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The true cost of a new confrontation with China

This cartoonish depiction of villainy might be dismissed as campaign season hyperbole if it weren't informing real policy proposals. And if lawmakers wanted to find the most wasteful, counterproductive and inflammatory way to confront China, they …

After Fighting Plastic in ‘Paradise Lost,’ Sisters Take On Climate Change

SEMINYAK, Indonesia — It was trash season on Bali, the time of year when monsoon storms wash up tons of plastic debris onto the island’s beaches. It was also the time for two teenage sisters, Melati and Isabel Wijsen, to organize their annual island …

China braces for more rainstorms over weekend, climate change blamed

OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Watchdog accuses Commerce of holding up 'Sharpiegate' report | Climate change erases millennia of ...

HAPPY THURSDAY! Welcome to Overnight Energy, The Hill's roundup of the latest energy and environment news. Please send tips and comments to Rebecca Beitsch at rbeitsch@thehill.com. Follow her on Twitter: @rebeccabeitsch. Reach Rachel Frazin at rfrazin@ …

INSIGHT-Eyes in the sky: Investors reach for new tools to gauge climate change risk

LONDON (Reuters) - In the twilight years of past civilisations, astrologers would scour the heavens for signs of impending calamity. In an era where climate change is eroding age-old certainties, a new cast of characters is searching for answers in the sky …

China-EU cooperation matters - Jiang Jiang

In 1990, I was sent to Brussels as a junior diplomat to participate in an interpretation training programme organised by the then European Community for China. That was my first encounter with the continent and I was deeply impressed by its immense beauty, …

Climate change caused havoc 2000 years ago

An Alaskan volcano once spurred climate change, darkening Mediterranean skies, launching a famine and possibly changing history. LONDON, 1 July, 2020 – Once again, geologists have shown that climate change can be linked to some of the most dramatic moments …

Low Carbon Winter Olympics for Beijing 2022 Wechat program debuts

BEIJING, July 2 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing Winter Olympics organizers released a small program on Wechat on Thursday to attract the public to participate in low-carbon action actively and contribute to the low-carbon Winter Olympics. The Low Carbon Winter …

Humans a more immediate threat to rivers than climate change

Climate change promises to disrupt a variety of natural systems across the globe, but new research suggests human activities pose a more immediate threat to the planet's largest river systems. For the study -- published Friday in the journal One Earth …

A "Transformative Roadmap" to Address Climate Change

Mitigating flood risk is just one aspect of a bold new plan in Congress to tackle climate change. (Florida Fish and Wildlife/Stan Kirckland/Flickr) July 1, 2020 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Some congressional Democrats have released a blueprint for how the …

Germany’s EU presidency: corona recovery, climate change action, new mobility

Today Germany takes over the EU’s six-month rotating presidency, facing the biggest challenge Europe – and the world – has faced in the past decades. As Politico terms it, Germany’s will be a ‘corona presidency’. Cohesion and solidarity will be the …

China's Coal Projects Spur Call for Legal Limits

As China presses ahead with coal-fired power projects outside its own borders, environmental critics are calling for legal controls. Writing for the environmental website www.chinadialogue.net last month, advocates argued that China's draft energy law, …

Syngenta: COVID Tests Ag Resiliency, Making Climate Change Vital

Syngenta: COVID Tests Ag Resiliency, Making Climate Change Vital USAgNet - 07/01/2020 A global survey of large scale farmers in the USA, France, China, Brazil, India and across Africa for Syngenta Group found 72% are worried about the impact …

The U.S.-China confrontation is not another Cold War. It’s something new.

It may be tempting to reach for the Cold War playbook. Two superpowers now stand off in geopolitical, military and ideological competition. They compete for allies and influence across multiple regions. Both wish to avoid the profound destructiveness of …

A confident, united EU front will have long-term effect on China, Commission president says

BRUSSELS, July 2 (Reuters) - The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Thursday that a confident, united European front would have a long-term effect on China, in response to China’s passage of a national security law for Hong …

World's e-waste "unsustainable", says UN report citing China, India and U.S.

NEW DELHI/GENEVA (Reuters) - Across the river from Delhi’s Red Fort, the grim neighbourhood of Seelampur lives off what consumers in the modern world throw away - their broken or obsolete electronic and electrical goods. Home to one of the world’s …

CSOs-Individuals-Sue-Government-Over-Exploration-At-Atewa-Forest

Seven Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and four private citizens, have jointly sued the Government over the exploration and drilling of deep wells in the Atewa Forest Reserve. Mr Martin Kpebu, the counsel for the plaintiffs filed the writ against the …

Insecurities over U.S. leadership

There is in our country such a multitude of concerns right now that many of us are overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, or all of the above. We are supposed to be celebrating our nation’s birthday, but it is hard to feel celebratory. It is a challenge to cope. …

What a free trade deal between New Zealand and the United Kingdom might mean

On 17 June, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) officially announced the start of negotiations on a free trade agreement between New Zealand (NZ) and the United Kingdom (UK), stating that the parties are committed to a bilateral agreement …

Coronavirus - Africa: Amid COVID-19, African church leaders say availing quality seeds to farmers can help beat food ...

