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#225. September 2023
Facebook's news retreat: A death knell for independent MENA local news
Blog: Global Voices
Facebook's evolving relationship with the news industry, algorithm adjustments, and their repercussions on local media outlets add complexity to the landscape of news dissemination, particularly affecting smaller, independent media outlets.
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#39. April 2024
Environmental defenders work to maintain the peace-building role of nature in northern Uganda
Blog: Global Voices
"... [T]here is an urgency to revise the ways in which the value of nature is integrated into current existing peacebuilding and development policies in Uganda."
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#421. Mai 2024
A network of journalists in northern Nigeria is fostering peace and reconciliation through their work
Blog: Global Voices
" ... [W]e should remember to write to live because if you write and you set the nation ablaze, you will also be affected."
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#525. März 2024
Facebook posts - Old news about CNN anchor exit repackaged as 'breaking' news
Blog: PolitiFact - Rulings and Stories
"BREAKING: Top CNN host is out as ratings collapse."
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#630. Januar 2024
Sentiment, Confidence, News: January 2024
Blog: Econbrowser
The Conference Board's confidence index is up, following U.Michigan's survey of sentiment. Figure 1: University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment (blue), Conference Board Consumer Confidence (tan), and Shapiro, Sudhof and Wilson (2020) Daily News Sentiment Index (green), all demeaned and normalized by standard deviation (for the displayed sample period). Michigan December observation is preliminary. The News Index observation for […]
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#719. Februar 2024
Understanding Tobago's disastrous oil spill
Blog: Global Voices
The spill's effects on the Petit Trou Lagoon – located on the coast of Lowlands, Tobago – has caused utmost concern, given the area is ecologically sensitive with dense mangrove cover.
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#814. September 2023
How climate change is affecting farmers in Tobago
Blog: Global Voices
Decreasing yields are a result of increasingly tough growing conditions, with extremely dry weather in some growing seasons, and over-saturated soils in others, when there is extreme rainfall.
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#94. Juli 2023
One woman's mission to protect mangroves in Belize
Blog: Global Voices
"We're not only getting rain wash erosion, but [also] high impact wave erosion on the other side because we've removed all our mangroves and continue to do it with impunity."
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#1014. März 2024
Argentine resistance hinders Milei's forest and glacier destruction
Blog: Global Voices
Ultra free-market president Javier Milei has not so far been able to get cuts to environmental regulations through Congress.
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#1122. August 2023
Barbados ramps up efforts to protect scarce water resources
Blog: Global Voices
A multi-million dollar project will strengthen Barbados' water supply by incorporating renewable energy into systems, promoting rainwater harvesting, and raising awareness of how the climate crisis affects the situation.
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#1226. Juni 2023
Rethinking education in the context of sustainable development in Trinidad & Tobago
Blog: Global Voices
With little to no time to waste as climate change and other environmental issues accelerate at alarming rates, a comprehensive approach to empowering the next generation is needed.
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#1325. März 2024
Guyana's rainforests play a central role in expanded eco-tourism efforts
Blog: Global Voices
"Even with a lucrative timber sector, the country's annual deforestation rate averages at about 0.06 percent — a whopping 90 per cent lower than other tropical countries."
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#1431. Januar 2024
Could the Caribbean bridge the gap between culture and sustainability?
Blog: Global Voices
Tobago's thriving culture, which includes farming and food festivals, is one example of the intersection of creative industries and concepts of sustainability like eating local and growing one's own food.
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#1518. Februar 2024
Flying fish and bearded fig trees are on the decline in Barbados
Blog: Global Voices
Flying fish landings have reportedly decreased by almost 50 percent since 2011, and without strategic conservation measures, Barbados could see the bearded fig tree disappear from the landscape.