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#1327682022-01-27
A Sixth Extinction is ‘well underway’ but it can still be mitigated
In the history of life on earth there have been sixth mass extinctions of species with the most famous being the disappearance of dinosaurs from the planet. A Sixth Extinction is now upon us and this time the cause isn’t a force of nature but rather us.
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#1331602022-02-14
A Stocktaking of BRICS Performance in Climate Action
By 2100, global temperature rise (compared to pre-industrial levels) is expected to breach the 1.5°C limit goal determined in the 2015 Paris Agreement. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global emissions need to be halved over the next decade, with net-zero emissions ach ...
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#1231462019-11-27
A Third of Tropical Africa’s Plants At Risk of Extinction
One-third of — or more 7,000 — plant species in tropical Africa could be at risk of extinction due to climate change and human activities like logging, deforestation from agriculture, and mining, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.
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#1354162022-07-21
A Tool for Fighting Superbugs Has Been Found Deep in the Desert
IN NORTHERN CHINA, where the Gobi Desert meets the Tibetan Plateau, lies a vast expanse of rippling sand dunes, mountains, and bare rock.
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#1237142020-01-15
A Transformative Deal for Nature
In less than one year, delegates from around the world will gather in Kunming, China, to complete a new global agreement for protecting and conserving the world's natural systems. To succeed, they must bring together not just environmentalists, but also officials with the clout to effect change ...
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#1239542020-01-27
A Wild Ride: Wildlife In Sri Lanka
If you’re on a wildlife escapade in Sri Lanka, hold your breath because the country’s natural bounty is about to knock the wind out of you. A growing ecotourism hotspot, Sri Lanka boasts of an incredible number of endemic species and biodiversity.
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#1316982021-11-15
A balance between agriculture and emissions can be found by managing the water table level of peat soils
In Finland, peat soils account for only ten percent of agricultural land; yet they are responsible for more than half of the country's agricultural emissions.
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#1214352019-06-28
A biodiversity scientist explains the problem with our neat lawns
You won’t find many neater lawns than those Roger Federer and tennis stars from across the globe will play on over the next fortnight (July 1-14) at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club – better known as Wimbledon.
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#1279652021-04-07
A bird's-eye view on Labrador climate change, as drones inform on ice
From the ground, an ice highway near Rigolet looked as it always did to Eldred Allen: newly frozen over, with excited snowmobilers heading over it to their cabins, or on hunting and fishing trips.
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#1222722019-09-18
A brief guide to the impacts of climate change on food production
Food may be a universal language – but in these record-breaking hot days, so too is climate change. With July clocking in as the hottest month on Earth in recorded history and extreme weather ramping up globally, farmers are facing the brunt of climate change in croplands and pastures around the ...
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#1317682021-11-17
A brief history of minimal surfaces and the ants that love them
Consider a soap bubble. The way it contains the minimal possible surface area is surprisingly efficient. This is not a trivial issue. Mathematicians have been looking for better ways to calculate minimal surfaces for hundreds of years.
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#1222392019-09-16
A brief introduction to climate change and sea-level rise
Of all the consequences of a warming world, the idea that our oceans would rise is, on its face, one of the easiest to understand – and maybe the most terrifying. We’re land animals, after all. It’s been a long, long time since we were all sea life.
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#1293422021-06-15
A brighter future: How whitening the Wheatbelt could cool the climate
There aren't many things humans have made that are visible from outer space. WA's wheatbelt is one of them—and it could help us fight climate change.
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#1230512019-11-18
A century later, plant biodiversity struggles in wake of agricultural abandonment
Decades after farmland was abandoned, plant biodiversity and productivity struggle to recover, according to new University of Minnesota research.
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#1289772021-06-01
A circular food system can withstand crises like COVID-19—and provide delicious meals
There are many hard lessons learned from the pandemic. One is that our food system needs a serious reboot. Luckily, we need only look to nature's cycles for clues on how to fix it.
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#1347992022-05-31
A cloudless future? The mystery at the heart of climate forecasts
We hear a lot about how climate change will change the land, sea, and ice. But how will it affect clouds? "Low clouds could dry up and shrink like the ice sheets," says Michael Pritchard, professor of Earth System science at UC Irvine. "Or they could thicken and become more reflective."
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#1301832021-09-01
A cocoa bean's 'fingerprint' could help trace chocolate bars back to their farm of origin, finds a new study
A new study from the University of Surrey has revealed that biotechnology could be the missing ingredient in helping cocoa farmers get a better deal for their beans. Chocolate is a £61billion-per-year global industry that has seen the volatile price of cocoa lead to a surge in traders seeking to ...
