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President-elect Joe Biden is planning to nominate Janet Yellen to head the Treasury Department. Business Insider reports if the US Senate confirms Yellen, she will be the first woman to hold the job. Yellen served as Fed Chair during President Barack Obama's second term, from 2014 to 2017. President Donald Trump replaced her with Jerome Powell as head of the Fed. If confirmed, Yellen will face an immense set of challenges, including the pandemic, unemployment, and widespread housing and food insecurity. With both parties fiercely divided on its size and reach for months, Congress still hasn't approved a second coronavirus economic aid package.
President Obama announced a plan on Friday to expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, making it the largest protected area in the world.
Commerical fishing will be banned from more than 582,500 sq miles of the Pacific Ocean with U.S. President Barack Obama's expansion of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Panama City, Jun 8 (EFE).- Panama created on Tuesday a Pacific reserve of more than 67,000 square kilometers, almost the size of the country, raising the protection of its marine areas to 30 percent and becoming the second nation in Latin America to achieve it within the United Nations' 30X30 Initiative framework.Panama has an area of 75,517 square kilometers and the so-called Coiba Cordillera Managed Resources Area (ARMCC), located in the eastern Pacific, has 67,908.98 protected square kilometers. (Camera: CARLOS LEMOS).SHOT LIST: THE GOVERNMENT OF PANAMA SIGNS AN EXECUTIVE DECREE TO CREATE A PACIFIC RESERVE IN PANAMA CITY, PANAMA.SOUND BITE: THE PRESIDENT OF PANAMA, LAURENTINO CORTIZO (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: The signing of this executive decree is an important step to protect the biodiversity of our country and the conservation of the environment at a global level.
Buenos Aires, Apr 1 (EFE).- Uncontrolled fishing by commercial fleets just outside Argentine territorial waters is harming the ecosystem even as some operators violate human rights through the use of virtual slave labor, Greenpeace says.(CAMERA:Veronica Dalto - Greenpeace Julieta Barrera)
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