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23/08/2019
Relentless Sequence of Disasters in Asia-Pacific ‘Sign of Things to Come’, Cautions UN Regional Body
Changing patterns and worsening impacts of natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific, coupled with environmental degradation and climate change, are not only making efforts to predict such catastrophes more difficult, but are also a “sign of things to come”, the United Nations development arm in the region has warned.*
23/08/2019
Our Vanishing World: Glaciers
Human Wrongs Watch
By Robert J. Burrowes*
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 23 August 2019 — Something is causing the worlds glaciers and mountain ice fields to melt. And, despite your first thought, it is not the ongoing climate catastrophe.
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It does not matter where on Earth the glaciers and mountain ice fields are located, they are all melting. Moreover, the projected timeframe for some of them to disappear altogether is ‘imminently’; that is, within years.
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23/08/2019
How to Bring the Indus Delta Back to Life – Give it Water
Human Wrongs Watch
– Gulab Shah, 45, is having sleepless nights. He and his family are worried about their imminent migration from their village in Jhaloo to a major city in Pakistan, thanks to the continued ingress of sea water inland.
Farmers on the Indus River Delta. Over the years the water has dried up and sea has ingressed inland. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS
“That is all that I and my brothers discuss day and night,” he told IPS over telephone from his village which lies near Kharo Chan, in Sindh province’s Thatta district.
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23/08/2019
The Difficult Relationships Between Iran And USA – Who Is Looking For, or to Whom a War Is Convenient?
Human Wrongs Watch
By Fernando Ayala*
21 August 2019 (Wall Street International)* — The theocratic revolution of 1978 led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini which ended the monarchy and dictatorship of the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, had several consequences on the political map of the Middle East.
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A street in Iran | Photo from Wall Street International.
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