Sustainability-related jobs keep on evolving

12 Oktober 2022 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 Comment

Photo: Pixabay/diogoascenso The job market is highly competitive and complex with seemingly endless job openings. This can pose challenges for young professionals seeking to work in sustainability-related fields. The professional sustainability industry is booming, which has its pros and cons. Notably, the fact that it isn’t fully formed can create […]

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World: Only seven per cent of UN appeals for hunger relief being funded as famine looms

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Countries: Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Mozambique, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, World, Yemen, Zimbabwe Source: Action Against Hunger USA According to the new report by Action Against Hunger, countries that experienced the greatest hunger crises actually received less hunger funding than countries with half […]

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North Korea says missile tests are practice for ‘tactical nuclear strikes’ on South Korea

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North Korean state media has broken its silence over the country’s recent spate of missile tests, claiming they were part of a series of simulated procedures intended to demonstrate its readiness to fire tactical nuclear warheads at potential targets in South Korea.

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FLR Days: gearing up a Forest and Landscape Restoration movement in Asia

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With an aim to share knowledge and improve regional coordination and partnerships for scaling up forest and landscape restoration (FLR), delegates from several countries in the region and experts joined the hybrid FLR Days event starting from 10 October, in Bangkok, Thailand.  Government representatives from Bangladesh, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, […]

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Litigation Minute: Earn-Out Provisions

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What You Need to Know in a Minute or Less An earn-out provision is a common provision in an acquisition agreement that makes a portion of the purchase price contingent on satisfaction of certain post-closing targets or other metrics. In a minute or less, here is what you need to […]

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Scientists gain a better understanding of how ecosystems become unstable

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Photo: Pixabay/cocoparisienne Ecosystems are exceedingly complex systems wherein even relatively minor changes can trigger large-scale consequences. For all that, however, only knowing two variables can help us predict the health of an ecosystem. These, according to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are the number of species and the […]

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His Zest For Mandarins Soured, Pakistani Producer Turns To Mushrooms

11 Oktober 2022 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 Comment

Clearing ground to grow vegetables-Sultan’s Kinnow orchard. Credit: Alefia Hussain/IPS By Alefia HussainLAHORE, Pakistan, Oct 11 2022 (IPS) The zesty citrus whiff from the rows of trees boasting unripe kinnow (mandarins) freshens the autumn air in late September. Two deeply tanned men clear the ground under and between the trees […]

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World: Climate change puts energy security at risk, says WMO

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Country: World Source: World Meteorological Organization “Time is not on our side, and our climate is changing before our eyes. We need a complete transformation of the global energy system,” says WMO’s secretary-general Prof. Petteri Taalas.

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Bangladesh Reaching Out To Global Partners To Transform Agriculture

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Experts from the Netherlands and Bangladesh visit the Rupsha River in Khulna, southern Bangladesh, the planned site of future fish farms. Credit: IPS/Gemcon By Mosabber HossainDHAKA, Oct 10 2022 (IPS) Bangladeshi businessman Kazi Inam Ahmed is building his dream in a village near Rupsha River in Khulna, southern Bangladesh—to develop […]

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Airstrikes on urban centres in Ukraine kill and injure scores of civilians

10 Oktober 2022 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 Comment

Country: Ukraine Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Rescue teams are evacuating people from areas that have been hit and providing first aid and emergency shelter kits. Authorities have already started reparations to water and energy networks

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