Yangon (AFP) Nov 10, 2021 Myanmar’s junta has charged a US journalist detained since May with sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, his lawyer said Wednesday. The military has squeezed the press since taking power in a February coup, arresting dozens of journalists critical of its crackdown on dissent that has killed over 1,200 people, according to a local monitoring … Continue reading Myanmar charges US journalist with terrorism, sedition

Santo Corazon, Bolivia (AFP) Nov 10, 2021 The road through San Matias, Bolivia, is a no man’s land. Hundreds of thousands of hectares of once lush forest are now a wasteland of twisted, carbonized tree stumps. It is a protected area, but San Matias – which also hosts subsistence farmers, cattle ranches and quartz mines – burns every year as land is cleared for the … Continue reading Climate change and fires: Bolivia’s forests in peril

What draws the consumer to a D2C brand over traditional businesses? Two words: customer closeness. That is, the ability for organizations to feel directly connected to the users of their products or services — understanding their motivations, lifestyles, opinions, and attitudes. Let’s first explore why D2C businesses have advantages over incumbent companies.http://dlvr.it/SCHplj Continue reading Big Business Can Learn About Customer Closeness From D2C Brands

New York (AFP) Nov 7, 2021 America’s northeast is famous for its red, orange and yellow fall foliage but experts say climate change is dulling the colors and delaying peak season, causing concern for the region’s multibillion-dollar “leaf-peeping” tourist industry. Warmer temperatures and heavier rainfall are keeping leaves greener for longer while extreme weather events like heatwaves and storms are stripping trees bhttp://dlvr.it/SCDDG5 Continue reading How climate change is muting America’s famous fall foliage

Chicago (AFP) Nov 7, 2021 On a fall night in 2019, Eric Brandt was awoken by the sound of steel rods cracking inside concrete. “I heard the pings. I know the sound because I used to drill rebar into the top of coal mines,” Brandt explained. “I couldn’t even imagine what was happening out there.” But Brandt, a 69-year-old former mine worker, was nowhere near … Continue reading Living on the Great Lakes — a dream threatened by climate change

Tighnabruaich, United Kingdom (AFP) Nov 7, 2021 Some 10,000 kilometres from his native Brazil, Kreta Kaingang plants an oak sapling in Kilfinan Community Forest as part of a project to reintroduce rainforests into the Highlands of Scotland. Delicately, the chieftain packs earth around the base of the stem with his hands and caresses the budding branches. Then, joined by fellow Latin American indigenous leaders taking … Continue reading From the Amazon to Scotland, forest leaders united in hope

Miami (AFP) Nov 8, 2021 A bit of coral shimmers like gold in a US lab as part of urgent work to help the species protect itself from climate change, an effort even skeptical experts see as sadly justifiable. Researchers in Florida are aiming to determine whether coral can be saved from rising water temperatures and acidification by transplanting stem cells from resistant varieties to … Continue reading Desperate US bid to engineer corals for climate change

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 5, 2021 Children with asthma in Los Angeles have not seen an increase in allergy diagnoses, despite effects from climate change on the air they breathe, a study presented Friday during the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology annual meeting found. The percentage of children in the Los Angeles area with allergies to dust mites, cat, dog, cockroach, tree pollen, … Continue reading Study: Climate change makes allergies worse, doesn’t increase diagnoses

Helsinki (AFP) Oct 27, 2021 Latte drinkers may in the future be sipping on java sourced from a petri dish rather than a plantation, say scientists behind a new technique to grow what they hope to be sustainable coffee in a lab. “It’s really coffee, because there is nothing else than coffee material in the product,” Heiko Rischer tells AFP, pointing to a dish of … Continue reading Finnish scientists create ‘sustainable’ lab-grown coffee

Rome (AFP) Oct 28, 2021 Sicily braced for the arrival of a cyclone Thursday, the second this week after a deadly storm hammered the southern Italian island, killing three people. The Mediterranean cyclone known as a “medicane” was set to reach Sicily’s eastern coast and the tip of mainland Calabria between Thursday evening and Friday morning, Italian public research institute ISPRA said. The civil protection … Continue reading Sicily braces for second cyclone this week