内容摘要：Houses and trees affected during the 2020 Cyclone Amphan sit on the water’s edge at Chila Bazar in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Houses and trees affected during the 2020 Cyclone Amphan sit on the water’s edge at Chila Bazar in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Alexa Mendoza, a biologist specializing in plastic contamination of the sea who is not involved in the project, said Petgas plan was a good initiative, but a “band-aid” for a massive global problem.“It doesn’t seem to me a solution to put a band-aid on it and say, ‘great, it’s solved and let’s do it,’ but rather it could be a first step,” Mendoza said. “From there, with the help of scientists you could take into account what needs to be adjusted so that it doesn’t become another source of pollution.”

For now, Petgas donates the fuel it produces to the local fire department and food delivery services.“The future is being able to really take production to a scale that has impact,” said Parraguirre Díaz.Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — On the southeastern coast of the city of Jayapura, Petronela Merauje walked from house to house in her floating village inviting women to join her the next morning in the surrounding mangrove forests.Merauje and the women of her village, Enggros, practice the tradition of Tonotwiyat, which literally means “working in the forest.” For six generations, women from the 700-strong Papuan population there have worked among the mangroves collecting clams, fishing and gathering firewood.

“The customs and culture of Papuans, especially those of us in Enggros village, is that women are not given space and place to speak in traditional meetings, so the tribal elders provide the mangrove forest as our land,” Merauje said. It’s “a place to find food, a place for women to tell stories, and women are active every day and earn a living every day.”

The forest is a short 13 kilometers (8 miles) away from downtown Jayapura, the capital city of Papua, Indonesia’s easternmost province. It’s been known as the women’s forest since 2016, when Enggros’ leader officially changed its name. Long before that, it had already been a space just for women. But as pollution, development and biodiversity loss shrink the forest and stunt plant and animal life, those in the village fear an important part of their traditions and livelihoods will be lost. Efforts to shield it from devastation have begun, but are still relatively small.The Israeli Ministry of Education says it will place the students into other Jerusalem schools. But parents, teachers and administrators caution that closing the main schools for the children of Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem promises a surge in absenteeism.

For students in the Shuafat refugee camp, like Laith, switching to Israeli schools means crossing the hulking barrier that separates their homes from the rest of Jerusalem every day.Some students aren’t even eligible to use the crossing, said Fahed Qatousa, the deputy principal of the UNRWA boys’ school in Shuafat. About 100 students in UNRWA schools in Shuafat have West Bank identifications, which will complicate their entry past the barrier, according to Qatousa.

“I will not in any way send Laith to a school where he has to go through a checkpoint or traffic,” Shweikeh said.In a statement to The Associated Press, the Israeli Ministry of Education said it was closing the schools because they were operating without a license. The agency promised “quality educational solutions, significantly higher in level than that provided in the institutions that were closed.” It said that it would “ensure the immediate and optimal integration of all students.”