New plant breeding technologies for food security
(University of Göttingen) An international team, including researchers from the University of Göttingen, argues in a perspective article recently published in “Science” that new plant breeding technologies can contribute significantly to food security and sustainable development. Genome editing techniques in particular, such as CRISPR/Cas, could help to make agriculture more productive and environmentally friendly. The researchers advocate the responsible use and support of these new technologies.
Climate change: Global impacts ‘accelerating’ – WMO – BBC News
Image copyright Tomwang112 The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says that the physical and financial impacts of global warming are accelerating. Record greenhouse gas levels are driving temperatures to “increasingly dangerous levels”, it says. Their report comes in the same week…
Cyclone Idai: Rich countries are to blame for disasters like this â hereâs how they can make amends
It is not only the intensity of environmental disasters that makes them devastating – poverty also has a huge bearing on how things play out
Racist Storms? Whites Created Cyclone Idai And Must Therefore Pay, Says BLF
(h/t Raining Sky) Black First Land First (BLF) has blamed Tropical Cyclone Idai on whites and wants the African Union to demand reparations and relief from the West for the disaster. BLF president Andile Mngxitama charged in a statement that…
2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #12
Latest Posts 2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #12 2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #12 New research, March 11-17, 2019 The climate papers most featured in the media in 2018 Editorial cartoonists…
World Meteorological Day 2019: The Sun, the Earth and the weather
This year, the day is focusing on the role of the Sun on the Earth and the changing pattern of our climate and weather
Africa Climate Week: Cyclone Idai highlights urgent need of climate finance
The cyclone is already being touted as one of the worst natural disasters in the southern hemisphere
Burning Issues About Plastic Pollution
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