(Bloomberg) — Dutch coalition parties seeking to form a government six months after an election say they plan to significantly reduce migration and undo environmental measures, in a rightward shift that may draw the ire of the Netherlands’ largest companies as well as the European Union. Most Read from Bloomberg The parties — led by […]
(Bloomberg) — Child migration through the Darien gap has increased by 40% so far this year and is set to hit a record for the fifth straight year, a United Nations agency reported Wednesday. Most Read from Bloomberg As many as 160,000 children could make the dangerous jungle crossing between Colombia and Panama this year, […]
Bird migration is synonymous with spring in Wisconsin. It starts with early migrators including waterfowl and continues with species such as red-winged blackbirds that travel perhaps a few hundred miles. It climaxes in May with with the arrival of the neotropical migrants, birds such as Baltimore orioles, great-crested flycatchers and bay-breasted warblers that have traveled […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations endorsed sweeping reforms to the bloc’s failed asylum system on Tuesday as campaigning for Europe-wide elections next month gathers pace, with migration expected to be an important issue. EU government ministers approved 10 legislative parts of The New Pact on Migration and Asylum. It lays out rules for the […]
GENEVA (AP) — Conflicts and natural disasters left a record nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, with violence in Sudan, Congo and the Middle East driving two-thirds of new movement, a top migration monitoring group said Tuesday. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center report found that the number of internally displaced people, […]
STORY: For the third time in seven months, Brazilian businessman Cassiano Baldasso had to remove wheelbarrows of mud from his home in Mucum, a small town 90 miles upriver from Porto Alegre. The ongoing flooding in Southern Brazil is forcing some of the half million displaced residents to consider uprooting their lives to higher grounds. […]
A judge has ruled that provisions of the UK’s Illegal Migration Act should be disapplied in Northern Ireland, as they undermine human rights protections guaranteed in the region under post-Brexit arrangements. Mr Justice Humphreys also said aspects of the Act were incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The post-Brexit Windsor Framework jointly […]
EICHSFELD, Germany (AP) — When Erdina Laca goes grocery shopping in Eichsfeld these days, she pulls out a special payment card that’s for asylum-seekers only. She no longer pays in cash for her apples, eggs and fish — like most of the Germans standing in line with her at the register. Laca, 45, came from […]
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama is on the verge of a dramatic change to its immigration policy that could reverberate from the dense Darien jungle to the U.S. border. President-elect José Raúl Mulino says he will shut down a migration route used by more than 500,000 people last year. Until now, Panama has helped speedily […]
Given Australia’s gigantic scale and wild nature, archaeological research can be difficult and costly. Where to start digging on such a vast continent, where the archaeological sites can often be remote and difficult to reach? Now a joint team of scientists from The University of Sydney, Southern Cross University, Flinders University, and Université Grenoble-Alpes has […]
BEAVER, WV (WVNS)– Guests had the chance to fly over to Little Beaver State Park on Saturday, May 11, 2024 for the Three Rivers Avian Center’s Migration celebration! The Migration Celebration is a family-friendly festival to celebrate West Virginia’s native wild birds and natural heritage. Festival-goers could enjoy bird and nature walks, displays, face painting, […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s defense minister said Thursday his country is strengthening the metal barrier along its border with Belarus to deter illegal migration. “We are mending the barrier on the Polish-Belarusian border, we are strengthening this barrier,” Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on private Radio Zet. “The spending on these purposes is the highest in […]