CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday. Firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the cluster of fewer than 200 Wollemi Pines in a remote gorge in the Blue Mountains a week before a […]
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Palau Co-Sponsors the United Nations Olympic Truce Resolution
In an effort to promote a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal, President Tommy E. Remengesau Jr. alongside the 193 state assembly of the United Nations co-sponsored the United Nations Olympic Truce Resolution. Upon a unanimous decision, the resolution was adopted on December 9th, 2019 setting the tone of peace for […]
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Youth plea to candidates, make climate change a platform issue
As the 2020 election draws near, a group of young people in Palau is seeking an opportunity to be heard by leaders and candidates on how climate change impacts their lives and the need for climate solutions. Alayna Alonzo, one of the Palauan kids of Heirs to Our Ocean said that climate change should be […]
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Calls for new approach after UN climate talks fail to deliver
MADRID, 24 DECEMBER 2019 — Pacific countries and climate activists are calling for an overhaul of how the world tackles climate change, after this month’s round of UN negotiations ended in failure. The outcome of the 25th iteration of the talks, known as COP, has been widely panned, with a small bloc of big emitting […]
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UN health agency signals tobacco might be reaching burn-out among men
GENEVA,20 DECEMBER 2019 — Two decades of increasing tobacco use around the world are set to go into reverse, UN health experts have predicted, after revealing data indicating that fewer men and boys are smoking than before. “For the first time the number of tobacco users is declining worldwide”, Dr Ruediger Krech, Director of the […]
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Low cost breast cancer medicine move good news for women: UN health agency
GENEVA,19 DECEMBER 2019 -More women could soon have access to an affordable version of an expensive life-saving breast cancer treatment, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. The UN health agency has prequalified the biosimilar version of the medicine trastuzumab, which has shown high efficacy in curing early stage breast cancer and, in some […]