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#1222412019-09-16
A combination of wood fibres and spider silk could rival plastic
Achieving strength and extensibility at the same time has so far been a great challenge in material engineering: increasing strength has meant losing extensibility and vice versa. Now Aalto University and VTT researchers have succeeded in overcoming this challenge, with inspiration from nature.
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#1351652022-06-30
A conservation failure in Sumatra serves a cautionary tale for PES schemes
The Kerinci Seblat landscape, a highly biodiverse rainforest in western Sumatra, is one of the Indonesian island’s crown jewels. Anchored by the 14,000-square-kilometer (5,405-square-mile) Kerinci Seblat National Park, its mountainous terrain is home to Sumatran tigers and elephants, more than 3 ...
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#1333312022-02-18
A conservation paradigm based on Indigenous values in DR Congo (commentary)
The Batwa Indigenous peoples lived in the Kahuzi-Biega forests of present-day Democratic Republic of Congo for centuries before Belgian colonial rule imposed formal change in 1937 with the establishment of the Zoological and Forest Reserve of Mount Kahuzi.
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#1340962022-04-18
A cracking selection of eggs in nature – in pictures
Whether we’re eating them or decorating them, there is no doubt that eggs play a prominent role in Easter activities. The environmental organisation WWF has carried out its own Easter egg hunt in its photo library and created a gallery of weird and wonderful eggs found in the natural world, from ...
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#1217842019-08-02
A dangerously hot climate, simmering political tensions: ‘This is not the summer of our youth,’ UN chief warns
Global warming and rising political tensions are dangerous and avoidable, Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters on Thursday, previewing the UN’s upcoming Climate Action Summit, and spotlighting geopolitical hotspots.
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#1234612019-12-16
A decade in review: Vote for the defining sustainability moment of the 2010s
As the 2010s draw to a close, edie has analysed the key movements and announcements that push sustainability and climate action from a niche activity to a global necessity. Cast your vote to decide which of the seven moments was most profound.
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#1257092020-11-16
A deep dive into Zero Hunger: the seaweed revolution
If just two per cent of the Ocean were to be sustainably farmed, the world could easily be fed, according to experts. In the first story of a two-part series looking at the opportunities and challenges facing Ocean farming, we take a look at the huge potential role of seaweed in mitigating clima ...
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#1289282021-05-31
A deep dive into organic carbon distribution in hadal trenches
Hadal trenches are one of the ocean's most extreme and least studied regions. Hadal zones, which begin at depths of around 6,000 meters, were once thought to be "biological deserts," but over time they have been shown to be teeming with life. However, the distribution and source of organic carbo ...
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#1253272020-04-29
A diet of high-iron beans improves health of anemic women in Rwanda
Anemia is a global health problem common in low-income countries. Severe cases can lead to fatigue, heart problems, and complications in pregnancy. When widespread, anemia can also weigh on national economies.
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#1279142021-04-06
A diversity of wildlife is good for our health
A growing body of evidence suggests that biodiversity loss increases our exposure to both new and established zoonotic pathogens. Restoring and protecting nature is essential to preventing future pandemics.
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#1288192021-05-25
A dozen dead whales have washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area
The number of dead whales washing ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area this spring continues to climb, with another massive gray whale seen rolling in the surf at Pacifica State Beach on Friday afternoon.
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#1314932021-11-04
A father and son’s Ice Age plot to slow Siberian thaw
In one of the planet’s coldest places, 130 km south of Russia’s Arctic coast, scientist Sergey Zimov can find no sign of permafrost as global warming permeates Siberia’s soil.
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#1320312021-12-03
A ferocious marine reptile with gnarly teeth for crushing prey was discovered in Colombia
The partial skull of an ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile, that looked like a swordfish was unearthed in Loma Pedro Luis, Villa de Leyva, in Boyacá, Colombia in the 1970s, according to a study published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. However, at the time, the specimen was incor ...
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#1291162021-06-07
A few common bacteria account for majority of carbon use in soil
Just a few bacterial taxa found in ecosystems across the planet are responsible for more than half of carbon cycling in soils. These new findings, made by researchers at Northern Arizona University and published in Nature Communications this week, suggest that despite the diversity of microbial ...
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#1354502022-07-26
A few jaguars now roam the Arizona borderlands—why that’s a big deal
When biologist Ganesh Marin first observed a jaguar on a preserve in northern Sonora, Mexico, in 2020, he was elated. The feline continued showing up on Marin’s grid of camera traps along the Arizona border, which indicated he was making the region his home. Marin nicknamed the jaguar El Bonito, ...
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#1192662019-01-07
A fight for our future: youth, climate justice and environmentally displaced people
The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants states that “migration should be a choice, not a necessity”.
