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SIDS must hold major banks, rich nations to account on climate finance pledge
Jamaica Observer
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June 22, 2025
Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation with responsibility for water, environment, climate change and the blue and green economies, Matthew Samuda (left) greets Dr Milton Clarke, environmental specialist at...
The Wegovy effect: A drug reshapes lives of teens facing obesity
BDNews24
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High-school freshman Austin Smith sank into depression from the merciless teasing and bullying he endured from his classmates over his weight. By age 15, Katie Duncan felt unhealthy and self-conscious from the excessive weight she carried, but...
The Wegovy effect: A weight-loss drug reshapes the lives of US teens battling obesity
The Straits Times
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June 21, 2025
High-school freshman Austin Smith sank into depression from the merciless teasing and bullying he endured from his classmates over his weight. By age 15, Katie Duncan felt unhealthy and self-conscious from the excessive weight she carried, but...
The Wegovy effect: A weight-loss drug reshapes the lives of teens battling obesity
The Economic Times
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June 20, 2025
High-school freshman Austin Smith sank into depression from the merciless teasing and bullying he endured from his classmates over his weight. By age 15, Katie Duncan felt unhealthy and self-conscious from the excessive weight she carried, but...
What hurricane season was like the year you were born
KONO 101.1 - Texas
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June 16, 2025
The fast winds, rapid rainfall, and huge storm surges of hurricanes make this natural disaster responsible for hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars in damages each year. Hurricanes have wreaked more havoc than any other type of natural...
Bulletin highlights successes, opportunities and challenges of WMO at 75
World Meteorological Organization
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June 17, 2025
In WMO Mandate – A Call for Funding, Celeste Saulo writes that WMO is central to global safety, security and development, with a mission that drives the collection, analysis and dissemination of vital climate and weather data worldwide. “This core...
8-mile manure spill in Monroe County kills hundreds of fish
Public News Service
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By Nina B. Elkadi for Sentient. Broadcast version by Judith Ruiz-Branch for Wisconsin News Connection reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration At least eight miles of a Southwest-Wisconsin stream were polluted by a manure spill...
Paraguay Set For New Residency Record With Over 15,000 Applications Already
The Asunción Times
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June 20, 2025
2025 is shaping up to be another landmark year for residency in Paraguay. With over 15,000 residency applications already filed in the first quarter of 2025, Paraguay is on track to set a new residency record after filing 29,124 residency...
Allie Ayers Was Basically Summertime Personified in These SI Swimsuit Photos
Sports Illustrated - New York
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June 19, 2025
Imagine a world where SI Swimsuit model Allie Ayers’s jaw-dropping Atlantic City photo shoot didn’t exist? Well, this was almost the case, as Ayers was close to saying goodbye to modeling before she participated in Swim Search as a time finalist...
WI farmer education collab helps save money, environment
Public News Service
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A new effort is helping Wisconsin farmers protect water quality in their communities by learning more about how to prevent manure and fertilizer spills and runoff. "Nutrient Management Farmer Education" is a collaboration across six counties in...
Nancy Carolyn Westmoreland: 1935-2025
Sonoran News - Arizona
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June 19, 2025
Rest in Peace, great wife, daughter of Frankie Bryan Upham and Alvan Stowell, and survived by her husband of 53 years, Preston Westmoreland, and three children residing in Texas, Donald Kent Rodman, Wendy Sue Rodman and Steven Ross Rodman. Nancy...
What 1,200 miles on a paddleboard taught a writer about ‘blue space’
The Public's Radio - Rhode Island
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June 18, 2025
Dan Rubinstein and a friend set out from Port Hope, Ontario, on September 15, 2023. (Dianne Shiels)A direct trip from Ottawa to New York City can take about 90 minutes. By commercial airplane, that is. Journalist Dan Rubinstein took a longer,...
What 1,200 miles on a paddleboard taught a writer about 'blue space'
WQLN - Pennsylvania
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June 18, 2025
Updated June 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM EDT A direct trip from Ottawa to New York City can take about 90 minutes. By commercial airplane, that is. Journalist Dan Rubinstein took a longer, greener option. Or, maybe, a bluer option. He elected to paddle...
After crackdown on illegal miners, Indigenous Munduruku still grapple with health aftermath
Mongabay
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June 16, 2025
In November 2024, the Brazilian government launched an operation to oust illegal gold miners from the Munduruku Indigenous Territory in the Amazon Rainforest. However, there was little government action to address health issues in the aftermath of...
Ohio foodbanks: Funding needed for fresh food with local roots
Public News Service
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Ohio food banks are urging state lawmakers to approve what they said is a modest budget increase needed to get more fresh, local produce into the hands of hungry families. The request coincides with National Fruits and Vegetables Month and a...
How Fugitives Launder Funds Using Fake or Foreign TINs
Justice News Flash
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June 17, 2025
An In-Depth Look at How Criminals Exploit Global Tax Identification Systems to Move and Hide Illicit Wealth VANCOUVER, BC – In the cat-and-mouse game between international law enforcement and white-collar fugitives, Tax Identification Numbers...
Strategic Logistics Vision: Building Regional Readiness for Today and Tomorrow
Dialogo Magazine
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June 18, 2025
The Seventh annual Senior Leader Logistics Symposium (SLLS) 2025, a key forum for promoting logistics interoperability, was carried out June 4-5, at U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) headquarters. The SOUTHCOM-sponsored symposium aims to strengthen...
CCCCC to Celebrate 20 Years of Regional Climate Leadership with Anniversary Banquet, Awards Ceremony
Win Media SKN
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June 16, 2025
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) institution mandated to coordinate the Caribbean’s response to climate change, is proud to announce the celebration of its 20th Anniversary. This milestone...
Türk Updates Human Rights Council: "We Need The Strongest Possible Defence Of International Law And Human Rights"
Scoop
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk 59th session of the Human Rights Council Global Update Geneva, Monday 16 June 2025 Mr. President, Excellencies, distinguished delegates, As we meet, conflicts are spiraling. The...
Agric Minister Takes Lead On Saving Sagging Sugar Fortunes
Channel 7 Belize
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Between fusarium and an extended rainy season, It's been a rough year for sugar, and insiders say the industry is teetering on the edge of a major downturn, the likes of which have not been seen in more than a decade. Tonight, the story is that...