A new report titled For cities, by cities by C40 highlights key lessons for urban decision-makers from the recent IPCC findings, providing a bold agenda for effective climate action. The document contains what every urban decisionmaker needs to know.  It starts from the ambitious yet realistic warming of 1.5°C premise, […]

Event Post September 26, 2019 How do we estimate the consequences of global inaction on genetic diversity conservation, exchange, and use? Luigi Guarino David Spielman Keith Wiebe Securing billions of dollars in funding and keeping momentum behind essential crop diversity efforts – it’s complicated. A discussion.

Source: International Committee of the Red Cross Country: Somalia Sima is said to have started in 2011, triggering a famine that killed 250,000 people. While the world has largely moved on, the drought never ended, but ebbed and flowed in severity. Only the most vicious of droughts get a name. […]

At least 19 people have died and hundreds were injured after an earthquake hit Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, officials said. The tremor tore through roads and shook buildings.

While rabies continues to present a threat to human health, in many parts of Asia livestock are also at risk of exposure and greater efforts are needed to eradicate the disease, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said today. In Asia, as in most parts of […]