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#883492012-06-04
"Land Is Our Natural Ally, But Its Patience Is Not Eternal"
BERLIN, Jun 4, 2012 (IPS) - Land degradation poses a threat to all life on Earth including humanity. To stop the enormous loss of life-giving land, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is pushing for a sustainable development goal of Zero Net Land Degradation (ZNLD) to ...
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#911822012-11-16
$100m for fishermen locked out of marine parks
Vast tracts of Australia's oceans have been formally declared as protected areas, as part of long-running efforts to establish the world's largest network of marine reserves.
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#892382012-07-16
$292 billion: the cost of fixing global fisheries
Research led by UBC experts says stocks would rebound if subsidies were dramatically reduced
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#931892013-04-11
$41 Million Allocated to Mitigate Threat of Foreign Species
As part of efforts to mitigate the threat of invasive alien species in the Caribbean, the Government has allocated some $41 million to the project.
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#900322012-09-05
'Alien mammal' invasion of Europe
Alien mammals, including mink, wild boar, racoons, shrews and beavers, have invaded Europe to a greater extent than we thought.
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#924102013-02-21
'Alien' wildlife in Europe wreaks €12bn damage a year, study shows
From tiger mosquitoes to ragweed, more than 10,000 invasive species are putting increasing pressure on the natural world
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#892362012-07-16
'Apocalyptic' summer for wildlife – except slugs, says National Trust
Conservationists fear local extinctions of insects, as wet conditions leave many species of plants and animals struggling
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#909432012-10-25
'Ash dieback' fungus Chalara fraxinea in UK countryside
A disease that has the potential to devastate the UK's ash tree population has been recorded for the first time in the UK's natural environment.
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#913362012-11-29
'Chill-Coma' Recovery: Cold Cricket Case Could Defrost Mysteries of Changing Climate
ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2012) — Biologists from Western University have discovered that insects recover from chill-coma by getting water and salt back where it belongs
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#937462013-05-17
'Crazy ants' from South America invading southeastern U.S.
AUSTIN, Texas, May 16 (UPI) -- Invasive "crazy ants" displacing native fire ants across the southeastern United States could have dramatic effects on the region's ecosystem, researchers say
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#894072012-07-23
'Dirty Snow’ Hastens Glacial Melt in Himalayas
KHUMBU, Nepal, Jul 21 2012 (IPS) - Every morning, as Gian Pietro Verza walks up the lateral moraine of the Khumbu Glacier in this Himalayan country’s north-east to take measurements, the wind makes colourful prayer flags flutter noisily. That same wind carries soot particles that are causing the ...
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#936362013-05-13
'Dramatic decline' warning for plants and animals
More than half of common plant species and a third of animals could see a serious decline in their habitat range because of climate change.
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#906242012-10-09
'Expenditure on bio-diversity must be looked as an investment'
Expenditure on conserving bio-diversity should be looked as an investment for future and the present global economic crisis should not discourage countries on investing more on this front, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said here today.
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#882012012-05-28
'Extinct' short-haired bumblebee returns to UK
A species of bee not seen in the UK for a quarter of a century is being reintroduced to the countryside.
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#917182013-01-09
'Extinction threat' for UK orcas
The UK's only known resident population of killer whales is at risk of becoming extinct, marine life experts fear.
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#917602013-01-14
'Ghost nets' said threat to marine life
CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Fishing nets left or lost by fishermen, known as "ghost nets," are threatening wildlife -- especially sea turtles -- in the sea off Australia, scientists say.
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#930402013-04-02
'Greener' arctic region seen with warming
NEW YORK, April 1 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say climate modeling predicts a much greener arctic in the coming decades with more trees and shrubs because of global warming.
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#926642013-03-11
'Historic' day for shark protection
Three types of critically endangered but commercially valuable shark have been given added protection at the Cites meeting in Bangkok.
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#908742012-10-22
'Indian economic policies destroying biodiversity'
Hyderabad : India's economic policies are destroying biodiversity and livelihoods on an unprecedented scale, civil society groups warned Tuesday.
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#936232013-05-13
'Know foreign languages and biodiversity' call
Kota Kinabalu: The licensed tourist guides have been advised to update themselves on existing and latest tourism products in Sabah so as to enhance their knowledge and quality.
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#920462013-02-07
'La Nada' in Pacific vexes climatologists
PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- NASA says satellite data shows the equatorial Pacific Ocean is now in its 10th month locked in what some call a neutral, or "La Nada" state.
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#933152013-04-18
'Living fossil' coelacanth genome sequenced
Researchers sequenced the genome of the coelacanth: a deep-sea fish that closely resembles its ancestors, which lived at least 300 million years ago.
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#916072012-12-17
'Missing' Polar Weather Systems Could Impact Climate Predictions
Dec. 16, 2012 — Intense but small-scale polar storms could make a big difference to climate predictions, according to new research from the University of East Anglia and the University of Massachusetts.
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#937702013-05-21
'Most fragile' Spain tops endangered species list
Ecologists have urged government action to tackle the 'alarming' crisis of 'biodiversity destruction' in Spain as data reveals that the country is the most vulnerable in Europe.
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#890612012-07-03
'No doubt' that climate change is playing a role in U.S. fires
A noted climate scientist says there is "no doubt" that climate change is "playing a role" in this year's series of record fires in the western U.S.
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#919732013-01-31
'No sell-off' for public forests
The government has announced that it will not sell off publicly owned forests in England.
