Tropical Cyclone Nalgae over 1,100km in diameter and affecting the majority of the Philippines

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Country: Philippines Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Several hundreds of thousands of people are affected, most severely in Regions 5, 6, 8, 12 and BARMM, with at least 170,000 people taking temporary shelter at evacuation centres.

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Artisanal Miners Ruining Already Diminishing Forests in Zimbabwe

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Artisanal miners are cutting down trees to process gold and climate change experts are concerned about the forests. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS By Jeffrey MoyoMAZOWE, Zimbabwe, Oct 29 2022 (IPS) With homemade tents scattered about, hordes of artisanal gold miners throng parts of Mazowe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central Province, where […]

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Malaysia is braced for major floods. So why is it holding an election?

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The Malaysian government’s insistence on holding a snap general election next month during a monsoon season that’s expected to bring devastating floods risks putting politics above people’s lives, opposition lawmakers and political analysts say.

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FAO’s Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) mark 20th anniversary

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) flagship programme of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)   today celebrated its 20th anniversary, highlighting its role in promoting sustainable agriculture and revitalizing the rural communities who are responsible for feeding a significant proportion of the earth’s population. The […]

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ECW’s Yasmine Sherif Asks Donors to Redouble Efforts for DRC Displaced Children

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ECW director Yasmine Sherif announced US$2 million in new funding for children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, with conflicts, displacements, the climate crisis, COVID-19, and other epidemics such as Ebola disrupting development gains, as many as 3.2 million children (aged 6-11) are out of school, so even more […]

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Experts stress for water and food security (BOL News) 

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Experts stress for water and food security (BOL News)  Oct 28, 2022 Oct 27, 2022 pfowlkes Fri, 10/28/2022 – 12:50 Experts stress for water and food security (BOL News)  Experts stress for water and food security (BOL News)  Pakistan In the News Food Security Food Systems Water BOL News (Pakistan) reports […]

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Revolutionising European rail vital in driving green transition amid energy crisis

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While the climate agenda in Europe has gained significant momentum in recent years, fossil fuels are making a dramatic comeback. With European energy markets in a downward spiral since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany’s Red-Green dominated coalition swiftly revived four coal plants to secure electricity supply during the winter, while […]

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IOM says 96,000 Haitians displaced by recent gang violence in capital

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Country: Haiti Source: International Organization for Migration An additional 17,000 individuals remain displaced as a result of the worst earthquake in a decade, which devastated the country’s southern regions in August 2021.

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Illumina/Grail—The Dawn of a New Era for Global Merger Control?

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The European Commission’s (EC) decision to block Illumina’s acquisition of Grail marks the dawn of a new era for acquisitions of startups with innovation potential. This case involved many “firsts”: It is the first time that the EC prohibited the acquisition of a U.S. startup with no revenues in the […]

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Could ‘half-Earth’ conservation save orangutans?

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Photo: Pixabay/e-smile  Half-Earth is a proposal by the late naturalist and “father of biodiversity”, EO Wilson. In its original context, it proposes that half of the Earth’s surface should be designated a human-free nature reserve to preserve biodiversity. The proposal of course raises some pretty big questions. What happens to the […]

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