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#1268152021-02-02
A fine-grained view of dust storms
A satellite-based dataset generated by KAUST researchers has revealed the dynamics of dust storm formation and movements over the last decade in the Arabian Peninsula. Analysis of this long-term dataset reveals the connection between the occurrence of extreme dust events and regional atmospheric ...
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#1260132020-12-03
A first step to plant made dengue virus vaccines
Researchers have used plants to produce virus-like particles (VLPs) of the dengue virus in a potential first step towards novel vaccines against the growing threat.
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#1296822021-07-26
A fish called Guppy named after a Trinidadian
Did you know that the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) was named after a Trinidadian? You may be wondering, how did this happen? Well, in 1866, Trinidadian Robert John Lechmere Guppy sent specimens of the fish from TT to the Natural History Museum in London.
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#1304372021-09-15
A flying great white shark: Chris Fallows’ best photograph
There is no more iconic species on the planet than the great white shark. Everybody knows what they are, even in the most landlocked countries on Earth, and people are fascinated by them.
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#1262522020-12-15
A forest in Sumatra disappears for farms and roads. So do its elephants
Jumar is no stranger to the presence of elephants. Having lived and farmed in the village of Pematang Pudu village in Bengkalis district, in Indonesia’s Riau province, for more than 20 years, he’s seen elephants wandering through his village and fields of sweet potato. And he has never become up ...
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#1288792021-05-27
A forest in a city: Maintaining Chandigarh’s green cover in the face of urbanisation
With Chandigarh’s growing reputation as nature’s paradise, every aspect of this man-made creation, originally spread over 47 blocks of 246 acres each, vindicates the visionary thinking of the early planners. Surely, Le Corbusier, Dr. M.S. Randhawa and others must be smiling at the evolution of C ...
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#1225542019-10-07
A fortress of ice and snow
After only a few days of searching, experts from the MOSAiC expedition have now found a suitable ice floe where they will set up the research camp for their one-year-long drift through the Arctic Ocean.
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#1265552021-01-11
A forum to fight ocean plastic pollution
As the second Malta Sustainability Forum prepares to kick-start online later this month, Malta’s first-ever Ocean Ambassador Alan Deidun explains why fighting ocean plastic pollution should be at the top of humanity’s priorities list.
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#1350202022-06-21
A framework for nature, people and planet
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II found that global warming is putting biodiversity and ecosystems at risk of extinction. These findings are in line with the fifth Global Biodiversity Outlook from the CBD and the range of IPBES reports.
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#1335472022-02-25
A fresh view of microbial life in Yellowstone's hot springs
Yellowstone National Park is home to more than 10,000 hydrothermal features. The park's hot springs, geysers, mud pots, and fumaroles are home to trillions of heat-loving microbes.
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#1193382019-01-11
A frozen history of climate change – in pictures
Buried deep under the Greenland ice sheet is a unique archive of life on Earth 40,000 years ago. Scientists are using this information to try to predict future changes to the planet
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#1305312021-09-23
A game changer that will help safeguard humanity': Philanthropies pledge record $5bn for nature protection
Nine philanthropic organisations have collectively pledged to provide $5bn for projects that advance progress towards a goal of protecting 30 per cent of land and ocean by 2030, in a donation that has been touted as the largest-ever private funding commitment for biodiversity.
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#1295522021-07-13
A genetically male strain of giant kelp can produce eggs
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen and their collaborators describe a strain of giant kelp that is genetically male, but presents phenotypic features of females. Their findings shed light on the molecular basis of how sexual development is initiated i ...
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#1250772020-04-13
A glimpse of the world without us
From a distance, Grand Cayman has never appeared more serene. In the days after the island closed its borders, drone footage captured stunning images of clouds of blue and emerald water surging towards a thin line of fresh white sand, barely touched by human footprints.
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#1186322018-10-23
A global ban on fishing on the high seas? The time is now
In recent decades, few scientists have sounded the alarm about the runaway fishing of the world’s oceans as loudly as marine biologist Daniel Pauly. Now Pauly, a professor at the University of British Columbia and principal investigator at the fisheries research group, the Sea Around Us, has bec ...
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#1298602021-08-10
A global database of diversified farming effects on biodiversity and yield
With the Convention on Biological Diversity conference (COP15), United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), and United Nations Food Systems Summit, 2021 is a pivotal year for transitioning towards sustainable food systems. Diversified farming systems are key to more sustainable food produc ...
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#1332802022-02-16
A global dataset for the projected impacts of climate change on four major crops
Reliable estimates of the impacts of climate change on crop production are critical for assessing the sustainability of food systems. Global, regional, and site-specific crop simulation studies have been conducted for nearly four decades, representing valuable sources of information for climate ...