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    Asia Pacific

    Unpacking 2023, the Warmest Year on Record

    The 1.5-degree warming has led to widespread heatwaves, droughts, floods, stronger cyclones and a plethora of slow-onset disasters including glacier melting, coral breaching, land...
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    Innovation ‘Imperative’ for Securing Rice Production

    Genetic innovations and AI-driven tech can help mitigate climate risks for rice, says the International Rice Research Institute’s incoming chief. By Neena Bhandari Innovations in rice...
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    Forced Migration Grows, Justice Withers, Say Activists at World Social Forum

    Research found that 51 per cent of households migrated after being hit by cyclones, floods, salt water intrusion in their fields, erratic rainfall and...
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    Asia Pacific

    ADB Commits Record $10 Billion for Climate Finance

    Adaptation financing is critical in Asia and the Pacific which is experiencing more extreme heat, droughts, and heavy rains, but where investments in adaptation remain...
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    Asia Pacific

    How Asia Can Unlock $800 Billion of Climate Financing

    Asia-Pacific countries experienced, on average, six natural disasters a year over the past three decades – about twice as many as developing countries of...
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    Asia Pacific

    The Discourse on Modern Forms of Slavery Needs to be Mainstreamed

    Due to the hierarchical and inter-generational discrimination they have faced, communities discriminated on work and descent have been and continue to be subjected to...
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    Agriculture

    Becoming A Farmer : Where Women Are Already Farmers !

    The woman farmer outstrips Narayana Murthy’s model young worker who puts in 70-plus hours of labour each week, week after week. She does much...
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    China’s Young ‘Lie Flat’ Under Social Challenges

    The ‘lying flat’ or tang ping movement is a phenomenon that emerged in China in 2021. It describes the generations born in the late 1990s and...
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    India Sets 15-Day Deadline for Rural Job Scheme Complaints Under New VB-G RAM G Rules

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    US Startup Claims Breakthrough in Turning Mercury into Gold Using Nuclear Fusion

    Whether the process ever supplies meaningful quantities of gold will depend on breakthroughs still to come in fusion engineering and materials science.
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    US Startup Claims Breakthrough in Turning Mercury into Gold Using Nuclear Fusion

    Whether the process ever supplies meaningful quantities of gold will depend on breakthroughs still to come in fusion engineering and materials science.
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