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Informed students are prompting adults to act on the issue
Smart Communications and Protect Wildlife jointly funded 20 portable digital classrooms, dubbed as School-in-a-Bag, in a bid to educate off-grid localities on wildlife and biodiversity conservation.
A recent study found that one-fifth of vertebrates on land are affected by the wildlife trade. The wildlife trade is driving extinction for many species. Earth is currently in the midst of the sixth mass extinction — so many species are at risk of being gone forever. And yet, the illegal wildlif ...
Landcare Australia and the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning are partnering for a fourth year for the 2021 Victorian Junior Landcare and Biodiversity Grants.
Scientific exploration and its impact on our everyday lives is laid bare as the Science Photographer of the Year 2020 opens today as an online exhibition.
When Melissa Burt, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, made a video about the climate crisis, it included images of her daughter, Mia.
The current COVID-19 pandemic is often imagined as a challenge humanity has to weather, with additional, different ones — including climate change — lurking right behind.
For more than 20 years the centre has been enabling people to learn about Scotland’s marine wildlife, habitats and seabirds
The Return and Earn Kraken – made from approximately 4,000 plastic bottles and cans – has descended on the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, to highlight the importance of recycling and the need to eliminate litter and plastics in our environment.
If it did nothing else, the emergence of Covid-19 a year ago underlined for all of us the importance of anticipating and preparing for – and, as appropriate, steering the course of – things that might happen in the future.
When the BBC made a film about the crisis in our oceans, it somehow managed to avoid naming the greatest cause of their ecological destruction: the fishing industry. The only significant sequence on fishing in 2017’s Blue Planet II was a heartwarming story about how kind Norwegian herring boats ...
WWF has compiled a list of animal species whose social behaviours make them self-isolation experts. Humans are social beings: we rarely go a day without some form of interaction – either in the workplace, at the shops or at home. The coronavirus crisis is forcing people around the world to spend ...
Sir David Attenborough's latest nature series has received five-star reviews from critics, one of whom says it may be the BBC's "best wildlife show ever". Seven Worlds, One Planet, the Mail's Christopher Stevens says, is "visually magnificent" and has photography that is "almost abstract in its ...
That was a recurring introductory remark at screenings during the recent 2020 Wild & Scenic Film Festival. Held each year in the bucolic foothills of the Sierra, the five-day festival screens more than 140 environmental films, from artful meditations on the beauty of nature, to distressing stori ...
A new project has kicked off in Seychelles to highlight the rich heritage of coral reefs and children as their custodian. Pareo is being implemented in Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion - a French department. Implemented by the "Research Institute for Development (IRD)," and funded by Europe, Fr ...
The group Ocean Project Seychelles has launched a new campaign targeting the use of balloons on the beaches which pose a significant threat to marine life.
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe says trying to inspire people is more effective
Every 17 years in the eastern United States, trillions of cicadas emerge from the soil to mate in gigantic swarms. For Brood X, or the Great Eastern Brood, that year has arrived again.
Have you taken an extraordinary photograph of a bird that you’re particularly proud of? Send us your pictures and stories of remarkable bird sightings – and we’ll publish a selection of them.
It has made The Great British Sewing Bee and spelling bee series Hard Spell but now the BBC is focusing on actual bees – by launching the UK’s first competitive beekeeping TV show.
The naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is to travel to Edinburgh to make an impassioned plea for urgent action to protect biodiversity and fight climate change. Sir David will address charity workers at Edinburgh University's McEwan Hall on Wednesday 11 March.
The 10th annual Social Good Summit took place on Sept. 22 at 92Y in Manhattan, with dozens of influential speakers from around the globe unifying their collective voices around the importance of climate change.
Understanding how people use and experience important places for living nature is essential for effectively managing and monitoring human activities and conserving biodiversity.
One of the annoying things about global warming—besides the likelihood it will ravage life on Earth—is all the new words we are expected to learn in order to track our descent into climate chaos.
13 June 2019, Mogadishu - A network of environmental journalists in Somalia – the first of its kind in the Horn of Africa nation - was today launched in the capital, Mogadishu.
South Africa joins the nations of the world in celebration of the World Wetland Day with this year's theme of: "Wetlands and Water". This year's focus highlights the role of wetlands as sources of freshwater and presents a call for actions towards the protection and restoration of wetlands.
