The confinement policies put in place to address COVID have discouraged mass political gatherings, but the factors that drove the social unrest of 2019 remain and, in many ways, have been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. Credit: Carlos Vera. By Ricardo Raineri and Philippe BenoitAug 7 2020 (IPS) While COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across
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7 August 2020
As Latin America Looks to a COVID Recovery, It Will Need to Tackle its Growing Middle-Class Angst
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6 August 2020
Biodiversity Loss Could be Making Us Sick – Here’s Why
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Children need diverse microbiomes in their environment to develop healthy immune systems. Credit: Josh Calabrese on Unsplash. By External SourceAug 5 2020 (IPS) By 2050, 70% of the world’s population is expected to live in towns and cities. Urban living brings many benefits, but city dwellers worldwide are seeing a rapid increase in noncommunicable health
5 August 2020
Kenneth Hayne says Covid shows Australian politics can be more than a ‘dialogue of the deaf’
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The former high court judge urges politicians to defend their institution rather than prioritise partisan self-interest Debates about climate change and the Indigenous voice to parliament have been hijacked by sloganeering and the “peddling of false and misleading ideas”, according to the former high court justice Kenneth Hayne, who has urged Australian politicians to defend
5 August 2020
The UN General Assembly: A 75-Year Journey Towards the Future We Want
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H.E. Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, visits a school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 10 February 2020. Credit: Geremew Tigabu/UN OPGA By Tijjani Muhammad-BandeNEW YORK, Aug 4 2020 (IPS) The United Nations came into existence at a time of great despair, when the penholders of its founding
5 August 2020
Flooding could occur daily in Sydney by the end of this century because of climate change
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Human-caused sea level rise likely caused eight out of 10 floods in the region between 1970 and 2015, a study finds Flooding in localised areas around Sydney will happen almost every week by the middle of this century because of human-caused sea level rise, according to a study by scientists at the Bureau of Meteorology.
3 August 2020
‘There’s still a choice’: New Zealand’s melting glaciers show the human fingerprints of climate change
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New research has found extreme melting of the country’s glaciers in 2018 was at least ten times more likely due to human-caused global heating Twice a year, glaciologist Lauren Vargo and her colleagues set up camp beside two small lakes close to New Zealand’s Brewster glacier. Each time the trek to carry the measuring stakes
3 August 2020
Kashmir Now Hotspot of Illegal Riverbed Mining
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Riverbed mining in Arin, which flows into the Jhelum river via Wular Lake in Kashmir. Courtesy: ThirdPole.net/Athar Parvaiz By Athar ParvaizAug 3 2020 (IPS) Going against its own orders, the government in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has ordered the fast-tracking of environmental clearances despite manifest evidence of illegal sand mining. A
3 August 2020
Adani: Second major Korean brokerage withdraws financial backing for miner’s coal projects
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Exclusive: Hanwha follows Samsung in vowing to cease support, saying it had ‘no knowledge’ of environmental issues related to Carmichael mine A second major Korean backer of Adani’s Australian coal operation has said it won’t provide any more financial support for the controversial miner, which faces potential debt difficulties related to its Abbot Point export
2 August 2020
Stay or Leave? The Role of Air Pollution in Urban Migration Choices
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Publication date: November 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 177 Author(s): Ziming Liu, Lu Yu
1 August 2020
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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By Joaquín RoyMIAMI, Jul 31 2020 (IPS) In the cinematic context of the death of the Italian and universal composer, Ennio Morricone, author of the background music of more than four hundred films, as an indirect tribute, Europe took a solid step. The European Union’s (EU) forceful ban on accepting travelers from the rest of