Download logo As African nations begin opening after months of coronavirus closures, church officials and agricultural experts are stressing an immediate supply of quality seeds to farmers to help tackle a predicted food crisis. Citizens in some of the …

Coronavirus - Africa: Amidst COVID-19 pandemic, UN High-Level Forum aims to chart pathways toward a sustainable recovery

Download logo Facing the devastating impacts of COVID-19, which is threatening decades of progress in improving people’s lives, countries are meeting at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development from 7 to 16 July to …

Coronavirus - Libya: On the one year anniversary of the bloody attack on the Tajoura Detention Centre, the UN renews its ...

Download logo Today marks one year since the airstrike on the Tajoura Detention Centre which resulted in the killing of at least 52 migrants and the injury of 87 others in one of the deadliest incidents since the launch of the attack on Tripoli in April …

Coronavirus – South Africa: Government commences urgent investigation into the supply of scrap to the Metals Industry in ...

Download logo The Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic), Mr Ebrahim Patel, has today issued a trade policy directive to the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) to urgently look into measures to help support …

The era of positive impact, World Merit Rabat and its quest to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ...

Amid rising and already existing challenges that our world is facing, World Merit RABAT, a local branch of the international World Merit organization (https://WorldMerit.org), has taken on the role of catalyst of change by leading and mentoring …

African ministers, social partners join International Labour Organization (ILO) high-level summit on COVID-19 and the ...

Download logo More than 50 African ministers of labour or employment, along with representatives of workers’ and employers’ organizations and international organizations joined the International Labour Organization (www.ILO.org) Regional Office for Africa …

Healthcare Analytics Market Worth $84.2 billion by 2027- Exclusive Report Covering Pre and Post COVID-19 Market ...

London, July 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a new market research report “Healthcare Analytics Market by Type (Predictive, Prescriptive), Component (Hardware, Software, and Services), Delivery Mode (Cloud), Application (Clinical, RCM, Claims, …

American & British Water Utilities Adopt Electro Scan to Test New & Existing Trenchless Cured-In-Place Pipe (CIPP)

Outdated Visual Inspection of Widely Used CIPP Being Replaced By Machine-Based Technology to Locate & Quantify Leaks Missed by CCTV Cameras SACRAMENTO, CALIF., USA, July 2, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Yesterday, in the early morning hours in …

The World's First Large-Scale Coral Swap Sees Lost Genotypes Returned to Nurseries in the Florida Keys

This week, a first-of-its-kind, large-scale, coordinated “coral swap” of critically endangered staghorn coral took place in Key Largo, Florida. KEY LARGO, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, July 2, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- On June 24th, 2020, scientists …

The Patented and First Wild Horse Roundup Alternative by WPM is Achieving Successful Results on the Range

A Groundbreaking Alternative to Wild Horse Roundups Launched by WPM of Albuquerque, N.M. is Meeting Their Goals for Humane Hands Free Wild Horse Management ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, UNITED STATES, July 2, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- As the manager …

Nasekomo signs the largest publicly announced early stage AgTech deal in Emerging Europe

Bulgarian start-up upscales organic waste streams from the agro-industry into animal feed by harnessing the power of the black soldier fly larvae. SOFIA, BULGARIA, July 2, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Bulgarian start-up Nasekomo has raised EUR 4 …

Coronavirus: Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio commissions Covid-19 Care and Treatment Facilities, recognises ...

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has commissioned Covid-19 care and treatment facilities, the pilot distribution of equipment and uniforms to healthcare workers in Bo, southern Sierra Leone, where he also praised the interventions of partner …

Coronavirus: Uganda provides a safe haven to Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) refugees amid COVID-19 lockdown

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the decision by the Government of Uganda to give safe haven to thousands of refugees fleeing escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They have been stranded in a remote, inaccessible …

Coronavirus - Africa: Quarantine Measures threaten Aviation Restart in Africa and the Middle East

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged governments in Africa and the Middle East (AME) to implement alternatives to quarantine on arrival that would allow economies to re-start while avoiding the importation of COVID-19 cases. Government- …

In Mozambique, water project boosts yields as farmers grapple with climate extremes

Felicidade Machava, 60, likes to recount the story about how, one year, she filled a small truck with maize from her harvest.   Machava, is a farmer in Guija district in Mozambique. The country has been experiencing weather volatility in the form of longer …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Market Worth $122 billion by 2027- Exclusive Report Covering Pre and Post COVID-19 ...

London, July 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a new market research report titled, “Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Market by Component (Orchestration, Professional Services), Virtualized Network Function, Application (Virtual Appliances, …

Molina Healthcare Announces Second Quarter 2020 Earnings Release and Conference Call Dates

Long Beach, Calif., July 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: MOH) today announced details for the release of its results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020. Molina Healthcare will issue its earnings release for the second …

Adam Burton Ahlborn Discusses Top Hiking Destinations for the Summer of 2020

Adam Burton Ahlborn discusses the top hiking destinations in Oklahoma for the summer of 2020.  SKIATOOK, OKLAHOMA, USA, July 1, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The summer hiking season is in full swing, and Oklahoma is an ideal place to lace up your …

RegScan and EXP Announce New Partnership

WILLIAMSPORT, PA, USA, July 1, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- RegScan, Inc., a trusted provider of global compliance solutions for Environmental, Health, & Safety professionals, is pleased to announce that the RegScan™ regulatory content can now …

R4G Extends No Cost Staffing Service to Help Santa Monica Nonprofits Hire Moms

This summer, Recruiting for Good is offering cost free staffing services to help Santa Monica based nonprofits find and hire degreed moms for professional jobs. SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, July 1, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- …