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#1063292015-11-30
"The Eyes of the World are on Paris"
Paris, 30 November 2015 -The nations of the world gathered on Monday in Paris to reach a new and universal climate change agreement, in the knowledge that they have already delivered an almost universal set of national responses to meet the long-term climate challenge before the conference even ...
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#1100322016-09-16
$48 million fund to help expand marine protected areas
At the ongoing U.S. State Department’s Our Ocean 2016 Conference, in Washington, D.C., the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Waitt Foundation, the blue moon fund (bmf), and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), together announced a commitment of $48 million to expand and improve marine p ...
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#1060402015-11-09
'A one-off in human history': Stern's warning on climate change battle
Europe has to step up its effort to combat climate change and wake up to the urgency of the situation, the climate change expert Lord Stern has said before crunch UN talks in Paris later this month.
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#1072062016-02-12
'Abandon city!' - Climate experts warn of displacement and migration as sea levels rise
Scientists are working feverishly to understand the complex mechanisms driving sea level rise. Without drastic cuts in CO2 emissions, they say 20 percent of the global population may lose their homes to rising seas.
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#1088932016-06-15
'Biblical' moth influx threatens to devastate crops
Scientists have learned that cabbage and cauliflower crops could potentially be "devastated" by a species of moth arriving from continental Europe.
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#1093992016-08-02
'Climate change greatest threat to agriculture'
Steadman Fuller, custos of Kingston has described climate change as the single greatest threat to local agriculture and, by extension, the Jamaican economy.
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#1075922016-03-10
'Climate change threatens African crops'
Climate change will claim vast swathes of land needed to grow staple food crops in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly maize, bananas and beans, researchers have warned.
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#1097942016-09-02
'Coffee could be extinct by 2080': why climate change may eradicate your daily latte
Coffee could become extinct by 2080 if global warming continues to worsen, according to a report by The Climate Institute.
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#1077122016-03-18
'Culture an ally for achieving gender equality', says Director-General of UNESCO in New York
A high-level breakfast in the margins of the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations headquarters in New York, gave delegations from around the world the chance to debate the rich and complex relationship between culture, gender, and human rights.
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#1096462016-08-19
'Ecosystem canaries' provide early warning signs of catastrophic changes to ecosystems
'Ecosystem canaries' can provide early warning signals of large, potentially catastrophic, changes or tipping points in ecosystems, say researchers.
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#1074812016-03-03
'Facebook group' trade in endangered species causes outrage among conservation groups
Thousands of endangered animals have been traded illegally via Facebook forums, environmental groups claim.
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#1075212016-03-07
'Ghostlike' octopus found in Pacific may belong to new species
An underwater research craft has spotted a "ghostlike" octopus that appears to belong to a previously unknown species on the ocean floor near Hawaii, a discovery that highlights how little is known about the deep sea, a U.S. zoologist said on Saturday.
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#1088192016-06-06
'Go wild for life,' UN says on World Environment Day
5 June 2016 – Marking World Environment Day, which this year focuses on the illegal trade of wildlife, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is calling on everyone to “go wild for life” and take action to help safeguard species under threat for future generations.
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#1061832015-11-20
'Good' and 'bad' bacteria in the fight against citrus greening disease
New research from the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), the USDA Agricultural Research Service and the University of Washington finds that helpful bacteria living inside the insect that transmits the bacterial pathogen associated with citrus greening disease -- -an outbreak that is devastating Flo ...
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#1082802016-04-21
'It's a disaster': children bear brunt of southern Africa's devastating drought
In southern Malawi and Zimbabwe, drought is overwhelming communities, forcing families to rely on meals of leaves and watermelon soup
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#1100722016-09-19
'Let mangroves recover' to protect coasts
In Indonesia, a Wetlands International project uses permeable dams to restore sediment needed for the trees to grow. The charity says early results suggest "ecological restoration" is more effective than planting programmes.
