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UNOC addresses shipping’s hidden impact on marine biodiversity
Hellenic Shipping News
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July 2, 2025
While discussions around sustainability in the sector often focus on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the impact on marine biodiversity is often underestimated. Marine biodiversity is crucial for maintaining the resilience of the ocean ecosystems...
Protests Rise Over Panama Canal’s New Water Project
Tico Times
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July 2, 2025
Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino on Tuesday defended the construction of a new reservoir for the interoceanic canal and criticized those who oppose the project, which aims to secure water supply for navigation. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP),...
The Panama Canal and its importance for Australia
Hellenic Shipping News
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July 2, 2025
In the light of President Trump’s recent comments, Professor Michael G.H. Bel discusses the significance of the Panama Canal for global freight, and considers how rising costs and proposed alternate routes may affect Australia’s supply chains....
El Salvador Attracts $322 Million in Foreign Investment in Q1 2025, Led by Panama, Spain, and the U.S.
El Salvador in English
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July 3, 2025
El Salvador continues to position itself as a rising destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Latin America, registering an inflow of $322.2 million in the first quarter of 2025 alone—a 64% increase compared to the same period in 2024,...
Venezuela and Haiti, the countries most vulnerable to climate change and with the fewest resources to adapt
El País
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July 2, 2025
Latin America and the Caribbean ranks second after Africa as the region of the world most vulnerable to climate change. This is true not only if factors such as its geographic location and topography are taken into account, but also if other...
Ambassadors of Panama and Peru Visit Saxion University of Applied Sciences
Diplomat magazine EU
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July 1, 2025
By Eduardo Antonio Carreño Campos, Carlos Enrique Díaz Villanueva and Kristoff Derveaux On May 7, Saxion University of Applied Sciences had the honor of welcoming the Ambassadors of Panama, H.E. Ms. Sally Loo Hui, and Peru, H.E. Ms. Franca Deza...
How AI and Drones Are Transforming Wildlife Conservation
AOL
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red eyed tree frog or gaudy leaf frog or Agalychnis callidryas a arboreal hylid native to tropical rainforests in Central America in panama and costa rica . Mistakenly also called the Green Tree Frog© worldswildlifewonders/Shutterstock.comWith the...
President Mulino’s First Year in Office – Panamanian Foreign Policy Achievements
Newsroom Panama
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July 1, 2025
During this period, the country’s foreign policy has been guided by the defense of national interests and the projection of Panama as a solid democracy and an open economy. This strategic vision has allowed it to strengthen alliances, attract...
First Quantum provides update on Cobre Panamá
MiningMetalnews.com
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First Quantum Minerals announces that Minera Panamá S.A., a subsidiary of First Quantum, has received approval of the Preservation and Safe Management program for the Cobre Panamá mine from the Government of Panama. This will allow for the...
‘Climate is our biggest war’, warns CEO of Cop30 ahead of UN summit in Brazil
The Guardian
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June 29, 2025
“Climate is our biggest war. Climate is here for the next 100 years. We need to focus and … not allow those [other] wars to take our attention away from the bigger fight that we need to have.” Ana Toni, the chief executive of Cop30, the UN climate...
The cost of conservation without consent: Astrid Puentes on rights-based environmentalism
Mongabay
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June 30, 2025
Astrid Puentes’s journey from Bogotá to the UN is shaped by a deep awareness of how environmental harm often mirrors social injustice. Early in her legal career, she confronted cases where pollution and exclusion disproportionately affected...
Japan launches a climate change monitoring satellite
Tribune Chronicle - Ohio
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Sunday successfully launched a climate change monitoring satellite on its mainstay H-2A rocket, which made its final flight before it is replaced by a new flagship model designed to be more cost competitive in the global...
Droughts push millions to starvation, says UN-backed report
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 3, 2025
New report, yesterday, raised concerns that droughts, fuelled by climate change and relentless pressure on land and water, have escalated, triggering cascading shocks to food, energy, ecosystems and human survival across the world. The report,...
First Phase of the Panama Railway Project will Improve Capital Access
Newsroom Panama
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June 29, 2025
During a meeting held Sunday in Seville, Spanish President Pedro Sánchez pictured below on the right, expressed to Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino, sitting on the left, the interest of Spanish companies in participating in key infrastructure...
The Panama Canal Promoted its Ambitious 10-Year Investment Plan in Spain
Newsroom Panama
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June 29, 2025
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) presented its investment plan for the next 10 years in Spain, amounting to approximately $8.5 billion, seeking to develop essential infrastructure projects for the future of the interoceanic waterway, ACP Vice...
Are Country-To-Country Deals The Future Of Climate Finance?
Forbes
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This aerial view shows a degraded area of the Amazon rainforest, near the Koatinemo indigenous land, ... More in Para state, Brazil, on June 12, 2025. (Photo by Carlos FABAL / AFP) (Photo by CARLOS FABAL/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images...
Dr. Charles E. Fuller
Park Rapids Enterprise - Minnesota
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July 2, 2025
Dr. Charles E. Fuller, 94 of Park Rapids, Minnesota passed away June 25, 2025 at Diamond Willow Assisted Living in Park Rapids, MN. He was born December 9, 1930 to Clifford A and Esther (Peysenske) Fuller. He was married on August 16, 1952 to...
Panama Canal Marks Nine Years Since Expansion with Growth in Transits and Tonnage
Hellenic Shipping News
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June 27, 2025
The Panama Canal Authority, today, celebrates the ninth anniversary of the canal’s expansion, reporting a rise in both transits and tonnage moved during the first eight months of fiscal year 2025 in comparison to the same period last year. Between...
Swarm and awe: US to use flies vs a pest
Inquirer
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July 3, 2025
In this Jan. 2024 photo provided by The Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Cattle Screwworms (COPEG), a worker drops New World screwworm fly larvae into a tray at a facility that breeds sterile flies in Pacora,...
Climate Change in Costa Rica Devastates Coffee Farms in Los Santos
Tico Times
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June 27, 2025
In Costa Rica’s Los Santos region, famous for producing nearly half the country’s coffee, farmers are reeling from heavy losses driven by wild weather. Climate change is hitting hard, with an estimated ₡11.5 billion ($22.1 million) in crop losses...