United Nations, United States (AFP): UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday pleaded for immediate radical action on climate change, saying record-shattering July temperatures show Earth has passed from a warming phase into an “era of global boiling.” Speaking in New York, the secretary-general described the intense heat across the N...
ISTANBUL (AA): Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that his country will provide free grain to six African countries in the next three to four months. “We will be ready in the coming months, in the next three to four months, to provide Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, the Central African Republic, and Eritrea with […]
ANKARA (AA) – Forest fires have destroyed about 82 million hectares of forest worldwide in the last 10 years. According to Global Forest Watch (GFW), the worst forest fires occurred in Australia, Russia, Canada, and the U.S. In Australia, the 2019-2020 bushfires were the largest in the last 10 years, destroying more than 24 million […]...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Russia has over the past several years strengthened its presence in Africa, vowing to intensify grain exports, weapons deliveries and energy cooperation. The process has intensified since the Ukraine war which isolated Russia from other Western nations. Grain Earlier this month, Russia pulled out from a deal that allowe...
GENEVA (AA): Half of the world population is at risk of contracting the mosquito-borne dengue virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Raman Velayudhan, WHO’s unit head on tropical diseases, told a UN press briefing in Geneva that WHO recorded an eightfold increase in dengue cases between year 2000-2022, increasing from 500...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that more than 20 million children missed one or more vaccine doses against COVID -19 last year. Another 15 million children skipped vaccination altogether. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said in Geneva that 4 million more children were vaccinated against COVID -19 in 20...
LONDON (AA): After this June was declared the warmest on the over-170-year record, 2023 is likely to set a new high annual temperature average, according to new research. “Globally, June 2023 was the warmest June since directly measured instrumental records began in 1850, breaking the record previously set in June 2022,” according ...
GENEVA (AA): As millions in the Northern Hemisphere grapple with record-breaking temperatures, the UN has issued a warning that increasingly severe heat waves could be on the way. “We are seeing continuing growth in the frequency, duration and intensity of heat waves,” said John Nairn, a senior extreme heat advisor of the World Met...
ISTANBUL (AA): Russia on Monday suspended the Black Sea grain deal, the Kremlin said. “The Black Sea agreements ceased to be valid today. As the President of the Russian Federation (Vladimir Putin) said earlier, the deadline is July 17. Unfortunately, the part relating to Russia in this Black Sea agreement has not been implemented so […...
LONDON – A new study has found that hundreds of endangered plant and animal species are not protected by international trade. The study, published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, found that 904 species are likely threatened by international trade. The study, led by Oxford University, also found that only 1,307 endangered s...
