- Indonesia’s controversial Job Creation Law is facing new legal challenges from civil society groups who say it weakens environmental protections and human rights.
- One lawsuit targets provisions that restrict…
Category: 9. Environment
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Civil society challenges Indonesian deregulation law over rights and environment
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A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel
- A project in the Sahel and East Africa claims to fight both soil erosion and poverty through regenerative agroforestry.
- U.S.-based NGO Trees for the Future (TREES) trains farmers in what it calls the forest garden…
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How a large, flightless parrot rebounded from the verge of extinction
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
In the mid-1990s, the kākāpō seemed destined…
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Impacts of climate variability and adaptation strategies on staple crop productivity in Sidama, Ethiopia
Socio-demographics of respondents
Table 3 provides the socio-demographics of the 367 respondents surveyed across two districts of Sidama. The distribution of respondents is fairly and proportionally balanced between Boricha Woreda, which includes…
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A 3.5-fold increase in the synchrony of extreme precipitation and temperature events across China from 1930 to 2022
An increase of 3.5-fold in annual LAp from 1930 to 2022
From 1930 to 2022, the annual proportion of land area (LAp) affected by multiple extreme climate events increases significantly at the national scale. Based on 30-year moving averages, the…
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Multi-level trend analysis of extreme climate indices by a novel hybrid method of fuzzy logic and innovative trend analysis
Innovative trend analysis (ITA)
The ITA is a graphical trend analysing method in which a given time series is divided into two equal sub-series, and then, each of the sub-series is sorted in ascending order. The scatter plot of the sub-series is…
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Investigating air temperature changes in Bhubaneswar city over 123 years from 1901 to 2023
Statistical data analysis
The annual average temperature is shown in Fig. 2, indicating the trends of mean temperature values of maximum (\({T}_{Max}\)), minimum (\({T}_{Min}\)) and air temperature (\({T}_{Mean}\)) from1901 to 2023 in…
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Scenario based land use simulation for climate adaptability in coastal urban agglomerations of Guangdong Hong Kong and Macao Bay area
Study area
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) has the potential to become a world-class urban agglomeration and represents a new effort to promote a comprehensive pattern of openness in the new era49. GBA is located in southern…
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Almost 50% of Microplastic Pollution Comes From Cars. Here’s Why. : ScienceAlert
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go?
The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particles from the tires’ synthetic rubber carry
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An online tool based on the Internet of Things and intelligent blockchain technology for data privacy and security in rural and agricultural development
Multi-tiered BCT for Agri-IoT
Figure 1 shows a multi-tiered system that uses a permissioned BCT to secure and optimize Agri-IoT data interactions. This system has edge, fog, and cloud tiers. ‘’Data Handlers’ are functional components of each…
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