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It was bound to happen some time, and the time could well be now. We know that when there was strong warming on our planet (like at the end of the last Ice Age...

In Senegal, women farmers compose 70% of the agricultural workforce, but rarely own land. Mariama Sonko wanted to change that, so she started We Are the Solution, now 115,000-strong, to train women to feed their communities sustainably.

Carbon Brief explores which countries are or have targets to be net-negative, and the moral and scientific arguments for such a milestone.

Climate scientist Dr Jim Salinger has been named as the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Te Pou Whakarae o Aotearoa.

Sonko is now trying to set up seven new training centers across southern Senegal.

The historical association of time with the rotation of Earth has meant that Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) closely follows this rotation1. Because the rotation rate is not constant, UTC contains discontinuities (leap seconds), which complicates its use in computer networks2. Since 1972, all UTC discontinuities have required that a leap second be added3. Here we show that increased melting of ice in Greenland and Antarctica, measured by satellite gravity4,5, has decreased the angular velocity ...

Climate scientist Dr Jim Salinger, of Queenstown, is the 2024 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Te Pou Whakarae o Aotearoa.

A project in West Africa is changing the narrative by empowering women farmers with rights and land, addressing gender disparities in agriculture.

Across Senegal, women farmers make up 70% of the agricultural workforce and produce 80% of the crops but have little access to land, education and finance compared to men, the United Nations says.

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Mariama Sonko's voice resounded through the circle of 40 women farmers sitting in the shade of a cashew tree. They scribbled notes, brows furrowed in concentration as her lecture was punctuated by the thud of falling fruit. World News | ''Women Farmers Are Invisible'': A West African Project Helps Them Claim Their Rights — and Land.