Trash Islands Bring Balkan Waste Crisis To The Surface By Sally MAIRS with Darko DURIDANSKI in Skopje and Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC in Visegrad
on January 22 2021 2:13 PM
Framed by rolling hills and farmhouses, the emerald waters of Potpecko lake were once a picturesque fishing spot in western Serbia.
But recently, the smell itself was enough to turn away visitors from a reservoir filled with a sprawling mass of trash one of several enormous build-ups in the region that have brought the Balkans garbage crisis into plain view. It s very ugly, sighed Milomir Mijovic, a 34-year-old who lives nearby, as he stood near the shore of the lake whose waters were hidden beneath an 8,000 cubic metre spread of plastic bottles, styrofoam and other detritus, frozen together with sticks and mud.
Masdar looks to double clean energy capacity as demand for renewables grows
The company plans to submit bids for three projects with a collective capacity of 1 gigawatt in Uzbekistan
The Mohammed bin Rashid Solar Park is expected to generate 5,000MW of electricity by 2030 and is expected to drive up to Dh50 billion in investment. Courtesy: Masdar
A consortium led by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) and Masdar, in partnership with France’s EDF and JinkoPower will develop the world’s largest solar power plant in Abu Dhabi. WAM
Masdar s Vava’u 512 kW solar PV in Tonga. Abu Dhabi-based Irena has called on governments to push through green stimulus programmes for a far-sighted longer-lasting recovery. Courtesy: Masdar
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Recovering from a relatively slow start to the year, due in no small part to the global pandemic, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Units of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) closed the year with a bang. With 32 combined FCPA enforcement actions, 51 total cases including ancillary enforcement, and a record-setting $2.78 billion in corporate fines and penalties (plus billions more collected by foreign regulators), 2020 marks another robust year in the annals of FCPA enforcement.
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Pongo tapanuliensis
, identified as a new species of orangutan, is found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Photo: Andrew Walmsley/Handout via Reuters.
Onrizal Onrizal remembers hearing stories of human-like creatures living in the forest when he was growing up in Sungai Dareh, a town in western Sumatra, Indonesia. Legend had it that the creatures, called
orang pendek, or “short people,” by the locals, disappeared from the forest in the 1970s.
Today, Onrizal is a forestry researcher at North Sumatra University, where he studies the biodiversity of his native island, including the orangutans that likely inspired the stories of the orang pendek. And while the stories may just be stories, there’s still an element of truth to them: the creatures are indeed disappearing from the forest.