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Climate change threatens pokkali rice variety in Kerala

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Climate change threatens pokkali rice variety in Kerala

The traditional cultivation of pokkali rice, an ancient variety of rice that helps combat climate change, is threatened by the focus on shrimp farming in Kerala. Farmers in the region usually spend half the year on pokkali and the other half on prawns, but the Kerala Fisheries Department issued an order in 2022 that farmers … Read more

Rising sea levels threaten a ‘mass exodus’, UN alert

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Rising sea levels threaten a 'mass exodus', UN alert

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, addressed the UN Security Council this week noting that the continued rise in sea level will generate “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale”, for which he insisted that it is necessary to reduce carbon emissions and address factors such as poverty, which have an impact on … Read more

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