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This spring, Russia has been conducting a sizeable military buildup along its border with Ukraine and in occupied Crimea. Most of these deployments seem spontaneous and unrelated to any scheduled training exercises. Russia’s activity has not been limited to the land. There has also been a Russian buildup at sea. Recently, four Russian warships from the Baltic fleet have moved to the Black Sea. In addition, 15 vessels from the Caspian flotilla have just arrived in the Sea of Azov. This means a total of at least 50 Russian warships are now operating in the waters around Ukraine.REF
Rolling Stone The Corpus Christi Water Wars
A coalition of residents is trying to halt the region’s rapid industrial sprawl. The fight is now centered on the water supply for a massive new Exxon SABIC plastics plant in the drought-prone Texas city
By Rahim Fortune for Rolling Stone
A skyline of smokestacks appears on the horizon before the rest of Corpus Christi does. Approaching Texas’ “Sparkling City by the Sea” on I-37, a palm-tree-lined highway running from San Antonio to the Gulf Coast, it’s tough to tell where the billowing exhaust from oil refineries ends and the rain clouds begin. Massive storage domes, tangles of pipes, and burning flares reach into the sky, and a potpourri of gasoline, sulfur, and unidentified chemical-burning smells fill the air.
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In a world where the global population continues to increase year-on-year, ensuring enough crops are produced to feed everyone is of paramount concern. Fertilisers are capable of enhancing crop yields and maximising the produce from a given set of resources, meaning they are integral to the ongoing security of food all around the world.
While chemical fertilisers have been a popular method of maximising crop yields for decades, they can be damaging to the natural environment – especially if they contain excessive levels of contaminants like phosphate and ammonia. The latter is particularly problematic and although new perspectives in ammonia monitoring are in development, it makes prudent sense to substitute artificial fertilisers for organic ones, which is why sewage sludge has become an increasingly popular option. However, this alternative is not without its own drawbacks, so the EU has instituted legislation aimed at making the practice as safe as po
Location: Hearing will be held via Cisco WebEx
Subcommittee: International Development, International Organizations and Global Corporate Social Impact
Joint hearing of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Development, International Organizations and Global Corporate Social Impact and the Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
Witnesses
Using implementation and climate science to diminish Dengue in the FSM and RMI
Details Written by Bill Jaynes
(Hagåtña, Guam) – Many US-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPIs) are disproportionately affected by climate change. Low elevation islands, particularly those in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), have already experienced rising sea levels and persistent drought affecting access to drinking water, decreased living space, and climate-sensitive diseases like dengue.
The FSM and RMI health leadership and PIHOA have teamed up with the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) U.S. Department of State to building predictive models. Using climate and dengue data, the team will develop and implement early warning systems against dengue for the FSM and RMI. This lead time would allow FSM and RMI to train vector staff, reduce mosquito sources, test insecticide resistance, and