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#1100812016-09-20
'Let mangroves recover' to protect coasts
Allowing mangrove forests to recover naturally result in more resilient habitats that benefit both wildlife and people, say conservationists.
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#1102532016-09-29
'Marine snow' drifts buoy life on ocean floor
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- New maps charted using sonar sensors on Autosub6000 have revealed the importance of "marine snow" to the distribution of biomass on the ocean floor.
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#1084632016-05-03
'Now is the time for implementation,' Ban urges session on integrating UN sustainability agenda
2 May 2016 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today underlined the importance of devising creative and coherent approaches in linking the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development as world leaders continue to work towards successfully implementing the U ...
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#1086892016-05-24
'One needs to understand biodiversity to protect it'
The need for coming up with initiatives to control the loss of flora and fauna was highlighted by experts on Sunday-International Day for Biological Diversity at the Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB). Experts also encouraged the youth to understand biodiversity in order to p ...
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#1070842016-02-03
'Range of Zika vector will increase with climate change'
DW asks emerging pathogens expert Amy Vittor about the connection between Zika and climate change. Researchers are using dengue as a reference point, as little is known about the new virus linked to a birth defect.
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#1101032016-09-21
'Red tape' locking small island states out of billions in climate funds
Commonwealth initiative aims to enable countries such as Vanuatu and Fiji to access $100bn pledged in Paris climate talks
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#1090462016-06-29
'Rule-breaker' forests in Andes, Amazon revealed by remote spectral sensing
It turns out that forests in the Andean and western Amazonian regions of South America break long-understood rules about how ecosystems are put together, according to new research.
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#1066662015-12-18
'Spirit of Paris': Cities take climate action to local level
Cities have massive carbon footprints, and how they develop is crucial for addressing climate change. The Paris climate summit allowed cities to unify - and post-Paris, cities' collective action is breeding green hopes.
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#1090132016-06-27
'Sweet business' of beekeeping helps protect Zimbabwe's forests
MUTARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Divas Matinyadze’s 47 beehives are hidden away in a dense patch of forest, along a narrow dirt path beside a small river in Mpudzi Resettlement Scheme.
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#1095942016-08-15
'The blob': how marine heatwaves are causing unprecedented climate chaos
First seabirds started falling out of the sky, washing up on beaches from California to Canada.Then emaciated and dehydrated sea lion pups began showing up, stranded and on the brink of death.
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#1077422016-03-21
'The future is happening now,' warns UN, calling for urgent measures to cut carbon emissions
21 March 2016 – The Earth is already one degree Celsius hotter than at the start of the 20th century, halfway to the critical two-degree threshold, and national climate change plans adopted so far may not be enough to avoid a three-degree temperature rise, the UN weather agency warned today upon ...
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#1078062016-03-24
'There was just no snow': climate change puts Iditarod future in doubt
After record high winter temperatures reduced parts of the course to a bone-jarring, sled-wrecking obstacle course, is the great mushing race on its way out?
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#1072212016-02-15
'Water scarcity' affects four billion people each year
In the western United States, disputes over the management of the Klamath River, which wends its way from southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean through northern California, have made blood boil for generations.
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#1060842015-11-12
'We’re reinvigorating traditional knowledge’: Indigenous rangers in remote Australia
A new report hails the best Indigenous initiatives run by government and recommends their expansion
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#1066792015-12-21
'Worthless words' or 'diplomatic triumph'? Climate scientists weigh in on Paris agreement
The general view of the Paris agreement reached last week among climate scientists seems to be that while it won't halt global warming, it is an important step in that direction.
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#1089612016-06-22
'Zombie corals' pose new threat to world's reefs
Scientists discover corals that look healthy but cannot reproduce, dashing hopes such reefs could repopulate bleached areas
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#1055412015-10-05
10 Million at Risk of Hunger Due to Climate Change and El Niño, Oxfam Warns
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 2 2015 (IPS) - At least ten million of the poorest people face food insecurity in 2015 and 2016 due to extreme weather conditions and the onset of El Niño, Oxfam has reported.
