Nuclear Testing, Never Again

1 Juli 2020 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 Comment

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 […]

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COVID19: Impact on rural people, migrant workers in India (Daijiworld.com)

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Jun 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 […]

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DOL Issues Proposed Rule on ESG Investing for ERISA Plans

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A safe and profitable nuclear plant is closing in France. Why?

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On 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 […]

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Obesity: America’s number one export? (The Diplomat) 

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Jun 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…

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Sustainable Tourism and Fisheries Key to Growth in Post-COVID Pacific

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A 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 […]

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Hari Asteroid Internasional, 958.963 planet minor telah terdeteksi

30 Juni 2020 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 Comment

Para 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 …

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Apkasi optimistis pilkada serentak bisa berjalan sukses di tengah pandemi Covid-19

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Pilkada serentak 2020 akan menjadi tantangan tersendiri bagi para kepala daerah, KPU, Kemendagri

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World: Urgent call to enhance laws and regulations to protect children in disasters

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Country: 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.

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Waterborne toxic pollutants can affect fish for generations

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The 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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