Credit: United Nations By Daryl G. KimballWASHINGTON DC, Jul 1 2020 (IPS) Seventy-five years ago, on July 16, the United States detonated the world’s first nuclear weapons test explosion in the New Mexican desert. Just three weeks later, U.S. Air Force B-29 bombers executed surprise atomic bomb attacks on the […]
Read MoreJun 24, 2020 In the News India COVID19: Impact on rural people, migrant workers in India (Daijiworld.com) COVID-19 Crises and Migration Daijiworld.com (India) published an article on how the pandemic is affecting migrant workers, farmers, and those in rural communities. In some states like Bihar, this income forms as much as one-third […]
Read MoreOn June 30 the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant in France stops operating. It was connected to the grid in 1977, but by the end of 2019 Unit 2 alone supplied 217,035 GWh of clean energy. Assuming the reactor prevented France from adopting coal power like its neighbor Germany, Fessenheim […]
Read MoreJun 25, 2020 In the News India Obesity: America’s number one export? (The Diplomat) Poverty The Diplomat (India) published an op-ed by M Niaz Asadullah and Research Fellow Kalyani Raghunathan stressed that women who make up much of “Vulnerable employment,” have been hit the hardest during the pandemic. Many women are at risk of a permanent ex…
Read MoreA boat rests on the shores of Fiji. Credit: Unsplash / Nicolas Weldingh By Armida Salsiah AlisjahbanaBANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 30 2020 (IPS) Developing countries of Asia and the Pacific are experiencing unbalanced tolls of the COVID-19 pandemic. Grim milestones in infections and deaths have left countless devastated. Yet, we must […]
Read MorePara astronom telah berhasil mendeteksi sebanyak 958.963 asteroid atau planet minor di Tata Surya, tepat tiga hari menjelang Hari Asteroid Internasional yang jatuh setiap 30 Juni. “Pada 27 Juni 2020 sudah ditemukan …
Read MorePilkada serentak 2020 akan menjadi tantangan tersendiri bagi para kepala daerah, KPU, Kemendagri
Read MoreCountry: World Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies This study calls on governments and disaster agencies to counter the lack of attention, systems and adequate investment in child protection and to recognize the consequences of disasters for children.
Read MoreThe effects of some forms of chemical poisoning acquired from the environment can pass down three generations. At least in fish. Small fish that get exposed even to low levels of synthetic endocrine-disrupting chemicals that have become common in many freshwater sources can end up passing on the genetic impacts […]
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