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#1089242016-06-17
10 conservation “fads”: how have they worked in Latin America?
In May 2013, the journal Conservation Biology published an editorial describing 10 conservation methods that emerged since the late 1970’s as fads, “approaches that are embraced enthusiastically and then abandoned.”
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#1077322016-03-21
10 facts about forests for International Forest Day
Today is International Forest Day, which was launched by the United Nations March 21, 2012 to promote the importance of forests and trees. In recognition of the designation, below are ten facts about forests.
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#1067122015-12-30
10 moments in 2015 that changed our environment
It was an outstanding year for the environment - in good and in bad terms. These were the most important moments of 2015.
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#1088242016-06-06
10 reasons to be optimistic for forests on World Environment Day
It’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of the world’s forests. Rates of forest loss remain persistently high, especially in the tropics and boreal regions.
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#1098022016-09-02
10-day IUCN World Conservation Congress begins
The world’s largest conservation conference gets underway in Hawaii
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#1095622016-08-11
16 new frog species spotted in Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary
Sixteen frog species and three snake species, which have not been spotted in the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary earlier, have been spotted during the first phase of a first of its kind reptile-amphibian survey carried there from August 5 to 8
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#1083052016-04-22
165 states queue up to sign UN climate deal
Countries are lining up to sign the Paris Climate Agreement at a ceremony at UN headquarters in New York on April 22. The treaty marks a turning point on paper, but still needs huge efforts to be implemented.
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#1095212016-08-10
20 science questions for US presidential candidates -
MIAMI - A coalition of US groups representing more than 10 million scientists and engineers published 20 questions on Wednesday they want every US presidential candidate to answer ahead of November's vote.
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#1077402016-03-21
20 sites added to UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserve
Lima, 19 March—The International Co-ordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme of UNESCO added 20 sites to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves during its meeting in the capital of Peru on 18 and 19 March.
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#1069392016-01-21
2015 declared the hottest year on record
It’s official: 2015 was the hottest year on record. Global data show that a powerful El Niño, marked by warmer waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean, helped to drive atmospheric temperatures well past 2014's record highs. Some researchers suggest that broader Pacific trends could spell even more ...
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#1069612016-01-22
2015 is hottest year on record
Geneva 25 January 2016 (WMO) - The global average surface temperature in 2015 broke all previous records by a strikingly wide margin, at 0.76±0.1° Celsius above the 1961-1990 average.
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#1067072015-12-29
2015: Biodiversity’s Year Of Integration
Biodiversity and endangered habitat have always been difficult to finance, because their economic value isn’t as readily-apparent as that of water, air, and food. In 2015, proponents managed to embed biodiversity protection in major climate-change and development packages, but there’s still a lo ...
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#1092402016-07-21
2016 on pace to be hottest year ever as climate change trends reach ‘new climax’– UN
21 July 2016 – Global temperatures for the first six months of this year reached new highs, setting 2016 on track to be the hottest-ever on record, the United Nations weather agency said today.
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#1085842016-05-12
28% of US bees wiped out this winter, suggesting bigger environmental issues
More than half of beekeepers suffered unsustainable losses, with deadly mite infestations and harmful land management practices piling on pressure
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#1086682016-05-20
40 million Indians at risk from rising sea levels: UN report
It said that changes in settlement patterns, urbanisation and socio-economic status in Asia have increased exposure to climate extremes.
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#1094582016-08-04
5 Key Takeaways From Alarming New Climate Report
An annual report that is sometimes called the planet's "physical" finds that 2015 was the warmest year since at least the mid to late 19th century. The year also marked several other milestones, from a record carbon concentration to an unusual number of tropical storms.
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#1067002015-12-29
5 Ways Animals Are Working for Cities
oyotes in New York City. Flying squirrels in Philadelphia. Bobcats in Los Angeles. We share our cities with a veritable menagerie. In an increasingly urbanized world, as animals lose habitat elsewhere, they’re likely to move in with us more and more. Some are pesky: termites in the walls, rats i ...