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Biodiversity hinges on China conference

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CHINA

The meeting will set a new Global Biodiversity Framework and agree targets to be met by 2030. Scientists and civil society organisations consider it an opportunity to set in train…

International forest revival methods will improve

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INTERNATIONAL

Soil health can rebound to 90% of its original values in less than a decade, while plant functioning (assessed by wood density, leaf area and percentage of nitrogen-fixing trees…

China’s defence spending will remain stable

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CHINA

Defence spending will account for 1.2% of GDP in 2024, having remained stable at around this figure for at least the past two decades. Nevertheless, outside estimates of China’s…

Boosting Africa’s health security will be challenging

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AFRICA

Although cases and mortality per capita in Africa have been low compared to Europe and the Americas, the pandemic has exposed underlying vulnerabilities in health systems…

Somali piracy should stay below previous peaks

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SOMALIA

The announcement follows recent incidents and seizures that prompt concerns that large-scale piracy could return to Somalia. A spate of piracy between 2008-11 spurred…

Congo’s Ebola epidemic may offer valuable lessons

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CONGO-KINSHASA

Though significant risks remain, after a strenuous 14-month battle, there is now some hope that DRC’s fatigued health system may finally get a much-needed break. Meanwhile, the…

COVID-19 and protests will shake up US cities

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UNITED STATES

These factors are stoking the urban civil unrest that has flared across the country in the last fortnight. What had seemed a practical matter of managing COVID-19 and…

European COVID-19 tracking tech will proliferate

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EUROPE

COVID-19 tracking technology.

Technology delivers mixed development gains in Africa

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AFRICA

However, early hopes that digital technology would rapidly overcome the continent’s infrastructural weaknesses and enable governments to achieve 2030 UN Sustainable Development…

Seabed mining, and environmental fear of it, will rise

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INTERNATIONAL

Japan, Norway and the United States have announced plans to tap their own seabed resources, while the UN International Seabed Authority (ISA) has issued permits for international…