25/10/2019
An interview with UN Environment Programme’s peatlands expert Dianna Kopansky
Photo by Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR.
23 October 2019 (UN Environment)* — Tropical peatlands have been in the news recently with the very serious fires in Indonesia’s Jambi Province. Dianna Kopansky has worked extensively on tropical as well as other peatlands. She also coordinates the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) work on peatlands.
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In this interview, she tells us about the importance of peatlands and what can be done to protect them from fires.
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25/10/2019
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 22 2019 (IPS)* – Sub-Saharan African migrants who risk perilous sea crossings to Europe are often assumed to be illiterate, jobless chancers in desperate bids to flee stagnation and rampant corruption in their home countries. But a survey of some 2,000 irregular African migrants in Europe found them to be more educated than expected, while many of them were leaving behind jobs back home that paid better-than-average wages.
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25/10/2019
24 October 2019 (UN News)* — Amid growing competition for radio wave space due to new wireless technologies, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday [23 October 2019] called on governments to protect radio frequencies allocated to potentially life-saving weather forecasting services.
NASA | Hurricane Dorian as seen from the International Space Station on 2 September 2019.
Earth observation services vital to weather forecasts and long-term climate change monitoring, are having to share more and more limited bandwith, with the rollout of new communication devices, including the new 5G phone data service.
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24/10/2019
October (Wall Street International* — Ancient culture of China has made great contributions to world culture. Book of Changes is one of the most precious contributions of Chinese culture, which has exerted a great influence on Chinese philosophy, literature, historical study, as well as natural and social sciences.
The Book of Changes is the very basis of Chinese culture, the principal source of Chinese philosophy. social sciences and natural sciences. It has greatly influenced the history of Chinese civilization.
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24/10/2019
At Our Ocean Conference, FAO Director-General urges reversing “dangerous sustainability divide” in fisheries management
FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu speaks at the Our Ocean Conference in Oslo.
OSLO, 23 October 2019 (FAO)* – Serious investments in ocean sustainability will raise the amount of fish to feed the poor, helping drive progress towards the eradication of hunger which is the lynchpin for achieving the other Sustainable Development Goals, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said today [23 October 2019].
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24/10/2019
In an average southern hemisphere spring, the hole expands throughout September and mid October to a maximum extent of about 21 million square kilometres (8 million square miles), an area larger than the United States and Canada combined.
In 2019, the hole reached 16.4 million square kilometers (6.3 million square miles) on September 8, but then shrank to less than 10 million square kilometres (3.9 million square miles) for the remainder of September and the first half of October.
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23/10/2019
I. The countdown to World War Trump has begun1. As I argued in my previous September 2019 WSI article, the US approach toward Iran, coupled with NATO/EU enlargement, the 1999 war “over” Kosovo, and the deployment of US/NATO Missile Defense systems in eastern Europe, and now the Trump administration decision to dump the 1987 INF Treaty and possibly deploy war-fighting intermediate range missiles, has helped to generate a post-Cold War “insecurity-security dialectic” throughout the wider Middle East and the world in which Russia and China have reached out for closer political-economic and military ties with both Iran and Turkey—in the formation of a new Sino-Russian axis.
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23/10/2019
Photo: UNEP | Children and pregnant mothers in developing world face widespread exposure to toxic lead in paint. Photo: UNEP
Lead exposure killed more than one million people in 2017, according to data cited by WHO, which is why the UN agency and partners are this week urging countries to take action to ban lead paint.
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23/10/2019
$4 Billion Humanitarian Appeal Nearly 50 Per Cent Unfunded Heading into Final Auarter of 2019
NEW YORK (UNICEF)* – Millions of children living in areas affected by conflict and disaster are at risk because of substantial shortages in funding for lifesaving humanitarian programmes, UNICEF said today [22 October 2019].
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22/10/2019
Photo from NRC.
“The crushing effect of drought has stripped rural communities of their crops, livestock and water sources, while armed conflict closes in on their homes. We are now likely to see 2.1 million Somali people suffering from hunger by December and into 2020,” said Victor Moses, Country Director for NRC.
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 