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Del RAPORTI: Gazetarët në Shqipëri, nën presione dhe pengesa të mëdha

Në Tiranë, Rrjeti BIRN dhe Qendra SCIDEV sapo kanë publikuar Raportin Vjetor 2024 mbi lirinë e medias dhe sigurinë e gazetarëve, ku renditen pengesa të shumta, të cilat, sipas autorëve, rrezikojnë pavarësinë, sigurinë, integritetin dhe profesionalizmin e gazetarisë në Shqipëri. Vitin e kaluar u regjistruan 45 incidente ndaj gazetarëve, që kanë rritur pasigurinë dhe vetë-censurën e tyre në punë.…

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PODCAST: Climate education for future progress

PODCAST: Climate education for future progress

In this episode of Africa Science Focus, Scidev spoke with the founders of social enterprise Earth Warriors on their curriculum creation initiative. Keya Lamba, a co-founder of Earth Warriors explained the approach they take in building curriculums for school students. Shweta Bahri indicated how climate knowledge is already being infused in schools in some countries in Africa. LISTEN HERE

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Borneo: Forest vs. Tree Plantations

Map by Kuang Keng Kuek Ser, for PRI, with data from Center for International Forestry Research.

Map by David Gaveau. Green = “naturally-occurring” forest. Black/gray = oil palm plantation monoculture.

Text, caption, and photo excerpts from David Gaveau. “Satellites check oil palm expansion in Borneo.” SciDev: Asia and Pacific. 14 February 2019.

Oil palm plantations produce about 40 per cent of the world’s vegetable oil which is used for cooking and in processed foods. It goes into cosmetics or gets converted into biofuel. Oil palm is grown in some 43 tropical countries, but 92 per cent of the global planted area is concentrated in Indonesia and Malaysia.

The island of Borneo, home to the iconic orangutan and pygmy elephant and shared by Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, concentrates 45 per cent (8.3 million hectares) of the global planted area (18.6 million hectares) under oil palm with most of this area (5.4 million hectares) developed during the last two decades. Various industry and government representatives dispute that plantations cause deforestation.

We found that plantation companies had, within a year, converted 2.8 million hectares to plantations in Borneo between 2000 and 2017, or nearly half of all total deforestation of 6.04 million hectares during that period. [End of excerpts.]

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Deadly Fungal Disease ‘Caused Greatest Biodiversity Loss Ever Recorded’

The disease is contributing to the Earth’s sixth mass extinction

World Wide (SciDev) – An infectious fungal disease has driven mass amphibian die-offs worldwide and is responsible for the greatest loss of biodiversity attributable to a single pathogen ever recorded, a global study has found.

Chytridiomycosis, caused by two strains of the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd, is responsible for the decline of at least 501 amphibian species,…

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Amazônia brasileira com escalada recorde de incêndios! —

Por Washington Castilhos para a SciDev As queimadas na Amazônia brasileira aumentam a cada mês, e o acumulado anual segue a mesma tendência. Somente …Amazônia brasileira com escalada recorde de incêndios! —

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Un giovane ingegnere del Niger combatte l'inquinamento atmosferico industriale con la sua invenzione

Un giovane ingegnere del Niger combatte l’inquinamento atmosferico industriale con la sua invenzione

Screenshot del documentario di SciDev Afrique sull’invenzione anti-inquinamento sviluppata da un giovane nigerino. Avrete forse sentito parlare di Boyan Slat [en, come i link seguenti salvo diversa indicazione], un giovane inventore e imprenditore di un sistema che utilizza le correnti che circolano negli oceani per rimuovere rifiuti e altre sostanze inquinanti dai mari. Il suo progetto, The…

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Using internet technology to improve cage fish farming

#Igo [SciDev]Source: The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018, FAO. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO Data from the WorldFish Centre, an independent research institute headquartered in Malaysia, shows that fishing …

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Using internet technology to improve cage fish farming

#Igo [SciDev]Source: The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018, FAO. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO Data from the WorldFish Centre, an independent research institute headquartered in Malaysia, shows that fishing ...

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Typhoid superbug spreading in Pakistan - SciDev.Net South-East Asia & Pacific

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Researchers raise alarm over a typhoid outbreak in Pakistan found resistant to five classes of antibiotic drugs.

SciDev Melanie Sison's insight:

While multidrug resistant (MDR) S. Typhi strains have become common, the study reports that this is the first large-scale spread of an XDR clone, with over 300 recorded cases reported in Pakistan’s Sindh province.

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Q&A: “Me enamoré de la ciencia” – SciDev.Net América Latina y el Caribe

SciDev.Net América Latina y el Caribe Q&A: “Me enamoré de la ciencia”SciDev.Net América Latina y el CaribeTe conté antes que mi trabajo de PhD se concentró en los productos naturales de Jamaica que combaten líneas de células cancerígenas, pero lo que no te conté es que cuando terminé el trabajo encontré que todas las líneas ... Leer más - Read more... source https://www.herboristeriaestepona.com/qa-me-enamore-de-la-ciencia-scidev-net-america-latina-y-el-caribe/

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Pesticides Blamed for Rise in Colon Cancer Deaths

The use of pesticides has been linked to a sharp rise in colon cancer deaths in a developing country for the first time.

Brazil (SciDev) – The use of pesticides has been linked to a sharp rise in colon cancer deaths in a developing country for the first time.

Colon cancer is the third most common type of cancer worldwide, accounting for about 10 per cent of all cases. It is more common in developed nations, but a few countries in Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay are now approaching the…

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México encontra agrotóxicos em sangue de crianças após décadas de desastre ambiental — — MARY CALVO

México encontra agrotóxicos em sangue de crianças após décadas de desastre ambiental — — MARY CALVO

Desde o fechamento da unidade industrial, o governo federal investiu mais de 21 milhões de pesos mexicanos (pouco mais de US$ 1 milhão hoje) no Plano Salamanca para remediar os danos. No entanto, seus objetivos permaneceram inacabados. Crédito da imagem: Ministério do Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais do México. Por Roberto Gonzalez para a SciDev Pesquisadores mexicanos encontraram […] […] México…

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Welcome to Reddit,the front page of the internet.Become a Redditorand subscribe to one of thousands of communities.×Diphtheria spike in Indonesia linked to an anti-vaccination movement mounted by Islamic orthodoxy (scidev. via Pocket

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[FR] La main-d'oeuvre est 3 fois plus chère à #Djibouti qu'à Mumbai en Inde #Corne2025 SciDev 21/02/17

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A study of the migration patterns of the spectacular Monarch butterflies led to a review paper on animal migration research, which I wrote about for SciDev.net. In a nutshell: A lot more research needs to be done to determine the effects of human interventions on animal migration - and how this will impact disease spread in animals and humans.

Image: Wikimedia

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Using internet technology to improve cage fish farming

#Igo [SciDev]Source: The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018, FAO. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO Data from the WorldFish Centre, an independent research institute headquartered in Malaysia, shows that fishing …