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By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK | 26 February 2024 (IDN) — Environmentalists are worried. Plastics, tons of it, are being produced annually, but 70 percent of it ends up in landfills or is incinerated.…
By Jutta Wolf
BERLIN | 19 February 2024 (IDN) — While human migration continues to stir up emotions, the world’s migratory species that undertake astonishing journeys between ecosystems, often through air, land, and water—increasingly damaged by unsustainable human activities—remain out of focus.…
By Rita Joshi
BONN | SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan | 12 February 2024 (IDN) — Unsustainable human activities are jeopardizing the future of migratory species, warns the first-ever State of the World’s Migratory Species report. Migratory species play an essential role in maintaining the world’s ecosystems, and provide vital benefits, by pollinating plants, transporting key nutrients, preying on pests, and helping to store carbon.…
By Rafiqul Islam Montu
SHYAMNAGAR (SATKHIRA), Bangladesh | 11 February 2024 (IDN) — The new variety of paddy is ‘Charulata’. This paddy is salinity tolerant, can withstand normal winds, and yields well without fertilisers and pesticides. It is effortless to save seeds from this paddy. Due to these reasons, ‘Charulata’ paddy is spreading quickly from one farmer to another. Many people are now planting this paddy. This rice seed has been extended to many more farmers in the last season. The yield has also been good. (P31) Japanese | Korean | Portuguese | Spanish | Turkish…
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ナリンティップさんは看護師として１３年の経験を持ち、３歳と５歳の２児の母親でもある。夫は４０歳で、ほとんどの時間を画面を見て過ごすユーチューバーだ。ナリンティップさんにとっては、インターネット漬けの夫の生活は心配の種で、子どもたちが夫の轍を踏むのではないかと気が気ではない。
彼女は子どもたちを携帯電話から遠ざけたかった。彼女は、携帯電話中毒の子どもは発育が遅く、長時間集中したり注意したりすることができないことをよく知っていた。…
By Volker Boege*
Toda Peace Institute issued this article, which is being republished with their permission.
BRISBANE, Australia | 4 January 2024 (IDN) — At the closing plenary of COP28, Anne Rasmussen from Samoa, the lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS), expressed her disappointment about the conference’s outcome in no uncertain terms: “We have made an incremental advancement over business as usual when what we really needed is an exponential step change in our actions”.…
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ベトナム南部のメコンデルタは長年にわたって米の穀倉地帯であり、今日では２０００万人以上の食料源となっている。しかし、気候変動による干ばつや河川水の塩分濃度上昇が、食糧安全保障を脅かしている。
メコン川は中国に源を発し、中国、ミャンマー、タイ、ラオス、カンボジア、ベトナムのアジア６カ国を流れて東シナ海に注ぐ。今日、主要な米輸出国であるベトナムは、主にメコン川に依存して稲作を行っている。…
By Arul Louis
UNITED NATIONS | 27 December 2023 (IDN) — While attention has been focused on greenhouse gas emissions from transportation and power generation, agriculture is only now getting due attention as a factor in climate change even as hunger stalks hundreds of millions and the global population is set to rise.…
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS | 13 December 2023 (IDN) — When the much-ballyhooed climate change “conference of parties” —COP28—concluded on December 12 in the bustling Emirati city of Dubai, it reflected an old Greek proverb: the mountain that laboured to produce a mouse.…
By Franz Baumann
This article was issued by Meer and is being republished with the author’s permission.
NEW YORK | 11 December 2023 (IDN) — A Freudian Slip is a revealing blunder: saying what one really thinks rather than what is expected, polite, or politically correct. …
