Quito, Apr 11 (Prensa Latina) Public education in Ecuador is presently going through a complicated situation, with budget cuts and with no school reinsertion plan, some students and teachers warned while calling on Government to declare an emergency in the sector. The post Neoliberal policies impact negatively on education in Ecuador first appeared on Prensa Latina.
The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature. These changes could transform tundras from carbon sinks into carbon sources, exacerbating the effects of climate change.
Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto, has emphasized that the government regularly prepares scenarios to reduce the impact of global
As anyone with seasonal allergies knows, unseen airborne particles can really wreck a person's day. Like the tree pollen that might be plaguing you this spring, small concentrations of trace elements in the air can have significant negative impacts on human health. However, unlike pollen counts and other allergy indices, which are carefully tracked and widely available, limited knowledge exists about the ambient concentrations of cancer-causing trace elements like lead and arsenic in urban areas...
Some deeper areas of the Great Barrier Reef are insulated from harmful heat waves—but that protection will be lost if global warming continues, according to new research.
By Brendan Murray and Alex Tanzi (Bloomberg) — The MSC Aries wasn’t much different from the other 7,000 container ships plying the high seas, until it took an involuntary detour near
The tax rule change hopes to bring houses back into use as full-time, permanent housing
Decision by European court of human rights around vulnerability of older women to heatwaves marks significant shiftA landmark legal ruling at the European court of human rights could open the floodgates for a slew of new court cases around the world, experts have said.The Strasbourg-based court said earlier this week that Switzerland’s failure to do enough to cut its national greenhouse gas emissions was a clear violation of the human rights of a group of more than 2,000 older Swiss women. The...
Since November, attacks on container vessels in the Red Sea have seriously disturbed one of the most used trade routes globally. The Iran-backed Houthis have launched more than 40 attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea and in the Gulf of Aden, one of them being fatal. Despite the military intervention of the United […]
China has seen its high-end Nvidia RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 D prices increase recently, writes IT Home. Citing reports in the Taiwanese media, it adds that this trend has now spread to other products further down Nvidia's card hierarchy, with add-in board partners set to raise prices by around 10% on average.Read Entire Article
South Africa's government is calling for public comments on an updated version of its existing biodiversity economy plan.
The lawsuit contends that Native American youth are particularly vulnerable to the addictive aspects of these platforms due to their profit-oriented design choices.