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On Wednesday, September 20, Hurricane Maria, a powerful Category 4 hurricane made direct landfall on Puerto Rico, bisecting the entire island and drenching it with feet of rain. The island is running out of food, fuel, and access to clean water, and there is limited communication, which means some communities have received no information about the rescue efforts underway. […]

Original post by Jasmin Fox-Skelly for BBC Throughout history, humans have existed side-by-side with bacteria and viruses. From the bubonic plague to smallpox, we have evolved to resist them, and in response, they have developed new ways of infecting us. We have had antibiotics for almost a century, ever since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. In response,

Source: AbiaOnline.Ng Pondering over the events that prognosticated couple of days ago in Abia, I can not help but appreciate the ingenuity and commitment of the Abia “Première Dame” to positioning Abia State on the speedy lane of development. The need for African nations and third-world countries to re-fashion her politics and policies to leap

 Article by NUPUR PARIKH for Next Billion The most tangible pathway out of poverty for millions of households in rural sub-Saharan Africa involves boosting agriculture. Studies have shown that growth in agriculture is more than 2.5 times more effective at reducing poverty than growth originating in other sectors of the economy. That growth requires strong linkages between farmers

Original post on Themarketmogul Normally, it’s Chinese fishermen that make the headlines, as they sail farther and farther to trawl foreign waters after having depleted the seas closer to home. With its growing middle class hungry for seafood, China is certainly having the biggest impact on the world’s oceans – above all, off the coast of less-developed West

Original post by ELENA KOSOLAPOVA for IISD Capacity-building workshops that took place over the course of the past week aimed to strengthen climate services in the Pacific, and South and Southeast Asia, and sought to enhance synergies among various agencies to accelerate technology transfer. The Australian Aid-funded Climate and Oceans Support Programme for the Pacific (COSPPac)

Original post on DW Gau Farm is unique among India’s dairy producers. Its cows are said to fart and burp less than those on farms elsewhere in the country. That may not sound particularly important until you consider the one billion cows on the planet produce a lot of methane — a greenhouse gas at least 25 times more

Original post by Mythili Sampathkumar for Independent Nicaragua has announced it will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change, which leaves the US and Syria as the only two countries not participating in the global accord. Nearly 200 countries signed the deal in December 2015 in an effort to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and contain global

Original post by MIKAEL L. CLASON HÖÖK and MALIA BACHESTA for Nextbillion As aspiring homeowners in the United States use online services like Rocket Mortgage to “make getting a home loan easy,” an ocean away in places like Kenya and Zambia, rural smallholder farmers are using similar digital technologies to access the finance they need to improve their farms and

Original post on DW With the closing of the last industrial sugar plantation in Hawaii, sustainable agriculture activists see an opening to go back to Hawaii’s roots and build a model for profitable organic farming. Only a few years ago, Hawaii produced more than a million tons of sugar a year – or 20 percent