Learn about the history and importance of Earth Day.
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Many humanitarian emergencies are at risk of further deteriorating in 2021 due to COVID-19, climate change, and conflict, according to a recent report released by the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
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Emirati and Israeli leaders agree to a historic peace deal brokered by the Trump administration.
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The climate crisis is disproportionately affecting people of color and low-income communities around the world. With more climate migrants expected to flee their home in the countries least able to cope in the coming decades, the impacts will be further destabilizing to developing countries. But developing countries are not the only places where environment racism pervades. It’s a global problem.
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Peace levels around the world have deteriorated over the past year, according to the Global Peace Index 2020, published by the Institute for Economics & Peace.
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Bluer skies and cleaner waterways may be short term benefits of an otherwise terrible global pandemic, but what will happen to the environment when the global economy restarts? Can any of these short term benefits be transformed into long term transformational environmental improvements?
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Millions of refugees and internally displaced people are vulnerable to the coronavirus, since violence forced them to leave their homes. Finding peaceful solutions to conflicts around the world has never been more urgent.
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Thousands of people in Kiribati and many other low-lying areas are expecting to die in their native-lands. Those who have hope consider migrating to a safer place. According to a 2018 World Bank report, 143 million people in South Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa could become climate migrants.
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China, the biggest producer of plastic in the world, is all set to ban disposable plastic items starting this year. The government ruled out regulations on Sunday to ban plastic bags and straws in major Chinese cities by the end of 2020 and across the country by 2022.
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