By SWANApr 10 2020 (IPS-Partners) The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has announced it is “launching initiatives” to support cultural industries and cultural heritage, sectors hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. “COVID-19 has put many intangible cultural heritage practices, including rituals and ceremonies, on hold, impacting communities everywhere,” the organization stated April
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11 April 2020
Hegemony Shift in Times of COVID-19
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Wuhan City. Credit: UNESCO By Manuel ManonellesBARCELONA, Apr 10 2020 (IPS) We have long speculated on the moment when the shift of global leadership from the United States to China would take place. From Washington to Beijing for the political power, from New York to Shanghai for the economic one. It seems that we are
10 April 2020
Privatization or communalization: A multi-level analysis of changes in forest property regimes in China
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Publication date: August 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 174 Author(s): Jun He, Bereket Kebede, Adrian Martin, Nicole Gross-Camp
10 April 2020
Tolkein was right: giant trees have towering role in protecting forests
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Study highlights importance of biodiversity as part of strategy to stop planet overheating Scientists have shown to be true what JRR Tolkien only imagined in the Lord of the Rings: giant, slow-reproducing trees play an outsized role in the growth and health of old forests. In the 1930s, the writer gave his towering trees the
10 April 2020
Un and Partners Request $267.5 Million to Respond to Humanitarian Needs Arising from COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya
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By PRESS RELEASENAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 9 2020 (IPS-Partners) The Government of Kenya, the United Nations and humanitarian partners have launched today a Flash Appeal requesting $267.5 million to respond to the most immediate and critical needs of10.1 millionpeople. Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Planning, UkurYataniKanacho, said: “When times are challenging you get to know
10 April 2020
More than half of remote reefs in Coral Sea marine park suffered extreme bleaching
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Exclusive: researchers found some areas outside the bounds of the Great Barrier Reef had 90% of their shallow water corals bleached this summer More than half of the spectacular and remote coral reefs beyond the boundaries of the Great Barrier Reef suffered severe bleaching this summer, an underwater scientific expedition has found. Several reefs in
9 April 2020
COVID-19 and Hope for a Compassionate Future
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By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 9 2020 (IPS) The Coronavirus, COVID-19, makes its deadly round across the world. People fall sick and die, communities and entire nations end up in its deadly grip and try to cope with it. Everything is changing, and changing fast and we all have to deal with it together,
8 April 2020
Did you take part in Extinction Rebellion’s climate campaign? Get in touch
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A year on from the ‘climate rebellion’, we’d like to hear from those involved in the environmental movement. What are your hopes for the future? On 15 April 2019, thousands of protestors took to the streets of London to call on the government to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025. After hosting several protests
8 April 2020
Wildlife destruction ‘not a slippery slope but a series of cliff edges’
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New study finds ocean ecosystems likely to collapse in 2020s and land species in 2040s unless global warming stemmed Wildlife species will die out and natural ecosystems collapse in the near future if the climate crisis goes unchecked, scientists have warned, as new research shows that the natural world is at far greater risk from
8 April 2020
Killer of Slovak Journalist Sentenced as Rights Groups Await further Convictions
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Hundreds of thousands of people took part in protests across Slovakia in the weeks after journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova were killed, eventually forcing the resignation of the Prime Minister and Interior Minister. Credit: Ed Holt/IPS By Ed HoltBRATISLAVA, Apr 8 2020 (IPS) Journalists and rights activists have welcomed the jailing of