Climate change is making pests which ravage important agricultural crops even more destructive, heightening threats to global food security and the environment, a UN-backed study published on Wednesday has found. The scientific review looks at 15 plant pests .
The economic crisis caused by the COVID pandemic is expected to contribute to global unemployment of more than 200 million people next year, with women and youth workers worst-hit, UN labour experts said on Wednesday. The International Labour Organization .
A globe-trotting
adventurer
The Arctic tern is a great traveller, and
spends most of the year on the move, with long periods over
the ocean. Its breeding grounds cover both the northern and
southern polar regions. In Europe, during the summer months,
it can be found from Brittany in the south, to Iceland,
Greenland, and Svalbard in the north.
Come autumn, the
terns head south in the direction of Antarctica where they
stay during the northern winter. However, they don’t fly
directly from north to south, and an individual bird has
been known to have covered almost 100,000 kilometres, or
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An area of land roughly the size of China needs
restoring if the planet’s biodiversity and the communities
who rely on it are to be protected, UN agencies said on
Thursday.
The Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
and UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP)
call to reinstate at least one billion degraded hectares of
land by 2030 must also be matched by a similar commitment to
the oceans, or else risk a growing threat to global food
security, they added.
In a new report
marking the start of a Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, the
agencies warned that humans are already using 1.6
The threat of new volcanic eruptions from Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have triggered thousands of residents to flee from the eastern city of Goma, the UN humanitarian office said on Friday. Speaking at a UN .