Wild cities Costa Rica ‘Sweet City’: the Costa Rica suburb that gave citizenship to bees, plants and trees A suburb of the country’s capital is showing how urban planning can be harnessed to benefit both humans and wildlife Read more stories from our wild cities week From Guardian Article Wed 29 Apr 2020 14.00 BST Last […]
Global Peace Index
Global Peace Index 2019 Global peacefulness improves for the first time in five years, but the world continues to be less peaceful than a decade ago. The average level of global peacefulness improved very slightly last year on the 2019 Global Peace Index (GPI). This was the first time that the index improved in the […]
Covid Impact on Global Tourism
COVID-19 – a global insight on travel and tourism impacts UNWTO & Data Partners 21 April 2020 According to UNWTO’s Report on COVID – 19 Related Travel Restrictions, as of 6th April, around 96% of all worldwide destinations have introduced travel restrictions in response to the pandemic. • About 43% (90 destinations) have […]
Dry Counties
Science & Environment Climate change: US megadrought ‘already under way’ By Matt McGrath BBC Environment correspondent Article source: https://www.bbc.com/news/science_and_environment Related Topics Our Planet Matters Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES A drought, equal to the worst to have hit the western US in recorded history, is already under way, say scientists. Researchers say the megadrought is a […]
The State of Biodiversity – new UN Report
What is biodiversity for food and agriculture? Gardens in Sri Lanka Executive summary THE STATE OF THE WORLD’s BIODIVERSITY THE STATE OF THE WORLD’s BIODIVERSITTY FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ISSN 2412-5474 The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture presents the first global assessment of biodiversity for food and agriculture worldwide. Biodiversity for […]