Policymakers urged to adopt new approaches for global crises
International land use scientists have urged policymakers to develop new approaches in addressing climate change, biodiversity loss and other global crises.
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IFS ‘Women in Science Public Contact List’ launched
The International Foundation for Science (IFS) ‘Women in Science Public Contact’ list has been launched as part of commemorating this year’s ‘International Day of Women and Girls in Science’.
Coordinated action to reverse biodiversity loss: needed urgently!
Halting, then reversing the ongoing loss of Earth’s plant and animal diversity, requires far more than an expanded global system of protected areas of land and seas, scientists have warned.
‘Teenage girls among those who risk partner violence most’
Domestic violence was ‘highly prevalent’ before COVID-19. But those at a greater risk of facing this violent ‘pandemic’, now, are women and teenage girls in lower-income countries, a study has revealed.
IMU reschedules ‘2022 International Congress of Mathematicians’
The ‘2022 International Congress of Mathematicians’ (ICM) billed to take place in Saint Petersburg, will now hold virtually, outside Russia, between the 6th and 14th of July, 2022.
New framework of indicators for achieving SDGs
An article by a team of scientists has proposed a set of measurable targets that can be used in scenario analysis for achieving all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
IMA holds ’23rd General Meeting’ in France
The French Society for Mineralogy and Crystallography will host the ’23rd General Meeting’ of the ‘International Mineralogical Association’ between 18–22 July 2022, in Lyon.
Nominations on for ‘TÜBA Academy Prizes’
Opened since last month, nominations for the ‘2022 TÜBA Academy Prizes’, will close on April 15, 2022.
‘Young’ Russian geologists attend ‘Asyltash Children’s School’
Aside theoretical lectures they received, Russian schoolchildren who attended the ‘Asyltash’ Geological School, performed practical tasks in radiometry, structural geology and petrography. Abdulsalam MAHMUD reports.
Tech transfer to bolster Africa’s COVID-19 fight
Egypt and Nigeria, with other 4 other African countries will soon access the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, along with knowledge needed to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines, courtesy of the World Health Organisation.
