29/03/2021

Plastic Pollution Threatens the Mekong, a Wildlife Wonderland

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27 March 2021 (UNEP)* — Hidden in and around the muddy depths of the Mekong River is a wondrous animal world.

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Here you can find catfish that weigh up to 300 kilograms and measure almost the length of a car. You might come across a dolphin that is known to communicate with humans to coordinate fishing expeditions.

Or you could stumble upon something completely unknown: between 1997 and 2014, over 2,000 new species were discovered in the Lower Mekong Basin.

But this critical ecosystem is under immense strain from climate change, toxic farm runoff and scientists suspect, a rising tide of plastic pollution. Continue reading →

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28/03/2021

‘Everything Is Burnt to Ashes’

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Rohingya refugees who lost everything in the massive fire that tore through a camp in southern Bangladesh on Monday prepare to start over, once again. |  Español   |  عربي

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Halima lost everything in the fire that ripped through a large area of Kutupalong camp, and she still does not know the whereabouts of one of her children. © UNHCR/Amos Halder

27 March 2021 (UNHCR)* —   Halima, 37, was inside her shelter in the Kutupalong camp with her five young children when the sound of people screaming drew her outside.

“When I went out, I saw fire coming towards us,” she said.

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28/03/2021

Indigenous and Tribal Peoples ‘Best Guardians’ of Forests

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Improving tenure in Amazon basin can lower deforestation rates and biodiversity loss

Photo: ©FAO/Rosaria Martin G./FAO

Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean are the best guardians of their forests when compared to those responsible for the region’s other forests.

Santiago, Chile/Rome (FAO)* – Deforestation rates are significantly lower in Indigenous and Tribal territories where governments have formally recognized collective land rights, according to a new report launched on 25 March 2021.

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28/03/2021

Machine Learning Used as Weaponization by Adversaries

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By Fernando Velázquez*

27 March 2021 (Wall Street International)*  — As almost every new technology emerging, ML (Machine Learning) is a double-edged sword that can be used as a solution or as harm depending on the situation.

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Machine Learning can be used as a solution or as harm depending on the situation | Image from Wall Street International.

So, it is only natural to assume that adversaries will become more and more interested in learning how to attack involving ML models.

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28/03/2021

Protecting the Oceans: Why Turning Vegan Can’t Be the Only Answer

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By Will McCallum \ Greenpeace International*

During my time as an oceans campaigner at Greenpeace, I’ve sat in a tiny boat in the middle of the Indian Ocean, watching a fishing boat pull in miles of drift nets. The nets were full of tuna, but there were also dead spinner dolphins, manta rays, thresher sharks and more – a grim demonstration of devastation at sea. I’ve been right up close with some of the biggest fishing vessels in the world, watching as they haul out incomprehensible numbers of fish.

A shark is hauled into the hold of the Pedra da Grelo, a Spanish longliner targeting swordfish in the south Atlantic ocean. © Tommy Trenchard / Greenpeace
But I’ve also sat in rooms with representatives from fishing communities, people who rely on fish for their food and livelihoods, who are struggling to scratch together a living and are looking ahead at a bleak future.  There’s no simple solution to fix both.

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24/03/2021

End Vaccine Apartheid Before Millions More Die

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By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram*

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 23 2021 (IPS)* – At least 85 poor countries will not have significant access to coronavirus vaccines before 2023. Unfortunately, a year’s delay will cause an estimated 2.5 million avoidable deaths in low and lower-middle income countries. As the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General has put it, the world is at the brink of a catastrophic moral failure.

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The EU, US, UK, Switzerland, Canada and their allies continue to block the developing country proposal to temporarily suspend the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement to enable greatly increased, affordable supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, drugs, tests and equipment.

Meanwhile, 6.4 billion of the 12.5 billion vaccine doses the main producers plan to produce in 2021 have already been pre-ordered, mostly by these countries, with 13% of the global population. Continue reading →

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24/03/2021

Turkey’s Withdrawal from Women’s Protection Treaty, “a Very Worrying Step Backwards”

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(UN News)* — Turkey’s decision to withdraw from an important treaty on protecting women is “a very worrying step backwards”, a group of independent UN human rights experts said on 23 March 2021.

UNDP Turkey / Levent Kulu | Two women walk in the Taksim district of Istanbul, Turkey.

“This decision…sends a dangerous message that violence against women is not important, with the risk of encouraging perpetrators and weakening measures to prevent it”, said Dubravka Šimonović, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women.

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24/03/2021

‘Acute Hunger Set to Soar in over 20 Countries in the Coming Months without Urgent and Scaled-Up Assistance’

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ROME (FAO)*  – Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) in a new report issued on 23 March 2021.

Photo: ©FAO/Stefanie GlinskiAgong and her child in South Sudan, where over 7 million people are projected to fall into crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity.

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23/03/2021

Wastewater and Excreta an Untapped Resource for Solving Environmental Risks

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Nairobi/Stockholm, 22 March 2021 (UNEP)* – A book by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), launched on World Water Day, reports that the sanitation waste of 50% of the global population is still disposed of without having been treated – posing enormous risks to both public health and the environment.
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23/03/2021

Climate Change Is Hitting the Ocean Hard, Increasing Hazards for Hundreds of Millions of People

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World Meteorological Day celebrates the ocean, our climate and weather

World Meteorological Day 2021

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Geneva, 23 March 2021 (WMO)* – The ocean drives the world’s weather and climate and anchors the global economy and food security. Climate change is hitting the ocean hard, but also increasing hazards for hundreds of millions of people.

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