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Amazon faces “tipping point”, say researchers
The Amazon rainforest could face “large-scale collapse” by 2050, says new research.
COP28: All the climate crisis warning lights flashing red – in charts and maps
The great and good have assembled in UAE’s capital of Dubai for the COP28 conference to hash out a plan to avert the looming environmental disaster, but its probably too late.
COMMENT: Falling EM inflation enters a second phase, but rate cuts will progress slowly in 2024
Inflation rates are coming down across the Emerging Markets and are now entering a second phase, Capital Economics said in a note on November 28. Central Banks are getting ready to cut interest rates but rate cuts will come slowly.
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Baking land, bath tub warm seas, melting ice caps - in charts
The seas are the temperature of bath water and the land is baking. This year the rise the global temperature in June already passed the 1.5C limit compared to the 1850-1900 base set in the Paris Accords as the upper limit for global warming.
Banana crates from Ecuador now ‘usual suspect’ for Turkey's cocaine police
Potato and cheese shipments also popular with drug smugglers. Turkey’s Mersin port a top destination for narcos.