Fri 14 October 2022: The global hunger situation is “undeniably grim” amid conflicts, climate issues and the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report said on Thursday. “The overlapping crises facing the world are exposing the weaknesses of food systems, from global to local, and highlighting the vulnerability of populations around the world […]
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Thu 13 October 2022: WWF calls for urgent action as landmark report on wildlife populations shows ‘terrifying’ decline across the world. The world’s wildlife populations have suffered a “devastating” decline in the past 50 years as humans have cleared forests and polluted the air, land and sea, according to World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) latest Living […]
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Tue 11 October 2022: Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said Monday. Heatwaves are predicted to “exceed human physiological and social limits” in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and south and southwest Asia, […]
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Tue 11 October 2022: New Zealand intends to be the first country to charge farmers for the greenhouse gas emissions caused by their agricultural activities. The program was announced on Tuesday, October 11, by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her minister. According to the newly implemented scheme, farmers will be responsible for paying for all […]
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Tue 11 October 2022: Kuwait has unveiled plans to develop a completely carbon-free green city, to be named XZERO, Al-Seyassah has reported. It is planned to be the largest of its kind in the world, and the first in the Middle East. The construction of the eco-city is said to be in line with the strategy set […]
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Sun 09 October 2022: In November, heads of state, ministers, journalists and activists will gather in Egypt’s Red Sea Resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh for the UN climate change summit, COP27. There has been widespread concern about the role civil society will play. “When it’s hosted in a country like Egypt, where a serious human […]
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Sat 08 October 2022: Pakistan is on the verge of a public health disaster after the devastating floods, the UN secretary-general warned on Friday, as the world body now seeks $816 million to help the South Asian nation, a surge of $656 million from the initial appeal. The devastation caused by unprecedented rains and floods in Pakistan […]
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Sat 08 October 2022: Brazil’s Amazon region has experienced record-breaking deforestation in September, continuing a trend that has gotten worse under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. In September, 1,455 square kilometers (562 square miles) of rainforest were cleared, according to satellite data from INPE, a Brazilian space research organization. That surpasses the September 2019 record in […]
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Sat 08 October 2022: After becoming stranded on a beach in the distant Chatham Islands, about 215 pilot whales died. A DOC spokesperson said on Saturday that they had received a report of about 250 whales beached in the northwest corner of Chatham Island (Rkohu/Wharekauri), which is located 840 kilometers east of the mainland of […]
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Thu 06 October 2022: Billionaire philanthropist, Bill Gates, has backed the Middle East to be “part of the solution” to pressing environmental challenges facing the world. The Microsoft co-founder praised the UAE for its ambitious efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, highlighting the significant progress being made on the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant. “This […]
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