Professor Noam Chomsky
Sapna Bhavnani
The march will begin on April 7, 2021 at the UN headquarters in New York City, NY, and end in Washington, D.C. They say revolutions start from home .. Home is where the legs are. My legs carry the stories as witness so they will never die. ” Sapna Moti BhavnaniWASHINGTON , DC, USA, January 23, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ The Sindhi Foundation will lead the Long Walk for Freedom, Nature, and Love in April 2021 to raise awareness for global human rights violations and climate change. For decades, the people of the Sindh province in Pakistan have endured horrific human rights abuses inflicted and silenced by the Pakistan state. Instances of enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing, and forced conversion of indigenous Sindhis continue to rise each day.
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Paradise lost: Dominicans adapt to growing climate change threat
Flooding, ocean acidification and beach erosion among challenges faced by Caribbean nation, Renée Lewis reports in this article for
Aljazeera America. Follow the link below for the original report and a gallery of photos.
Rocky Antonio Cabrera steps into a small fishing boat as another fisherman yanks on the starter chord bringing the motor to life.
As the boat glides through thick mangroves in Manzanillo Bay, part of a national park in northwest Dominican Republic near the border with Haiti, Cabrera comments on high winds that arrived a month early this year a change he blames on the impact of global warming on weather patterns.
GLOF, vulnerabilities and local action
Opinion
January 11, 2021
In my previous article, ‘Integrating GLOF into policy’ (January 4), I argued that increased frequency of Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) makes it necessary for Pakistan to establish locally workable mechanisms to enhance the resilience of vulnerable communities.
This means that these local institutions have the capacity to identify and manage GLOF-induced risks, and they have resources to implement mitigation and adaptation action plans.
The most urgent action to address the potential destruction of GLOFs is to enhance the technical and technological capacity to undertake timely risk assessment of glacier melt through hydrological monitoring and forecasting. The existing technology of early warning systems lacks the capacity of risk management and timely dissemination of risks to downstream communities. Also, the existing disaster management policies and risk reduction and preparedness plans do not incorpor
Providing a safety cover for the environment
22 Dec 2020 Labour that was rendered jobless in Pakistan amid COVID-19 pandemic found employment in ‘Green Stimulus’ Initiative of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Reuters A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. So said Franklin D. Roosevelt, once. His words could not be truer.
Trees soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide as they grow and release it when they burn or rot. Overall, better management of nature could avert 11.3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year by 2030, according to a study.
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