“From extreme heat and rising sea levels to biodiversity loss and pollution, Mother Earth is in danger and makes a clear call to action: the need to shift to a more sustainable economy that works for both people and the planet.”
This is the message launched by the United Nations on International Mother Earth Day 2024, which has been celebrated annually on April 22 since 2009. “Let us mobilize for the planet and for all the life it supports,” he emphasizes. We can all take action to protect nature, tackle climate change and promote harmony with the Earth”.
“We can all take action to protect nature, address climate change and promote harmony with the Earth.”
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Both international institutions, such as NASA which encourages “taking a photo in your favorite corner of the world” and publishing it on social networks with the hashtag #GlobalSelfie, like other nationals, participate in this event from various countries around the world, including Spain.
The Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME-CSIC), for example, releases the documentary this Monday The secrets of the Planetdirected by Mario Cuesta, at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
It is one of the events that it will carry out this year to celebrate its 175th anniversary and highlight its work related, among many other aspects, to the study of the past, the prevention of geological risks (volcanoes, floods, earthquakes, etc.), preservation of natural resources (such as aquifers), the current ecological transition, economic development and heritage preservation.
The IGME also promotes the creation of geoparques of UNESCO in 16 African countries, preparing the staff of the geological services of this continent, where there are only two (that of Ngorongoro in Tanzania and that of M’Goun in Morocco). For comparison, Spain has a fortnight and is the second country in the world with the most geoparks after China.
For its part, the University of Valencia has also organized an international seminar this Monday. About twenty presentations by researchers from Europe, Asia, America and Oceania can be followed online and from the La Nau Cultural Center.
The presentations, which begin with one given by a team from India from the Vicente Ferrer Foundation, will address the importance of land preservation, the singularities of the indigenous population and the conservation of biodiversity through the maintenance of cultural practices around the world, among other topics.
An Earth for all and inclusive
To commemorate Earth’s Day and as a preview of Geolodía 2024 to be held on May 11 and 12, the Geological Society of Spain (SGE) has also recently organized the activity A trip to the past at the Somosaguas paleontological siteattended by a group of 25 students from the Capacis Foundation, a non-profit organization that works on the social and labor insertion of young people with borderline intelligence.
The event was held at the paleontological site located on the Somosaguas campus of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), where three paleontologists from its Faculty of Geological Sciences got the students to travel to about 14 million years ago to learn, through of fossils, large vertebrates and small rodents who lived in the extensive savanna that covered this territory.
This abstraction was possible thanks to the use of replicas of the remains of the animals found at the site and various workshops with which the young audience was able to excavate with real fossil material, becoming paleontologists for a day.
Students from the Capacis Foundation carry out a fossil search activity at the Somosaguas paleontological site near Madrid. / SYNC
One of the objectives was to adapt the route and the teaching materials to people with disabilities, so that everyone can have access to geological knowledge.
The event was attended by representatives of the Governing Board of the SGE, the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Community of Madrid, the managing bodies of the UCM and the Inclusive Science Office of the CSIC.
The love story of Martin Chodúr and Ivona Selníková
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When he won in 2009 Martin Chodur the first series of the singing competition Czech Slovak SuperStar, his girlfriend was waiting for him at home. She even recorded messages of support for him during the competition. However, the youthful relationship could not withstand the growing fame and success, and the lives of the students began to go in different directions.
It didn’t take long and the native of Ostrava ended up in the arms of another woman. There would be nothing so strange about that – if they weren’t separated by a seventeen-year age difference and Ivona Selníková wasn’t even married at the time!
She filed for divorce because of him
It was 2010 and Martin was only twenty-one years old. It was no wonder that no one gave his relationship with businesswoman Ivona Selníková, who could be his mother, much chance of success. But the singer always took it with a smile. “Some people are bothered by age difference, some are bothered by height difference, in the past people were bothered by racial difference, status difference, same-sex relationships, cultural difference, religious difference, the fact that a beautiful woman married an ugly man. Most importantly, love conquers all. Anyone who thinks not is simply an old grumbler,” he said in an interview for iDnes.cz. The beauty proved to him that she was serious about him when she filed for divorce. She threw away all certainties and plunged headlong into a new love.
They are now complete as a family
When, after five years of dating, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child, they took the wind out of the sails of all those who doubted them. On New Year 2016, a son was born to them, who was named after his father – Martin. It would be suggested that the wedding bells will be ringing soon, but nothing like that is coming, just like the second offspring. There are pragmatic reasons behind both. “I sang at a lot of weddings. Wedding as an institution, that ceremony, I don’t like it. As for getting married in a church, I’m not baptized. As far as a state wedding is concerned, it’s kind of like a state funeral. We did not deal with the second child because we were aware of the various complications that could arise. We are glad that Martínek is healthy. That everything turned out well,” the singer declared in the Extra Host program.
Both are dedicated to work and work together
Even if it would be suggested that after the birth of their son, both of them will slow down from their work pace, the opposite is true. Ivona works as Martin’s manager and, in addition, the CEO of a multinational cosmetics company. Martin, in turn, tours the entire republic with concerts. He performs with the most famous names in Czech show business. For this year, he set himself the goal of focusing on his own creative work. They fairly take turns in caring for their son. “We manage it ourselves and sometimes grandmas help,” the singer confided to Blesk. The old sayings prove that age is just a number. Even though the beginnings were not easy for the couple, because the parents of the singer and his much older partner understandably talked about it, they proved to everyone that they are a perfect match.
Photo: Jiří Černohorský / CNC / Profimedia
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France recognizes that its military can no longer carry out its missions in Niger
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Catherine Colonna, acknowledged in an interview published this Sunday in the newspaper Le Monde that the French military cannot “de facto” carry out its missions in Niger after the coup d’état at the end of July.
Asked if it is possible to maintain the French contingent in the African nation after the military junta has demanded its withdrawal, Colonna recalled that Paris sent its soldiers at the request of the previous authorities in Niger to promote the fight against terrorist groups and train to local formations. “Today, this mission can no longer be carried out, since we no longer have de facto operations carried out jointly with the Nigerien armed forces,” she explained.
At the same time, the chancellor expressed confidence that the French ambassador, Sylvain Itte, deprived of diplomatic immunity by the Nigerien junta, will be able to continue carrying out his duties. «We do not have to bow to the mandates of a minister who has no legitimacy, neither for the countries of the subregion, nor for the African Union, nor for the United Nations, nor for France. That’s why we keep our ambassador. “We are making sure that he can safely face the pressure of the coup plotters,” she stressed.
On the other hand, the head of French diplomacy did not give a definitive answer about whether her country’s policy in relation to Niger is in a “dead end”, and reiterated that her Government condemns the military coup and urges restitution of the ousted president, Mohamed Bazoum. In this context, she highlighted the efforts of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which are reflected in economic sanctions or the possibility of military intervention in Niger, to guarantee the return of the elected leader.
Likewise, Colonna stated that the era of the so-called ‘Francafrica’, a term with which Paris’s strategy to defend its interests in the former colonies is usually described, “died a long time ago.” In this way, he echoed statements in this regard by President Emmanuel Macron made during his tour of Africa. Then, the president indicated that his country chooses to be “a neutral interlocutor” in the region and does not intend to find a way to “interfere in the internal political exchanges” of the continent.
The demand by the self-proclaimed National Council for the Defense of the Fatherland (CNSP) for the French contingent, estimated at around 1,500 troops, to leave Niger’s territory reflects the growing anti-French sentiment in this nation. This translates into a wave of mass demonstrations demanding the end of the military presence in Paris. With RT
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