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 When the Power of Mama firefighting group was established in 2022, 44 women volunteered. The group now has 92 members from six local villages, with ages ranging from 19 to 60. Most of the members are housewives, but younger working women have joined the unit recently too. Â
Nuraini has been up since dawn, cooking rice and tidying up the house. At 09.30, she heads into the forest on her motorbike, along with six other women. She is wearing a brown hijab with long sleeves emblazoned with the words "The Power of Mama" and knee-length rubber shoes.
It is the rainy season so, for now, there are fewer fires. The Mamas are on patrol duty, visiting farmers who grow beans, bananas, chillies, cabbage and pumpkins. These farmers practise slash-andA-burn agriculture, where forest cover and other vegetation is chopped down and burned to clear the land for cultivation. The farming method is allowed by the local government, as long as it takes place in an area spanning less than 20,000 sq m (215,217 sq ft).
The Power of Mama are also helping farmers boost the productivity of their land by encouraging them to use organic fertiliser to bring nitrogen back into the soil and enhance crop growth, instead of relying on slash-and-burn agriculture.
"These practices not only protect our environment but also ensure the long-term viability of farming while mitigating the impacts of climate change," says Nuraini.
Sixty-year-old Juriah, the oldest Power of Mama member, says the women are encouraging farmers to manage their land "like people did in ancient times".Â
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At a local school, two US military UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters were parked in a sports field, their camouflage-clad pilots and crew milling next to the aircraft.
"To see it now in the daylight," Ms Irwin said, "it is just tragic."
While officials have repeatedly stressed that their focus remains on the search for the missing, experts have warned that the incident could also have a significant impact on the port of Baltimore, one of the busiest on the US east coast.
Maryland Senator Ben Cardin told reporters that the re-opening of the waterway would be "critical" for the US economy.
The port is a key regional hub for goods ranging from steel and aluminium to agricultural equipment, and is used by car-makers including General Motors and Honda. Data from the Maryland Port Administration shows the port handled at least 750,000 vehicles last year. Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden - who said he had commuted over the bridge "many, many times" between his home state of Delaware and Washington - vowed to "move heaven and earth" to re-open the bridge. Mr Biden added that 15,000 US jobs "depend on that port". Officials have so far declined to comment on any potential timeline for that to happen. Authorities say that, for now, they are fully focused on the search and rescue operation.
Mr Moore, for his part, said only that the recovery process "will not be short". Baltimore, he acknowledged, was facing a "long road" after the collapse.
This is not the first time the Dali has been involved in an incident.
According to Vessel Finder, a tracking website, the ship was involved in another collision in the Belgian port of Antwerp in 2016. There were no injuries or significant damage reported at the time.
As night fell on Tuesday, the ship and its load of 3,000 containers remained on the Patapsco River, its nose stuck between the mangled debris of the bridge it brought down in seconds.
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At a local school, two US military UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters were parked in a sports field, their camouflage-clad pilots and crew milling next to the aircraft.
"To see it now in the daylight," Ms Irwin said, "it is just tragic."
While officials have repeatedly stressed that their focus remains on the search for the missing, experts have warned that the incident could also have a significant impact on the port of Baltimore, one of the busiest on the US east coast.
Maryland Senator Ben Cardin told reporters that the re-opening of the waterway would be "critical" for the US economy.
The port is a key regional hub for goods ranging from steel and aluminium to agricultural equipment, and is used by car-makers including General Motors and Honda. Data from the Maryland Port Administration shows the port handled at least 750,000 vehicles last year. Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden - who said he had commuted over the bridge "many, many times" between his home state of Delaware and Washington - vowed to "move heaven and earth" to re-open the bridge. Mr Biden added that 15,000 US jobs "depend on that port". Officials have so far declined to comment on any potential timeline for that to happen. Authorities say that, for now, they are fully focused on the search and rescue operation.
Mr Moore, for his part, said only that the recovery process "will not be short". Baltimore, he acknowledged, was facing a "long road" after the collapse.
This is not the first time the Dali has been involved in an incident.
According to Vessel Finder, a tracking website, the ship was involved in another collision in the Belgian port of Antwerp in 2016. There were no injuries or significant damage reported at the time.
As night fell on Tuesday, the ship and its load of 3,000 containers remained on the Patapsco River, its nose stuck between the mangled debris of the bridge it brought down in seconds.
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A Japanese nappy maker has announced that it will stop producing diapers for babies in the country and, instead, focus on the market for adults.
Oji Holdings is the latest firm to make such a shift in a rapidly ageing Japan, where birth rates are at a record low.
Sales of adult nappies outpaced those for infants in the country for more than a decade.
The number of babies born in Japan in 2023 - 758,631 - was down by 5.1% from the previous year.
It was also the lowest number of births on record in Japan since the 19th Century. In the 1970s, that figure stood at more than two million.
In a statement, Oji Holdings said its subsidiary, Oji Nepia, currently manufactures 400 million infant nappies annually. Production has been falling since 2001, when the company hit its peak - 700 million nappies.
Back in 2011, Japan's biggest diaper maker, Unicharm, said its sales of adult diapers had surpassed those for babies.
