Pacific Green secures AU$77 million debt facility to accelerate BESS development in Australia
Sydney, Aug. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Green Technologies, Inc., a global leader in battery energy storage solutions, is pleased to announce that its Australian battery energy storage business has completed a financing raise with the Longreach Credit Investors and Australian Philanthropic Services Foundation. The syndicated facility provides up to AU$77 million over a 24–month...
The Asbestos Crisis Isn’t Over — Reversing the Ban Would Make It Worse
Asbestos exposure has profoundly impacted regions with significant military installations. Credit: Shutterstock
By Cristina JohnsonSAN MARCOS, California, USA, Aug 25 2025 – For more than a century, asbestos was an indispensable fixture in the American industry, particularly the military. This versatile natural mineral was widely utilized to line Navy ships and strengthen their installations....
Aid Funding Crisis Means Parliamentarians’ Visionary Leadership Even More Crucial
Dr. Alvaro Bermejo, Director General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) addresses the Let’s Discuss the Future of Africa Together seminar that took place last week (August 21) on the sidelines of TICAD9 in Yokohama City, Japan. Credit: APDA
By Cecilia RussellYOKOHAMA CITY, Japan & JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Aug 25 2025 – As funding for sexual and reproductive...
Zanzibar’s Blue Economy Offers Hope Amid Rising Seas and Gender Inequity
Saada Juma (L) works with fellow seaweed farmers at Jambiani coast in Zanzibar. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS
By Kizito MakoyeJAMBIANI, Zanzibar, Aug 25 2025 – At dawn on the white-sand shores of Jambiani, 45-year-old Saada Juma braces herself against the pull of the tide, wrangling ropes laced with seaweed. Her hands, hardened by decades of labor, move instinctively as she secures her aquatic...
UNICEF to Deliver 1.4 million Cholera Vaccines to Sudan Amid Supply Chain Breakdowns
Children and adults receive treatment at a cholera treatment centre in Tawila, North Darfur. Credit: UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal
By Maximilian MalawistaUNITED NATIONS, Aug 25 2025 – In Tawila, North Darfur State in Sudan, more than 1,180 cholera cases, including 300 cases in children, and at least 20 deaths have been reported since the first case was detected on June 21. Tawila has absorbed 500,000...
Sexual Violence Against Women, Children in War ‘Strategic’ and Growing
Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, briefs the Security Council during the meeting on women, peace and security. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
By Naomi Myint BreuerUNITED NATIONS, Aug 25 2025 – Sexual violence against women and children during wars should not be considered collateral damage. “It is strategy, it is systematic,...
‘The Surge in Executions Shouldn’t Be Mistaken for Strength – It’s a Desperate Act of a Collapsing Dictatorship’
By CIVICUSAug 25 2025 –
CIVICUS speaks about the Iranian regime’s execution of political prisoners with Safora Sadidi, a human rights activist with the Women’s Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Safora lost her father and six family members to the theocratic regime, and has dedicated over two decades to the Iranian Resistance’s...
Feminist Electrification: the Power Africa Needs
By Sudiksha BattineniWASHINGTON DC, Aug 25 2025 – Chad is one of the most extreme examples of energy poverty, with just 10% of the population connected to electricity, a rural electrification rate below 2%, and a global per capita electricity consumption rate that’s just 18% of the global average. This hinders its economic development.
So does its rapid population growth. Chad has one of...
Government Constructions Hit Water Recharge Area in El Salvador
A heavy storm caused flooding in areas of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, on August 16. These phenomena mostly occur during the rainy season, partly due to the environmental degradation of a water recharge area known as El Espino. Credit: Cruz Roja de El Salvador
By Edgardo AyalaSAN SALVADOR, Aug 25 2025 – Two construction projects pushed by the government of El Salvador, in a water...
Who Should Lead the UN Development Programme?
Following Achim Steiner’s June 2025 departure, the questions loom: Who will replace him? What sort of person does UNDP need? And why does it even matter? Credit: Shutterstock
By Felix Dodds and Chris SpenceSAN FRANCISCO, California / APEX, North Carolina, US, Aug 22 2025 – In June this year, UNDP bade farewell to Achim Steiner. The ninth Administrator in UNDP’s history had completed a...
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