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According to experts, so much glacier ice is lost in one year that it corresponds to the water consumption of the world’s population within 30 years. The preservation of glacier meltwater is essential for the climate, nature and people.
A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to pull thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers off the job in the United States and around the world. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency have moved swiftly to shutter USAID, AP is reporting.
Chile’s National Center for Artificial Intelligence (Cenia) has announced that it will coordinate a project, named LatamGPT to preserve Latin America’s multicultural identity. Cenia has the support of more than 30 institutions from Latin America and the Caribbean, and more than 60 experts from the region. The project will be launched in mid-2025, the Tico Times reported.
At least 773 people have been killed in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) largest city of Goma and its vicinity within a week, reports Al Jazeera. As always, the civil population carries the burden of the war between army troops and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who captured Goma last week.
The motto of the World Economic Forum 2025 ‘Collaboration for the intelligent age’ makes it clear: the fight against money laundering and financial crime through transparency and secure company identification.
Davos. – In the shadows of the global economy, criminal activities continue to thrive. The scale, sophistication, and impact of corporate fraud have reached unprecedented levels worldwide. The global economy is determined to confront these challenges head-on.
Under the theme “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age,” the World Economic Forum 2025 in Davos focuses on global cooperation and technological innovation. Among the key voices, Alexandre Kech, the newly appointed CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), demonstrates how the fight against financial crime can be revolutionized. GLEIF, a nonprofit organization founded by the Financial Stability Board of the G20, is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.
The Military Government of Mali accuses the Algerian leadership of “persistent interference” in its internal affairs. According to moroccoworldnews.com the Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf had stated that Mali’s military strategy was failing in the fight against terrorism and that a political solution would be necessary. “Mali neither seeks nor accepts lessons from Algeria, which, in recent history, conducted its fight against terrorism in full sovereignty,” the statement of the Mali Foreign Ministry said.
In December last year, the Malian government had summoned its ambassador to Algeria and accused Algiers to host meetings with “terrorists”, that are hostile towards Mali’s government.
Drone strikes by the Military Regime have “killed eight Tuareg rebel leaders in the town of Tinzaouatine” in the north of Mali, africanews reports reffering to a rebel spokesman. It has been “the first time since the start of the rebellion in 2012, that so many Taureg leaders have been killed in a single attack,” the story reads.
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UNO braucht 2025 47 Milliarden US-Dollar für humanitäre Hilfe
Genf (epo.de). – Im kommenden Jahr sind rund 305 Millionen Menschen auf humanitäre Hilfe angewiesen, warnen die Vereinten Nationen. In einem globalen Appell für 2025 ruft die UNO die internationalen Geldgeber dazu auf, 47 Milliarden US-Dollar zur Verfügung zu stellen.
Das Geld werde benötigt, um Lebensmittel, Medikamente und andere Hilfsgüter für Menschen in 32 Ländern und Krisengebieten zur Verfügung zu stellen, so die UNO. Besonders bedürftige Länder sind der Sudan, Syrien sowie der Gazastreifen.
UNO-Nothilfekoordinator Tom Fletcher erklärte bei der Vorstellung des Appells in Genf, die Welt stehe in Flammen. Man werde sich darauf konzentrieren müssen, diejenigen zu erreichen, die es am nötigsten hätten. Für gut ein Drittel der Bedürftigen werde man realistischerweise keine Hilfe finanzieren können.
Flechter beklagte, von den für 2024 benötigten 50 Milliarden Dollar seien bis November nur 43 Prozent eingegangen. Dies sei eine der schlechtesten Quoten in der Geschichte der UNO.
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Image credit: NASA/NOAA
“Since 1972, the U.S Geological Survey Landsat Earth Observation satellites have been providing scientists and policy makers with up to date data on a range of features of Earth’s surface, and the picture being painted is a grim one. Earth’s surface is changing rapidly: polar ice caps are shrinking, highly biodiverse areas are being destroyed , and oceans are growing increasingly polluted, among a raft of other environmental changes.
However, given the volume and availability of data that satellites have captured informing us of the ongoing impacts of human activity on Earth’s surface, an important question has to be asked — why has this knowledge not led to large-scale environmental action?”
Image: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery
The Arctic is warming up at a rate higher than the global average temperature. Both 2022 and 2023 were among the warmest years on record for the region. During the night of 22 September 2024, the air temperature in the town of Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland reached a record high of 15.3°C, Copernicus, the Earth observation component of the European Union’s Space programme, reported on Sept. 25.
According to Copernicus, this was the hottest September night in the history of the area, and one of the highest minimum temperatures ever recorded in Greenland.
High temperatures continued throughout the following days. Narsarsuaq recorded an unusual maximum air temperature of 18.9°C on 23 September, and the nearby town of Frederikshaab reached 16.9°C. The area around Frederikshaab is visible in this image acquired by Copernicus Sentinel-2 on 23 September 2024.
The Copernicus Sentinel satellites play a key role in monitoring remote areas around the world, including the Arctic, providing in particular important information on the impacts of climate change on the cryosphere.
Source: Copernicus
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