From Madagascar to Morocco: Gen Z protests shake Africa
“I joined the protests because enough is enough. We’ve lost our most basic rights, corruption is everywhere, injustice is everywhere, public services are collapsing,” she says. “In my house for instance we haven’t had running water for six years, and yet we’re still paying the bills.”
Greta Thunberg is among flotilla activists deported from Israel. Others remain in prison
Instead, Thunberg urged world leaders and ordinary citizens to end their “complicity” with the “genocide” being carried out against Palestinians in Gaza, on the eve of the second anniversary of the war there between Israel and Hamas.
Right-wing Sanae Takaichi set to be Japan’s first female premier
“Recently, I have heard harsh voices from across the country saying we don’t know what the LDP stands for anymore,” Takaichi said in a speech before the runoff vote. “That sense of urgency drove me. I wanted to turn people’s anxieties about their daily lives and the future into hope.”
The fattening forest: trees of the Amazon are getting bigger
The authors point out the new research has other implications too. According to Professor Oliver Phillips of the University of Leeds: “What happens to big trees – including how they deal with increasing climate threats and manage to disperse their seeds – is now mission-critical. The only way the giants will stay healthy is if the Amazon ecosystem stays connected. Deforestation is a huge threat-multiplier and will kill them if we let it.”
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