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Gunmen kidnap 20 villagers in central Mali
Oct 07, 2020 16:28Gunmen seized about 20 people in volatile central Mali, with nine remaining in detention Wednesday after their captors released the other hostages, local and security officials said.
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COVID-19, climate crisis are part of same battle
Oct 05, 2020 12:09From early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, a common refrain has been, “At least maybe now we will get serious about addressing climate change.” One can certainly see the logic behind this thinking. The terrible toll the pandemic has taken should remind us of the importance of three things that are also necessary to tackle global warming: Science, public policy, and international cooperation.
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Damage of single use plastic usage during pandemic ‘will last forever’
Oct 01, 2020 07:38Environment campaigners have said action is needed to limit the use of “unnecessary” single-use plastic during the pandemic. During lockdown many chains banned the use of reusable cups for safety reasons, while disposable face masks have been found dropped on beaches.
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700,000 affected by South Sudan floods: UN
Sep 30, 2020 04:49Some 700,000 people have already been affected by what seem set to become the worst floods in 60 years in South Sudan, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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Global coronavirus deaths pass 'agonizing milestone' of 1 million
Sep 29, 2020 09:01The global death toll from COVID-19 has risen past 1 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, a bleak milestone in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded health systems and changed the way people live.
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Might we find life on Venus?
Sep 25, 2020 06:07On September 17 a group of scientists using Earth-based telescopes announced that they had detected phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. On Earth, phosphine is almost always produced by microbial activity. While geological processes are known that can, in principle, produce phosphine, the concentrations of the gas found on Venus, while small, were nevertheless much too high to be attributable to such sources. So how could the phosphine have gotten there? The simplest explanation is life.
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New study finds planet heading toward temperature threshold not seen in 34 million years
Sep 18, 2020 09:42A newly published study conducted by a team of climate scientists warns that—barring prompt and rigorous efforts to minimize greenhouse gas emissions—"Earth is on track for some of the strongest, fastest climate change the planet has ever experienced."
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219 inmates escape from prison, acquire weapons in Uganda
Sep 17, 2020 06:51More than 200 prisoners have escaped from a prison in northeast Uganda, officials say, bringing a local town to a standstill while Ugandan security forces try to track them down.
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Sudan pleads for more aid to tackle devastating floods
Sep 15, 2020 11:55Sudan has appealed for more aid to combat the impact of catastrophic floods across the country, over which Khartoum has already declared a three-month state of emergency.
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'Nature is unraveling': New WWF report reveals 'alarming' 68% plummet in wildlife populations worldwide since 1970
Sep 14, 2020 04:40In the midst of a global pandemic, it is now more important than ever to take unprecedented and coordinated global action to halt and start to reverse the loss of biodiversity.