Balai Penyelidikan dan Pengembangan Teknologi Kebencanaan Geologi (BPPTKG) menyatakan Gunung Merapi di perbatasan D.I. Yogyakarta dan Jawa Tengah mengalami 239 kali gempa guguran selama periode pengamatan pada Senin (6/9) pukul …
Read MoreAfrican Risk Capacity Group Director-General and United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Ibrahima Cheikh Diong. Credit: ARC By Alison KentishDOMINICA, Sep 7 2021 (IPS) The world faces multiple crises: climate change, extreme weather events, food security and biodiversity. For African nations, these issues are compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic and epidemic outbreaks […]
Read MoreSingapore has warned it may need to reimpose Covid-19 restrictions if a new outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant is not contained, putting at risk the city’s shift towards living with the virus.
Read MorePhoto: Pixabay/Picography Scientists recently confirmed the Amazon rainforest is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs, due to uncontrolled burning and deforestation. It brings the crucial ecosystem closer to a tipping point that would see it replaced by savanna and trigger accelerated global heating. This is not an isolated example of nature being […]
Read MoreSingapore – K&L Gates Straits Law LLC, the Singapore office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP, welcomes Ed Bennett as a partner to the firm’s asset management and investment funds practice. Bennett joins the firm from Morgan Lewis Stamford, where he was a partner and co-leader of its Singapore […]
Read MoreBadan Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah (BPBD) Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat menyatakan bahwa banjir bandang akibat meluapnya Sungai Cidurian pada Senin (6/9) petang mengibatkan robohnya jembatan dan merusak belasan rumah …
Read MoreCountry: Syrian Arab Republic Source: World Health Organization With COVID-19 cases rising and hospitals in parts of war-torn Syria struggling to cope, there has been an urgent need to speed up the vaccination programme.
Read MoreVladimir Popov – Principal Researcher, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. By Vladimir PopovBERLIN, Sep 6 2021 (IPS) The main contradiction of the modern era, and indeed of all human history, is not between capitalism and socialism, and not even between authoritarianism and democracy, but between […]
Read MoreThe leader of a resistance group battling a Taliban offensive in Afghanistan’s northern Panjshir Valley said he is in support of clerics in the capital Kabul who have called for an end to the fighting, after a weekend of reported heavy losses.
Read MorePhoto: Flickr/Green Baron Pro (licensing) “Bird-brained” is a term of insult some people direct at others they see as less intelligent. Yet if you are ever called bird-brained again, you might as well consider that a compliment. Crows, ravens and jackdaws are well known for their great problem-solving skills and […]
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