The level of hunger worldwide has dropped in recent years but 26 countries still face extremely dangerous food shortages and are threatened by rising prices, a major report said Tuesday.
Melbourne has edged out long-time front-runner Vancouver to be rated the world's most liveable city, a world-wide survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit said Tuesday.
New Delhi: Mexico and Papua New Guinea have come up with a proposal that could either end the continuing impasse at the UN climate talks or break down negotiations completely. The two countries have proposed that instead of working by unanimity, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change should decide on major issues by a simple majority.
As Papua New Guinea gives go-ahead to a Canadian mining company to dredge its coastal seabed for minerals, critics say environmental assessments have been inadequate, local objections ignored and new species of life could be extinct before they have even been discovered.
Replacing traditional foods with imported, processed food has contributed to the high prevalence of obesity and related health problems in the Pacific islands.
Talk about overestimation. Only 5.5 million species may share our planet, a much smaller number than the older, often quoted estimate of more than 30 million. Most vertebrates and plants and many microorganisms have been documented. Much of the uncertainty in such global estimates lies with arthropods, a phylum that includes insects and spiders.
One of the largest populations of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the world spends at least part of its life cycle in the remote Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea. This population is subjected to traditional harvests from geographically dispersed communities including along the northern and eastern coasts of Australia, Indonesia and south-western Pacific nations.
