By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Saturday, October 26, 2024 United Reformed Church Hornsea, Feb. 27, 2013. | Wikimedia Commons/Martin Dawes/ Parents in East Yorkshire, England, are outraged after children were exposed to porn during a harvest sing-song at the United Reformed Church that was part of the church’s 150th-anniversary celebrations. During the sing-along in … Read more
Desertification has forced several communities in the Yusufari Local Government Area of Yobe State to flee their ancestral lands. Baba Aji, the local government chairperson, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, North-east Nigeria, on Friday. He said dunes had taken over lands and … Read more
An unusual infestation of cutworms is wreaking havoc in fields in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Témiscamingue, in northwestern Quebec, has been especially affected by the damage caused by cutworms — caterpillars that can destroy canola, potato and grain crops in a matter of days. Cutworms are found every year in small quantities in market gardens. But producers are … Read more
British Columbia grain farmer Malcolm Odermatt says all he can do is pray for rain this spring after repeated droughts sabotaged his harvest last year. Odermatt, who is also the president of the B.C. Grain Growers Association, has been working with his father since 2012 to farm about 2,000 acres of land in the Peace … Read more
Canada’s forestry sector is responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than show up in official tallies, potentially leading to policies that aren’t in line with the country’s climate goals, a new study suggests. The peer-reviewed study, published in the academic journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, found that annual greenhouse gas emissions attributable … Read more
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