Beirut is bursting as over 1 million people flee Israeli strikes and evacuation orders
The government has converted hundreds of public schools into shelters and pitched tents for displaced families beneath the bleachers of the city’s main sports stadium. Charities have scrambled to help, with one refashioning an abandoned slaughterhouse destroyed in Beirut’s 2020 port explosion into a dormitory for almost 1,000 displaced people.
Why have US-South Africa relations soured?
“They have connected themselves to ultra right-wing and racist organizations in South Africa, who have perpetrated the falsity, the complete lie, that there is a white genocide in South Africa,” Nieftagodien told DW. “And Trump has latched onto this.”
The US is now paying more than any other country for climate change damage, study suggests
Compared to every other country in the world, the US is bearing the biggest brunt of the economic losses inflicted by climate breakdown – and will likely continue to do so.
Aquaculture is growing fast – but moving in the wrong direction
The study looked at global aquaculture production from 1950 to 2023 and found that, since the 1980s, the industry has shifted toward a smaller, more intensive set of farmed species, especially fed finfish.
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