Wed 18 December 2024: Apple “could not have been unaware” that its supply chain was contaminated with “blood minerals,” a lawyer representing the Democratic Republic of Congo said Tuesday. The trial in the capital Kinshasa marks the first in a series of legal actions against major corporations. Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Partners said Apple was chosen as […]
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Tue 17 December 2024: The global drowning death rate has dropped 38% since 2000, but over 7.2 million people, mostly children, could still die by 2050 if current trends continue, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday. In the first-ever WHO report on drowning prevention, the UN organization hailed the decline in the global drowning death rate as […]
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Sun 15 December 2024: The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, caught in a whirlpool in Antarctica, has broken free and is flowing northward. The British Antarctic Survey announced that the iceberg has drifted northward. Dr. Andrew Meijers, a marine scientist and researcher with the organization, noted that it is exciting that A23a is on the move […]
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Mon 09 December 2024: Delhi’s air pollution is so bad that it’s sometimes hard to discern anything more than a few metres in front of you. And it is affecting people’s health. Breathing is uncomfortable, and one of us (Komali) developed rashes and red eyes on a recent trip to the city. Our experiences are […]
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Sat 07 December 2024: The Arctic Ocean could experience its first “ice-free” day as early as 2027, according to a new study, signaling a profound shift in the planet’s climate. Even under the most optimistic scenarios, this “ominous milestone for the planet,” is inevitable within the next two decades, researchers caution in the study published in Nature Communications on Monday. “The […]
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Wed 04 December 2024: European countries have agreed to downgrade the protection status of wolves due to their growing number and effect on agriculture and farming livestock. The 49 member states of the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats agreed to lower the wolf’s protection status from “strictly protected” to […]
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Sun 01 December 2024: Professor Lisa Levin, a faculty member at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, highlighted that rising ocean temperatures due to global warming are forcing marine species to migrate toward colder regions, significantly altering ocean ecosystems. According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), […]
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Fri 29 November 2024: As the world races to meet net-zero targets, emissions from all industrial sectors must be reduced more urgently than ever. Agriculture is an important area of focus as it contributes up to 22% of global greenhouse gas emissions. One approach to decarbonising agriculture involves integrating solar panels – or photovoltaics (PVs) – into […]
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Fri 29 November 2024: An Australian-led international research has found that over 1.5 million deaths globally every year were linked to the health impacts of air pollution caused by landscape fires. According to the research published on Thursday by Monash University in Melbourne, 1.53 million deaths per year between 2000 and 2019 were attributable to […]
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Thu 28 November 2024: Indonesian rescuers are searching for passengers trapped in a minibus buried in mud after flash floods and landslides hit several locations in North Sumatra province, killing at least 27, an official said on Thursday. Torrential rain in the province since last week had caused flash floods and landslides in four different […]
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