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Assessing El Niño’s impact on fisheries and aquaculture around the world
While considerable resources are invested in seasonal forecasts and early-warning systems for food security, not enough is known about El Niño’s impact on the fisheries…
Viet Nam: Facebook must cease complicity with government censorship
Facebook must immediately reverse its decision to censor posts deemed critical of the government in Viet Nam, said Amnesty International today. On 21 April, Reuters…
THL to track coronavirus in waste water
Finland is to start start sampling waste water in order to gather more data on community spread of the novel coronavirus. The National Institute for…
Coronavirus: EU Commissioner wants Africa debt relief
The European Union is spending vast sums of money fighting the COVID-19 crisis. But Jutta Urpilainen, Commissioner for International Partnerships, has told DW it’s not…
Global Report on Food Crises reveals scope of food crises as COVID-19 poses new risks to vulnerable countries
Today an international alliance of UN, governmental, and nongovernmental agencies working to address the root causes of extreme hunger have released a new edition of…
UNICEF and Microsoft launch global learning platform to help address COVID-19 education crisis
UNICEF and Microsoft Corp. today announced the expansion of a global learning platform to help children and youth affected by COVID-19 continue their education at…
Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus. On Twitter,…
Europe can reach net-zero by 2050 with 100% renewables, study shows
New modelling shows that Europe could reach climate neutrality before 2050 through a 100% renewable energy scenario which would also see solar technology generate 60%…
North pole soon to be ice free in summer
The Arctic Ocean in summer will very likely be ice free before 2050, at least temporally. The efficacy of climate-protection measures will determine how often…
Coronavirus exposes ‘weaknesses’ in health systems: G20
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed “systemic weaknesses” in global health systems, the G20 said Monday, but there was no mention of Washington’s contentious decision to…
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