The Barilla Foundation New Double Pyramid includes seven cultural pyramids including ones for specific regions like South Asia where these rice workers come from. Other cultural regions include Latin America, East Asia, Nordic and Canada, USA, Mediterranean and Africa. Credit: Deepak Kumar / Unsplash By Alison KentishNEW YORK, Apr 12 2021 (IPS) Following an extensive
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12 April 2021
Barilla Foundation Brings Health and Climate Together in New Double Pyramid
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12 April 2021
Native communities confront painful choice: move away, or succumb to rising waters?
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Throughout Indian Country, where cultures are tied to land and water, plans to relocate are under way as the climate crisis worsens The climate emergency is here. The media needs to act like it At any moment, on any school day, the entire future of the Quileute Tribe is at risk. The Quileute tribal school
12 April 2021
Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline review – an intensifying crisis
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Ade Adepitan travels to the Pacific to see how the climate emergency is shrinking the land and killing the future – and to ask what, if anything can be done to halt the destruction Ade Adepitan addresses what he calls “the elephant in the room” fairly early on in his new three-part series, Climate Change:
9 April 2021
The world won’t be greener until it’s fairer | Simone Tagliapietra
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Action on the climate crisis must come with a social contract to protect the poor and vulnerable As a climate policy researcher, I am often asked: what is the biggest obstacle to decarbonisation? My answer has changed profoundly over the last couple of years. I used to point to the lack of affordable green technologies
9 April 2021
Palestinians are Suffering from Hunger, Poverty, Conflict & a Global Pandemic
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When the previous US administration pulled its aid, the impact was enormous on the Palestinian people. As a result, funding for hospitals in East Jerusalem dropped, which would then go on to affect Palestinians during the pandemic. Photo by Ahmed Abu Hameeda on Unsplash By Samira SadequeUNITED NATIONS, Apr 9 2021 (IPS) The Trump administration’s
8 April 2021
Marine species increasingly can’t live at equator due to global heating
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Study suggests it is already too warm in tropics for some species to survive Global heating has made the ocean around the equator less rich in wildlife, with conditions likely already too hot for some species to survive, according to a new study. Analysis of the changing locations of almost 50,000 marine species between 1955
7 April 2021
Was Trump’s Family-Separation Policy Torture?
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Central American mother and daughter reunited at U.S. airport. Credit: Anonymous. By Peter CostantiniSEATTLE , Apr 7 2021 (IPS) “A crime against humanity” and “a disgrace to our great country”: that’s how 99-year-old Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nazis at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, characterized the Donald Trump administration’s coercive separation of
7 April 2021
Plans for expansion of Leeds Bradford airport put on hold
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Climate campaigners say they have been told government is preventing the granting of planning permission The expansion of Leeds Bradford airport has been put on hold after the government paused plans to build a new terminal building on the green belt. The plans were given conditional approval by Leeds city council in February despite widespread
7 April 2021
Transforming Global Food SystemsJose Graziano da Silva on the Path to Zero Hunger
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By Timothy A. WiseCAMBRIDGE MA, Apr 6 2021 (IPS) The battle for the future of food has grown contentious, and José Graziano da Silva has become a lightning rod for criticism. In 2014, as Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), he presided over the institution’s first International Agroecology Symposium, opening
5 April 2021
Mexico Looks to the Heavens for a Solution to Its Water Crisis
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Gabino Martínez cleans the “Tláloc”, the tank that filters dust from the rainwater collection system in his home in the Tehuixtitla neighborhood in the Xochimilco district in southern Mexico City. During the May to November rainy season local residents collect the water they use for washing, bathing and cooking, due to the lack of access