Colombia Amazon deforestation forecast down 25 per cent to 35 per cent last year, ministry says
Bogota, Colombia Reuters Deforestation in Colombia’s Amazon region is forecast to have declined by 25 per cent to 35 per cent in 2023, Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said on Monday, while warning that evidence shows that destruction has increased so far in 2024. Colombia is one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, with thousands of […]
Thai author seeks to reopen probe into 1946 death of King Ananda
Bangkok, Thailand Reuters A Thai court is holding hearings on a petition seeking to reopen one of the most controversial cases in the country’s modern history, the death of King Ananda Mahidol who was found shot dead in his bedroom in 1946 at the age of 20. King Ananda, also known as Rama VIII, reigned from 1935 to 1946, […]
Conservative Christians praise Trump’s anti-abortion record but say he’s stopped short of the goal
United States AP For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do: A conservative majority US Supreme Court that would go on to overturn Roe v Wade, a Holy Grail of the movement. With abortion rights now controlled by each state, rather than […]
Gambia MP defends bid to legalise female genital mutilation
Dakar, Senegal Reuters Gambian lawmaker Almaneh Gibba started his campaign to overturn a 2015 ban on female genital mutilation after the West African country imposed its first fines on those found guilty of the practice last year. Despite concerns about the leniency of the sentences – a $US220 fine for three women accused of cutting […]
Former Ecuador vice president hospitalised but stable, prisons agency says
Quito, Ecuador Reuters Ecuador’s detained former Vice President Jorge Glas was taken to hospital on Monday after he fell ill at a prison in Guayaquil, prison authorities said, just hours after his lawyers complained they had been unable to contact him. Glas, already twice convicted of corruption and now facing fresh charges, was arrested on […]
March marks yet another record in global heat
Brussels, Belgium Reuters The world just experienced its warmest March on record, capping a 10-month streak in which every month set a new temperature record, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Tuesday. Each of the last 10 months ranked as the world’s hottest on record, compared with the corresponding month in previous […]
Argentina faces rising dengue epidemic risk as mosquitoes hatch early
Buenos Aires Reuters Mosquitoes are hatching earlier in Argentina and reaching cooler regions than before, as rising temperatures drive the country’s worst outbreak of dengue fever and raise the risk of more regular epidemics of the insect-borne virus, scientists said. So far in the 2023/24 season, the South American nation has recorded 232,996 cases of […]
Competing needs: Reindeer herders battle power line needed for Norway’s climate goal
GWLADYS FOUCHE, of Reuters, report on concerns among Sami herders over a planned power line to supply Western Europe’s largest liquefied natural gas plant…
A life’s work destroyed – Palestinian counts cost of Gaza war
Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza Strip Reuters Mohammed Al Safi said his business making bedding and mattresses in the Gaza Strip provided a decent living and employed 10 people until it was destroyed during an Israeli raid. Today, he depends on aid to survive – if he can find any. Safi, 51, said the fruits of […]
Essay: Rebuilding Gaza was seen as a ‘Herculean’ task before 7th October; six months of bombing has led to crises that will long outlive the war
In an article first published on The Conversation, scholar and systems engineer DIMA NAZAL looks at the cost of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza…