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Vegetable oils and dairy products push FAO Food Price Index higher
A rice field in Cambodia. ©FAO/Tang Chhin Sothy
Rome, 3 February 2022 (FAO)* – The gauge for world food prices went up in January, largely catalysed by supply-side constraints for vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 3 February 2022 reported.
WEST POKOT COUNTY, SAMBURU COUNTY, Kenya, 3 February 2022 (UNFPA)* – There are two rainy seasons in Kenya: The long rains in March, April and May and the short rains in October, November and December.
2 February 2022 (UN News)* — The massive volcanic eruption and tsunami in Tonga followed by another earthquake and aftershocks just days afterwards, has highlighted once again the vulnerability of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), a meeting this week convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has heard.
(UN News)* — A new UN partnership announced on Wednesday [2 February 2022] aims to raise awareness about the environmental and health impacts of microplastics in cigarette butts, the most discarded waste item worldwide.
Young mangrove plants, Puttalam Lagoon, Sri Lanka. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPS
Specifically, peatlands alone store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests combined. However, when drained and destroyed, wetlands emit vast amounts of carbon, adds the UN on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day, marked 2 February.
In Raposos, a Brazilian city of 16,500 inhabitants, two-thirds of the homes were flooded by the rising waters of the Das Velhas River. The city grew on both banks of the river, between hills, which led to recurrent flooding. CREDIT: Das Velas River CBH
A New Freely Downloadable Book
John Scales Avery
I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses worrying recent developments in the Antarctic and the Arctic, which warn us of catastrophic consequences if we neglect urgent climate action.
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Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
Diagonal cracks have been observed in Antarctica’s enormous Thwaites Glacier, and scientists fear that it might shatter into small pieces like a windscreen.
Robert J. Burrowes
Governments around the world continue to impose an expanding sequence of measures to curtail rights and freedoms ostensibly to tackle a ‘virus’.
In response, public demonstrations against these government measures are also ongoing and expanding with truck convoys the latest manifestation of this form of protest.
Unfortunately, while activists mistake these popular mobilizations for effective resistance, the Global Elite’s coup d’état against humanity gathers pace.
Concealed beneath the ‘virus’/‘vaccine’ narrative, and marketed by the World Economic Forum as the ‘Great Reset’, this coup is designed to utterly transform human society and even human life.
The Republican Party has become irresponsible
27 January 2022 (Wall Street International)* —vIn recent years, and especially since Donald Trump’s term as president, the Republican party has become irresponsible. Republican Senators and members of the House of Representatives no longer act to promote whatever is best for their country and the planet. Instead, they block whatever the Democratic Party tries to achieve.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 