When it comes to reforestation, planting a diversity of tree species could have a plethora of positive effects on forest health and resilience, climate mitigation and biodiversity. That’s based on research from the world’s largest tree-planting experiment, in China, and the world’s longest-running tropical forest planting experiment, in Panama.
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Food Sovereignty All over the world, financial institutions and creditor countries are attacking people’s food sovereignty. They are imposing structural adjustment policies and pushing governments to give the priority to export-oriented productions, while importing the food that their population need. Funding should be directed towards public policies that protect and strengthen local food production, based on numerous small-scale food producers.
On Jan. 29, the sky above Mexico City’s Zócalo plaza was filled with the floating figures of giant balloon whales. Hundreds of people from the “Whales or Gas? ” coalition protested in front of the National Palace over the Saguaro energy project, a massive pipeline planned by the government with U. S.
Notes on the Serbian student movement As in many other regional cases, most notably in Hungary, Poland, or Romania, the commonplace framing of the recent protests in Serbia by Western analysts revolves around the protesters’ anti-corruption demands and demands for the rule of law.
Primatologists and conservation organizations have launched a 10-year action plan to improve the outlook for langur monkeys in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot, a region of Southeast Asia that spans Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand.
In 2006, a group of international NGOs and the government of Kazakhstan came together to save the dwindling population of saiga antelope of the enormous Golden Steppe, a grassland ecosystem three times the size of the United Kingdom.
Labour is creating a digitised welfare state where biased AI will gobble up data and wreck vulnerable people’s lives by judging them based on their age, marital status and nationality. Harriet Williamson reports.
During a meeting at the White House, President Nayib Bukele reaffirmed that El Salvador will act as an international branch of the U. S. Border Patrol, even detaining U. S. citizens.