Elon Musk changes Twitter logo; Photo: File Washington: Twitter owner Elon Musk has announced that he is changing the logo of the micro-blogging website and will introduce Twitter as a new and modern brand. According to the global news agency, Elon Musk expressed his vision of making Twitter a super app like China’s WeChat, saying…
“The challenges are many and they are serious”, Amina Mohammed said, highlighting the plight of the planet. “Almost all our indicators on the climate and ecological crises are pointing in the wrong direction.” She praised China’s role in being an innovator and believer in the power of multilateralism to overcome challenges through collection action, pointing…
“The effects of climate change are becoming more severe, and the number of people displaced across international borders is rapidly increasing,” said Ian Fry, independent human rights expert on climate change, who took up the new post last year. “In 2020 alone, 30.7 million people were displaced from their homes due to weather-related events. Droughts…
“It is troubling to see Tunisia, a country that once held so much hope, regressing and losing the human rights gains of the last decade,” Mr. Türk said, urging the country to “change course”. The UN human rights office (OHCHR) said that over the past three months, the Tunisian authorities have used security and counter-terrorism…
WhatsApp has added a floating action button to the user interface. Photo: Courtesy of WABTA Info Menlopark: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has brought a lot of changes to WhatsApp in particular, which users are happy with. Now there are new changes to the user interface with fundamental changes to the…
The California twospot octopus can change its RNA under changing water temperatures. Photo: File Boston: Scientists recently announced that they have read the complete genome (genetic properties) of a type of octopus and now announce that the same octopus changes its RNA depending on cold and hot water. We’ve already learned that octopuses are evasive,…
According to the United Nations report, 2 million people have died due to climate change in the last 50 years, who belong to poor countries. Photo: File Geneva: A report issued by the United Nations has said that 2 million people have died in the last 50 years due to climate change and the global…
Wednesday morning in the Chilean capital of Santiago, Ms. Mohammed met at the Palacio de La Moneda with President Gabriel Boric to discuss the acceleration of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the country. The President delivered the National Strategy for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The UN Resident Coordinator…
Nimra Khalid, from Karachi, has been awarded the Visionary Award by the Guggenheim Foundation, New York, in recognition of her work on urban planning and the impact of climate change. Photo: File Karachi: Pakistan’s urban designer and climate change expert Nimra Khalid has won the ‘Inspiring Award’ under the Guggenheim Foundation Museum in the US….
WMO latest State of the Global Climate report shows that the last eight years were the eight warmest on record, and that sea level rise and ocean warming hit new highs. Record levels of greenhouse gases caused “planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean and in the atmosphere”. The organization says its report, released…
