Wed 13 October 2021: According to the World Bank’s president, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a “tragic reversal” in development and pushed debt levels in poor countries to new highs. The bank’s president, David Malpass, warned that the virus had increased the gap between rich and poor countries, setting back progress by years, if not […]
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Tue 12 October 2021: The government of France has announced that plastic packaging would be banned on roughly 30 fruits and vegetables starting in January 2022. The initiative is part of a waste-reduction law that will take effect next year. In France, around 37% of fruits and vegetables are sold in plastic packaging. According to […]
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Fri 08 October 2021: On Friday, journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia were given the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to promote freedom of expression in their respective nations. “Ms. Ressa and Mr. Muratov are receiving the Peace Prize for their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the […]
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Thu 07 October 2021: Global food prices rose for the second month in a row in September, reaching their highest monthly average since October 2011, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The FAO Food Price Index averaged 130 points in September, up 1.5 points or 1.2 percent from August, due to tighter […]
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Thu 07 October 2021: The world’s coral reefs are under attack by climate change and more will disappear if oceans keep warming, according to a report released Tuesday. The study by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), a UN-supported global data network, showed that 14 percent of the world’s coral on reefs was already […]
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Mon 04 October 2021: According to an investigation published Sunday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, more than a dozen heads of state and government, including Jordan’s king and the Czech prime minister, have amassed millions in secret offshore holdings (ICIJ). The “Pandora Papers” investigation, which has enlisted the help of 600 journalists from […]
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Sun 03 October 2021: The Lorenzo Natali Media Prize has awarded the top prize to a compelling report that exposes forced marriages and sexual exploitation of Rohingya women. The awards, which are organized by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), honor journalists who have done outstanding work on subjects like democracy, human […]
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Sat 02 October 2021: Main donors the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Canada as well as the European Union, on Friday called for “full commitment” from the World Health Organization to prevent a repeat of rapes and sexual abuse allegedly committed by its workers sent to fight Ebola in DR Congo. “We expect […]
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Sat 02 October 2021: According to Anatoly Kochnev, a biologist at the Magadan Institute for Biological Problems of the North under the Russian Academy of Sciences, the number of conflicts between polar bears and people has increased in recent years as climate change forces the animals to move closer to human settlements in search of […]
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Wed 29 September 2021: Greta Thunberg, a climate activist, spoke out against the ‘blah, blah, blah’ of long unending climate negotiations over decades. She was speaking in Italy at a climate conference. “Thirty years of blah, blah, blah,” Thunberg told the opening session of a Youth4Climate event on Tuesday. Thousands of young activists from more […]
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