieke muziek en salonmuziek. Het radioprogramma werd in 1978 voor het eerst uitgezonden door de VARA en is een van de langst lopende en best beluisterde radioprogramma’s van de publieke omroep. Het wordt elke zondagmorgen uitgezonden tussen 07:00 en 10:00 op NPO Radio 1. De beginmuziek is een bewerking van Vivaldi’s “Piccolo Concerto in C major” (RV 443).
Veel natuurvolkeren zien de natuur als een complex samenhangend geheel waar je zelf ook onderdeel van bent. In die geest geven Michel Grobbe en Diederik Pomstra de opleiding ‘Educational Professional Bushcraft’. Voor de inheemse bevolking in de Filipijnen kan wilde honing wel eens de sleutel zijn tot het verkrijgen van landrechten. Merlijn van Weerd doet al meer dan twintig jaar onderzoek naar het beschermen van de lokale natuur op de archipel. We sluiten het Nationaal Vogelconcert af met de kleine karekiet. De column is van Jocelyn de Kwant. Vroege Vogels Radio wordt gepresenteerd door Menno Bentveld vanuit het Groene Huis in Amersfoort.
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#WorldHypertensionDay / Wereld Hypertensie Dag 2026
World Hypertension Day is observed every May 17th in order to raise awareness and promote hypertension prevention, detection and control.
High blood pressure is the main risk factor to develop cardiovascular disease. More than one billion people around the world live with hypertension (high blood pressure), which is a major cause of cardiovascular disease and premature death worldwide. The burden of hypertension is felt disproportionately in low- and middle-income countries, where two thirds of cases are found, largely due to increased risk factors in those populations in recent decades. What’s more, around half of people living with hypertension are unaware of their condition, putting them at risk of avoidable medical complications and death.
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World #SaltAwarenessWeek / Wereld Zout Bewustwordingsweek 2026
#WHA79 79th World Health Assembly
The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the forum through which the World Health Organization (WHO) is governed by its 193 member states, it is the world’s highest health policy setting body and is composed of health ministers from member states.
The members of the WHA generally meet every year in May in Geneva, Switzerland, at the Palace of Nations, the location of WHO Headquarters. The main tasks of the WHA are to decide major policy questions, as well as to approve the WHO work programme and budget and elect its Director-General (every fifth year) and annually to elect ten members to renew part of its executive board. Its main functions are to determine the policies of the Organization, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. The Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly (WHA79) takes place in Geneva, Switzerland from 18 to 23 May 2026, bringing together delegations from WHO Member States to set global health policy and advance the Organization’s strategic priorities. It will build upon the momentum of the last year’s 78th World Health Assembly, which adopted the Global Action Plan on Climate Change and Health, an updated road map for an enhanced global response to the adverse health effects of air pollution, and the elevation of climate change as the first strategic objective of WHO’s Fourteenth General Programme of Work (GPW14, 2025–2028). Looking forward to COP31, co-hosted by Türkiye and Australia, this Assembly offers an opportunity for the global climate and health community to convene and sustain the political momentum secured at WHA78.
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Klimaatverandering bedreigt ook de volksgezondheid, waarschuwen experts
Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in 2026
In May 2026, an epidemic of Ebola was reported in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), it is the 17th Ebola outbreak in DRC and only five months after the end of the previous outbreak.
Imported cases from Ituri have been reported in North Kivu Province, as well as in Uganda’s capital city of Kampala. A case in South Kivu was also reported to have been imported from Tshopo province on 21 May. The epidemic is caused by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus, which may complicate response efforts as existing Ebola treatments were created for a different strain, the Zaire ebolavirus. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 16 May 2026. There have been more then 3000 confirmed deaths in D.R. Congo (02-09-2026). Poor healthcare infrastructure in the region and an ongoing armed conflict hinder detection, treatment and prevention of the disease; it is considered likely that the true scale of the outbreak could considerably exceed the confirmed numbers.
Ebola disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
Kenyan court blocks Trump admin from dumping Ebola-exposed Americans there
Current information about Ebola – RIVM
‘Als het zo doorgaat, wordt dit de grootste ebola-uitbraak ooit’
Africa CDC and WHO call for urgent, community-led action to contain Ebola in the DRC
Cockroach Janta Party / Kakkerlak Volkspartij – founded
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP; lit. ‘Cockroach People’s Party‘) is an Indian satirical political movement founded on 16 May 2026 by Abhijeet Dipke, a political communications strategist who formerly worked with the Aam Aadmi Party.
During a Supreme Court hearing concerning fake professional degrees and institutional criticism, CJP emerged in response to remarks made by the incumbent Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, on 15 May 2026, in which he criticized fraudulent credentials by drawing an analogy that compared certain confrontational activists and unemployed youth to “cockroaches” and “parasites of society”, an analogy that sparked immediate national outrage and led to the creation of the satirical protest movement. The name is a wordplay parodying the ruling party in India, the Bharatiya Janata Party. Within days of its founding, the movement garnered over 350,000 sign-ups and over 20 million followers on Instagram. The movement has also engaged in offline activities, with volunteers participating in protests and clean-up drives dressed in cockroach costumes. Though the movement is not registered as a political party with the Election Commission of India, it campaigns against broader societal, economic, and political issues affecting the Indian youth.
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Voice of the Lazy & Unemployed
India has a new political superstar – a cockroach
India ‘cockroach’ activist Sonam Wangchuk ends hunger strike as protests spread
2026-05-16, Lief dagboek
Zaterdag; Wat eten we vandaag?; Sponsor een extreemrechtse demonstrant; AH belastingontduiking; Internetprivacy; Love a Tree Day; Dag van de Coeliakie / Glutenintolerantie; Dag van het Licht; Day of Living Together in Peace; Wear Purple for Peace Day.
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Dag van de Coeliakie / Glutenintolerantie / Coeliac Disease Awareness Day 2026
De Europese organisaties die aangesloten zijn bij de Association of European Coeliac Societies (AOECS) organiseren gedurende de maand mei workshops en voorlichtingsbijeenkomsten waarin extra aandacht gevraagd wordt voor coeliakie en NCGS (Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity).
Iemand met coeliakie (glutenintolerantie) kan niet tegen gluten. Gluten is een eiwit dat van nature voorkomt in tarwe (waaronder spelt), rogge en gerst (gort). Gluten zit in brood, crackers, pizza, pasta, paneermeel, koek, cake en taart. Het zit ook verstopt in de ingrediënten van soepen (bindmiddel, vermicelli of vlees), in sauzen, sommige snoepjes, ijssoorten en bier. Overstappen op producten van en met haver is geen optie want haver is vaak gecontamineerd (besmet) en daardoor niet zonder meer veilig te gebruiken in een glutenvrij dieet. Glutenvrij eten kan dan wel populair zijn als gezondheidsdieet maar voor mensen met coeliakie en NCGS is het geen hype, het is gewoon medisch noodzakelijk! Het doel van International Coeliac Day is coeliakie extra onder de aandacht te brengen.