Archive for October 27th, 2022

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27/10/2022

Will The Lettuce Outlast All This?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal

MADRID, Oct 27 2022 (IPS)* – No. No lettuce, no matter how British it may be, could outlast such a steady depletion of the very foundation of life.

One third of all plastic waste ends up in soils or freshwater. Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, known as microplastics, and these break down further into nanoparticles. Credit: UN Environment

Now, new facts about such depletion come to add to the already reported ones regarding the unstopped, man-made dangers threatening the present and future of indispensable natural resources.

These are some of the biggest reasons explaining how the web of life is unrelentlessly agonising:

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27/10/2022

Heatwaves to Impact Almost Every Child on Earth by 2050: UNICEF

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Heatwaves have become an unavoidable health hazard for many nations, but new data indicates that they are set to affect virtually every child on earth by 2050, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, warned on Tuesday [].

Children play with the spray from a rehabilitated water pump in a displaced camp in Ibb, Yemen.
© UNICEF/Gabreez | Children play with the spray from a rehabilitated water pump in a displaced camp in Ibb, Yemen.

Today, at least half a billion youngsters are already exposed to a high number of heatwaves, placing them on the front lines of climate change, the UN agency noted.By the middle of this century, moreover, it estimates that more than two billion children will be exposed to “more frequent, longer lasting, and more severe” heatwaves.

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