‘The conference for nature this month in Montreal could be what Paris was for climate. We must seize this opportunity’, environment minister Tanya Plibersek says Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Australia is being urged to take a leadership role at a global summit that aims to reach
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4 December 2022
Australia urged to take leadership role at Cop15 biodiversity summit
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3 December 2022
UN official ‘alarmed’ by jailing of climate activist who blocked traffic on Sydney Harbour Bridge
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Human rights groups around the world express outrage over ‘disproportionate’ punishment of Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A senior UN official has said he is “alarmed” a peaceful Australian climate protester has been jailed for 15 months – and refused bail before her appeal
2 December 2022
A missing piece of the puzzle of on-farm freshwater restoration: What motivates land managers to record and report land management actions?
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Research ABSTRACT Worldwide, progress has been made toward managing productive lands more sustainably to improve freshwater health. However, a lack of national guidance for environmental reporting and recording means that it is not possible to quantify consistently which land management actions that help improve water quality have been implemented, where, when, and to what extent.
2 December 2022
India’s Extensive Railways Often Conduit for Child Trafficking
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Children working and travelling on India’s vast rail network need to be educated about the perils of trafficking. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS By Umar Manzoor ShahKarnataka, India, Dec 2 2022 (IPS) Deeepti Rani (13) lives with her mother in a dilapidated dwelling near a railway track in India’s southern state of Karnataka. The mother-daughter duo
1 December 2022
First-degree price discrimination water bank to reduce reacquisition costs and enhance economic efficiency in agricultural water buyback
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Publication date: March 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 205 Author(s): C. Dionisio Pérez-Blanco, Francesco Sapino, Pablo Saiz-Santiago
30 November 2022
Managing Uncertainty: A Conversation with Greg LaBlanc at unSILOed
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https://www.unsiloedpodcast.com/episodes/john-kay The post Managing Uncertainty: A Conversation with Greg LaBlanc at unSILOed appeared first on John Kay.
30 November 2022
Legal Recognition of East African Sign Languages Key Towards Inclusion
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The United Nations Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD) require the governments to remove all barriers to information access – including those faced by Deaf persons. Credit: UNCRPD By Timothy EgweluKAMPALA, Nov 30 2022 (IPS) Since the onset of the Covid19 pandemic, at least two deaf people were shot and killed in
30 November 2022
BBC’s new Trawlermen series fails to address sustainability, says coalition
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Show omits massive challenges to the industry posed by climate crisis, bycatch and bottom trawling, claims Our Seas alliance of 135 organisations Shot in fishing vessels on the high seas, amid crashing waves that threaten to sweep all on deck overboard, the long-running BBC documentary programme Trawlermen offers viewers an insight into how a crew
30 November 2022
Tyre Extinguishers deflate tyres of 900 SUVs in ‘biggest ever action’
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The climate activists claim to have targeted 4×4 owners in eight European and US cities Guerrilla climate activists Tyre Extinguishers have claimed their “largest ever night of action against SUVs”, with 900 of the vehicles targeted around the world. “Last night (the evening of Monday 28 November and early morning of Tuesday 29 November), citizens
29 November 2022
Vaccine Refusal, Floods Impact Polio Drive in Pakistan
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A young child receives vaccine drops in Pakistan, but the region has experienced an upsurgence of cases because of vaccine refusal. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS By Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, Nov 29 2022 (IPS) Vaccine refusal is impacting the eradication of polio in Pakistan. Pakistan has vaccinated about 35 million children during its door-to-door campaign, but about 500,000