Alexandre de Moraes, secretary of public security

DURBAN Cheap Adidas Superstar , South Africa, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- The 14th World Forestry Congress (WFC) opened Monday in Durban.


The week-long conference is a platform for over 3,000 delegates from governments, the private sector, foresters, academics and the civil society to shape the policy agenda on sustainable development and the future of forests and forestry.


The Congress is an event of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the theme for this year is "Forestry and People Adidas Superstar Sale , investing in Sustainable future". This is the first time that the congress, held every six years since 1926, is witnessed on African soil.


South African Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Senzeni Zokwana officially opened the conference. He said forests and the forest sector continue to play a very important role in environmental services and people's lives in the world.


Zokwana also challenged other WFC member countries and organizations to carry out constantly research and development on timber quality, tree breeding and forestation relation with climate change.


Also on Monday, the FAO released the 2015 Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA2015) Adidas Superstar Shoes , which shows that the state of the world's forests is better than it was.


FAO Senior Forestry Officer Kenneth MacDicken was among those monitoring how the forests are faring.


"What we've seen is a continued forest loss in the tropics, not surprisingly," he said. "But the good news is that it's happening at a rate that is half of what it was in the 1990s. So, the deforestation rate is slowing."


He said more countries were sustainably managing their forests. As of 2014, 112 countries had national forest inventories. "Countries have more knowledge of their forest resources than ever before,"said the FAO report.


However Adidas Superstar Mens , between 1990 and 2015, there was a net loss of 129 million hectares of forest. The biggest forest loss occurred in Africa and South America.


Updated every five years, the report said while a direct impact of climate change on forests was hard to measure, indirect effects were being monitored. These included more large wildfires and destructive insects and diseases that were not killed off by milder winters.


According to FRA2015, plantations are expanding and supplying an increasing proportion of the world's wood. In the right place and managed sustainably, tree plantations can reduce the pressure to bring natural forest areas into production.


RIO DE JANEIRO Adidas Superstar Womens , Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- At least 19 people have died and another seven were injured in a series of shootings across the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, official sources revealed Friday.


Alexandre de Moraes, secretary of public security in the state of Sao Paulo, said the shootings took place on Thursday night, and were the "largest killing of the year." A total of 15 were killed in the city of Osasco Adidas Originals Superstar , three in Barueri and one in Itapevi, all in the metropolitan area of South America's largest city.


A 9mm pistol, commonly used by the Brazilian army, and 38 and 380mm guns, as used by the police, were used in the attacks at 12 different sites Adidas Superstar , feeding suspicions of police and military involvement.


According to de Moraes, investigators are working from the hypothesis that the killing spree could have been carried out by corrupt cops. They could have been seeking to avenge the murders of a policeman and a civil guard officer in Osasco and Barueri in recent days.


Witness statements show that all the attacks were carried out by masked men in a car. There was also report that the car was a silver Peugeot.


LOS ANGELES, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Do you feel it's easy to rage about something during the hot waves? Many people have suspected for a long time that if there is a causal relationship between heat and crankiness. A new psychological research result confirms that hot weathers do make people become cranky, according to a report published on Inc Thursday.


Two scholars from different business schools in Europe conducted a three-part study on the subject that exploring the impact of ambient temperature on helping others.


In the first part of the study, the researchers found that when the retail workers at a chain store were in an uncomfortably hot workplace, "they were 50 percent less likely to engage in prosocial behaviors, such as volunteering to help customers, listening actively, and making suggestions to customers," posted on Psychology Today last month.


Another part of the study recruited two groups of college students to complete a survey for a non-profit organization. One group was placed in an overheated room, while the other group of students were in a cooler and more comfortable room. The result is not hard to guess, that the participants in the cooler room were more willing to help.


The result showed that "only 64 percent of participants in the hotter room agree to answer at least one question compared to 95 percent in the cooler room#8#" Psychology Today noted.


The reason for such a result is that heat affects our body directly, and the high weather temperature can make your body temperature go up, and your heart beat rate and blood pressure rises at the same time, which is known to be related to the aggressive behaviors. According to the study, a comfortable temperature at workplace can bring high productivity for business owners, Inc reported.


Deep breathing is a good way to control or get rid of the heat rage. When you realized that you are going to be irritated#9# make a deep breath with a long exhale is "always going to be the quickest way to engage the "tending-and -befriending" mechanisms of you parasympathetic vagus system" , Psychology Today posted.


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