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#907802012-10-19
'REDD+ actions can have varying impacts'
Impacts of actions under Reduction of Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) – a UN mechanism to stem deforestation and degradation – on biodiversity and carbon vary across forest types and landscape conditions, a new global assessment shows.
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#885032012-06-11
'Rio girl' Severn Cullis-Suzuki 20 years on
At the age of 12, she silenced the world for six minutes at the first UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. 20 years later, Canadian Severn Cullis-Suzuki has made her name known, and her voice heard.
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#888992012-06-22
'Rio+20 Has Become the Summit of Futility'
Twenty years ago, the United Nations summit held in Rio de Janeiro paved the way for landmark agreements on the climate and the environment. This year's meeting, on the other hand, has been widely criticized for its lack of vision in the face of accelerating degradation of the planet. German com ...
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#897512012-08-13
'Severe abnormalities' found in Fukushima butterflies
Exposure to radioactive material released into the environment could have caused mutations in butterflies found in Japan, a study has suggested.
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#899722012-08-30
'Spineless' animals under threat of extinction
A fifth of animals without backbones could be at risk of extinction, say scientists.
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#883272012-06-04
'Starving' crown-of-thorns starfish in mass stranding
Hundreds of crown-of-thorns starfish found on a beach in southern Japan in January stranded themselves because they were starving, say researchers.
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#896622012-08-06
'The lion of the cave:' new predatory, swimming cricket discovered in Venezuela
Scientists have discovered what is likely a new species of cricket that is the top predator of its lightless world: a cave in a Venezuelan tepui.
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#910232012-11-02
'Tree of life' constructed for all living bird species
Scientists have mapped the evolutionary relationships among all 9,993 of the world's known living bird species.
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#902242012-09-17
'Urgent action' needed on Clean Development Mechanism
A high-level panel has called for "urgent action" to safeguard the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) by providing extra support to under-represented developing countries and focusing on sustainable development priorities.
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#883782012-06-05
'a Tiger Journal' Features Interview with Keshav Varma, the World Bank’s Program Director for the Global Tiger Initiative (GTI), on World Environment Day
This theme for this year’s World Environment Day is the ‘Green Economy' something the UN describes as “an economy that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities.”
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#924472013-02-22
1.5C rise in temperature enough to start permafrost melt, scientists warn
Team of scientists use radiometric dating techniques on Russian cave formations to measure historic melting rates
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#890602012-07-03
10,000 sq mi of Congo rainforest declared World Heritage site
Central Africa has the newest World Heritage site. On Tuesday, the United Nations Education, Science, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared the Sangha Tri-National Protected Area complex (TNS) as a World Heritage Site for its density and diversity of rainforest wildlife.
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#901252012-09-11
100 most endangered species in the world
The Zoological Society of London has compiled a list of the 100 species in the world most likely to go extinct, from Bulmer's fruitbat to the Asian unicorn.
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#917722013-01-15
125 years of National Geographic – in pictures
National Geographic is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2013. Here is a selection of photographs published by the magazine and the stories behind them
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#915332012-12-10
137 new species described by California Academy of Sciences in 2012
In 2012, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 137 new relatives to our family tree, enriching our understanding of the complex web of life on Earth and strengthening our ability to make informed conservation decisions.
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#895072012-07-26
165,000 sq km of Colombian rainforest mapped in stunning detail using lasers, satellites
Scientists have created high-resolution carbon maps for 165,000 square kilometers (64,000 square miles) of forest across roughly 40 percent of the Colombian Amazon, greatly boosting the ability of the South American nation to measure emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, reports t ...
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#915262012-12-10
1990 IPCC Report Successfully Predicted Warming, New Study Shows
Time has proven that even 22 years ago climate scientists understood the dynamics behind global warming well enough to accurately predict warming, says an analysis that compares predictions in 1990 with 20 years of temperature records.
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#916442012-12-19
2 small companies recognized for tropical forest-friendly approaches
Two Latin American companies have won the WWF Switzerland Tropical Forest Challenge, a competition that aims to highlight and support for-profit entities that have a positive impact on conserving tropical forests.
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#891732012-07-10
2,600 scientists: climate change killing the world's coral reefs
In an unprecedented show of concern, 2,600 (and rising) of the world's top marine scientists have released a Consensus Statement on Climate Change and Coral Reefs that raises alarm bells about the state of the world's reefs as they are pummeled by rising temperatures and ocean acidification, bot ...
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#901182012-09-11
20 More Nile Rivers Needed to Feed Growing Population
The world needs to find the equivalent of the flow of 20 Nile rivers by 2025 to grow enough food to feed a rising population and help avoid conflicts over water scarcity, a group of former leaders said on Monday.
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#900682012-09-07
20 wetlands in North Kerala under threat
A survey carried out by the team of experts from the Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) has identified 100 wetlands in northern Kerala.
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#885082012-06-11
20 years after Rio 1992: company initiatives do make a difference
Building on decades of experience in sustainable development, Henkel is intensifying its cooperation with all stakeholders to develop viable solutions for the future
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#913182012-11-28
2012 expected to be ninth warmest year on record
World Meteorological Organisation data shows average global temperature to date is 14.45C, higher than long-term average
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#890272012-06-29
3 endangered Hawaiian bird species expanding their range
Three of Hawaii's rarest birds have been detected at lower elevations along the volcanic summits for the first time in 30 years, a sign the endangered species may be holding their own against introduced diseases and climate change, scientists say.