The global average temperature is now 1.1°C higher than at the beginning of last century. Higher temperatures create, in some parts of the world, drier conditions, increasing the likelihood and intensity of wildfires, and megafires.
Does Africa’s Food Future Really Lie with Young Farmers?
Human Wrongs Watch
– Africa will starve or survive on expensive food imports because it is not growing new farmers, research shows. And the challenge remains among researchers, policy makers, public and private sector actors to get African youth interested in agriculture on a continent where a growing number of people go to bed hungry every night.
Number of Fires in Brazilian Amazon Increased 30% in 2019
Human Wrongs Watch
As is currently occurring in Australia, the jump in the number of fires in Brazil’s huge tropical forest region last August sparked international alarm.
Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil, Brazil August 17, 2019. | Photo: Reuters (photo posted here from teleSUR).
Order!
Human Wrongs Watch
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza*
On the 75th anniversary of United Nations, building a new world order has become an urgent matter.

Human Extinction Now Imminent and Inevitable? A Report on the State of Planet Earth
Human Wrongs Watch
By Robert J. Burrowes*
There is a significant body of evidence that human extinction is now imminent; that is, it will occur within the next few years and possibly this year: 2020.

Robert J. Burrowes,
There is also a significant body of evidence that human extinction is now inevitable; that is, it cannot be prevented no matter what we do.
There are at least four distinct paths to imminent (that is, within five years) human extinction: nuclear war (possibly started regionally), biodiversity collapse (already well advanced and teetering on the brink), the deployment of 5G (commenced recently) and the climate catastrophe.