In a busy world where love is a complicated affair, speed dating is one way to connect, but can it work to ignite more sustainable relationships with nature? Are we open to a romance with science and evidence?
Some have shared beautiful images of blossoms that are brightening back gardens while others have been spotting the delicate, colourful blooms as they take their permitted daily exercise. Even people confined indoors have contributed by peeking out of windows to glimpse and record the fleeting s ...
Nigerian eco-artist Stanley Aneto is on a mission to use his work to engage younger generations in environmental issues.
A new short film follows the journey of Juvenal Huari Castilla who travelled to the Amazon to log the rainforest. It's a personal story of growth and transformation. This three-minute mini-doc shows that, despite the challenges, it is possible to reverse the damaging impact that people are havin ...
From disseminating in-depth information on diverse subjects ranging from socio-economic issues, arts and culture to conservation and climate change, watching documentaries is a different experience altogether
Art can work wonders… and even save endangered species! This was the challenge taken up by the Urban Painting Around The World (UPAW) non-profit organisation on 4 and 8 July. The artists had the opportunity to create their works live in front of curious spectators, at the foot of the Monaco se ...
The students of grade III and IV of Delhi Public School, Nacharam learnt the definition of biodiversity by watching a video and taking a virtual pledge on October 25.
A group of the world's top climate change biologists, including Professor Pete Smith from the University of Aberdeen, have published an editorial highlighting how global movements of civil disobedience focused on climate change are playing an important role in increasing public awareness and eng ...
If you’ve ever furrowed your brow trying to remember what “mitigation” meant, you’re not alone. Many people don’t understand key terms experts use to talk about climate change, according to a recent study from researchers affiliated with the United Nations Foundation and the University of Southe ...
If you're feeling anxious about the state of nature and the climate following the IPCC report this week, hopefully these images from the 2021 BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition will give some respite and remind you of what we're trying to recover.
An art project along Sudbury's Junction Creek will help young students connect with nature and learn creative research practices.
Public concern about biodiversity may be on the rise, a new survey suggests. The 2019 Scottish Nature Omnibus survey found that 65% of people agree there will be less variety of life in Scotland over the next 50 years, compared to 63% in 2017.
The Sustainable Living Film Festival (SLFF) will meet audiences at Pera Museum in Istanbul between Nov. 19 and 22 to bring light to the Earth’s need for change during this extraordinary period of world history.
If there is one thing that bothers actor and United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador Dia Mirza, it’s the lack of “publicly acknowledging the problems” of increasing air pollution, climate change and the threat to biodiversity.
Switzerland has the highest proportion of threatened species in the OECD, according to Pronatura. However, a clear majority of the population thinks the situation is fine, according to a survey.
The former weather presenter Francis Wilson has said it is now more important than ever for TV forecasters to be serious experts “in a time of floods and fires” caused by global heating.
The Green School, a joint initiative of Tata Steel Foundation and TERI, participated in the ongoing World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) to showcase its work on climate change related issues and the various milestones achieved over the years.
Influenced by meet on biodiversity, Sudhakar of Chittoor turns a crusade.r One fine morning in October, 2012, G. Sudhakar, a government teacher, was flipping through a newspaper at a tea stall in Chittoor when he came across news pertaining to the Hyderabad Conference of the Parties to the UN Co ...
Joe Biden’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis need to extend to American classrooms with routine lessons on the threats posed by global heating, two former US education secretaries have urged.
“If we want to protect the ocean better, we must teach it better”, said Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO’s Director-General, speaking at the One Ocean Summit, taking place in the French city of Brest
It turns out Leonardo Da Vinci could be the key to tackling climate change, according to new research. Known across the world as one of the greatest artists and inventors to have ever lived, generations are still inspired by his life and works.
The Ark of Taste Netherlands’ Book is the latest addition to the global encyclopedia of local food products from countries like Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Kenya, with more books currently in the works.
Treeline, a new book by Ben Rawlence, explains how climate change is causing far-reaching shifts in one of our most important ecosystems.
The winning images of the 2020 British Ecological Society photography competition, taken by international ecologists and students, celebrate the diversity of the planet’s flora and fauna