MetService are alerting people to a significant weather event affecting the country over the weekend. A complex low pressure system and associated fronts will move across the country from Saturday. It is bringing the risk of thunderstorms to the top of .
This year, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) examines how a decades-old legacy of DDT use has imperilled Tajikistan’s bees and the actions being taken to reverse this trend.
From the 1970s to the early 1990s, Daria Babenkova’s family was one of many in Tajikistan who relied on bees for their livelihood – shipping their hives across the country’s mountains and prairies as they sought out the flower meadows that would yield the finest honey.
“Relying solely on honey production did not guarantee a secure income so my family began taking on pollination jobs as they travelled,” Daria says. “Farmers would pay them to camp around their fields for a few days at a time so the bees would pollinate their crops.”
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Brandon University grad Jessica Li will deliver her valedictorian address online. (Tyler Murray)
Jessica Li’s advice for the class of 2021, as summed up in one line from her three-minute valedictorian speech: “If life gives you lemons, just squeeze them.”
Jessica Li’s advice for the class of 2021, as summed up in one line from her three-minute valedictorian speech: If life gives you lemons, just squeeze them.
As she prepares to pre-record her address for Brandon University’s upcoming virtual convocation, the 21-year-old is trying to take her own advice, by finding the sweet amid the sour of an unusual end to her bachelor’s degree.
1 May 2021 (UNEP) It’s a phrase that’s been on the lips of scientists, officials and environmental activists a lot in the last few months: ecosystem restoration. This year, 5 June, World Environment Day, marks the official launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a 10-year push to halt and reverse the decline of the natural world.
Photo by UNEP/ Lisa Murray / 30 Apr 2021
You might be wondering: what exactly is an ecosystem and how do you restore one?
To answer the first question an ecosystem is a place where plants, animals and other organisms, in conjunction with the landscape around them, come together to form the web of life.