ANTARA – Hingga saat ini, kondisi asap kabut kian pekat menyelimuti Kota Pontianak, Kalimantan Barat. Untuk itu, Dinas Kesehatan Kota Pontianak menyediakan enam unit rumah oksigen sebagai antisipasi dampak warga yang …

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Michael Lim Mah HuiKUALA LUMPUR and PENANG, Sep 17 2019 (IPS) Rapid financial globalization is due not only to financial innovations, but also to choices made by national policymakers, often with naïve expectations, trusting promoters’ promises of steady net inflows of financial resources. Rapid financialization […]

One of the facts of conservation is that the more prosperous a society is, the more likely it is to protect its natural environment. Conversely, less developed nations are prone to exploit and destroy theirs in their drive for more prosperity. The problem, of course, is that much, if not most, […]

Women rice farmers in a field, Accra, Ghana. Through the African Development Bank’s Feed Africa project, 19 million people were provided with improved agricultural technologies, and almost 1.54 billion dollars was approved in 2018 to transform agriculture on the continent. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS By Nalisha Adams and Busani BafanaJOHANNESBURG, South […]

Presiden Joko Widodo menegur pemerintah daerah di Provinsi Riau yang dinilai tidak mendukung upaya penanganan kebakaran hutan dan lahan (karhutla) sehingga kebakaran meluas hingga puluhan ribu hektare dan mengakibatkan kabut asap …