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Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Dinsdag 5 Julie 2022
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Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Candle Technique in particular, stems from his keen interest in psychology.
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Climate change is causing endangered African wild dogs to give birth later
04:51Wildlife is responding and adapting to climate change in various ways. Some adaptations are more obvious. Flowering plants, for example, are blooming sooner each year in parts of the northern hemisphere as climate change draws the onset of spring progressively earlier in the calendar.Spotted hyenas all sound different when they call
04:10On quiet nights across large swaths of the African bush, you may hear a series of whooping calls in the distance. This unique sound is the long-distance vocalisation used by spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) to communicate with each other.For hyenas, it’s advantageous to know who is calling before deciding to respond. They don’t treat every member of their group the same – and the caller could even be an intruder in their territory.Climate change will cause more African children to die
05:32Climate change has already increased global temperatures, greatly increasing extremes. This will continue unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to “net-zero”. The 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement requires emissions reductions of around 50% in the next 10 years.Birds evolve different body temperatures in different climates
06:37During the northern hemisphere summer of 2022, yet another round of extreme heat waves roasted Eurasia, North America and northern Africa – a stark reminder that these conditions are becoming the new normal.Europe creating agricultural sinkhole for Africa
05:28As farmers protest across Europe, blockading cities, smashing through police barricades, and dumping manure, European politicians are falling over themselves to promise increased trade barriers against African food and agriculture imports.Capitalising on insects as high-quality protein
01:51There is a growing global interest in producing high-quality protein products from simple flies or fly larvae, to be specific. And two Cape Town companies are making food while the sun shines.More than 50% of US funds for ‘climate-smart’ farming do not help crisis
03:31More than half of federal funding for “climate-smart” agriculture in the US goes to farming practices that are unlikely to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and in some cases, would even increase them, according to a new report by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG).