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#1193402019-01-11
Research: What Africans in five nations think about climate change
From flooding to drought, countries across the African continent experience climate change in environmentally and economically diverse settings – but what do its citizens really think about it?
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#1193412019-01-11
World Premiere of “Opening the Earth: The Potato King” Announced
The film ”Opening the Earth: The Potato King” will celebrate its world premiere in Santa Barbara at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Jan 30-Feb 10, 2019. The film celebrates Peruvian Julio Hancco, one of the few remaining guardians of biodiversity left in the world.
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#1193422019-01-11
Establishing the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard. The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law, passed by Congress in July of 2016, directed USDA to establish this national mandatory standard for disclosing foods that are or may be bioeng ...
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#1193432019-01-11
We Are All DukDukDiya: Humming Bird with One Drop of Water at a Time
There is a Quechan fable about a hummingbird named Dukdukdiya. During a fierce forest fire, while all other animals stood in stunned fear, Dukdukdiya alone took action by repeatedly carrying a single drop of water in her beak to the flames.
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#1193442019-01-11
Welcome home: iguanas are reintroduced to Galápagos island after 200 years
A group of 1436 land iguanas have been reintroduced to Santiago Island (Isla Santiago) – the fourth largest of the Galápagos islands – after an absence of more than 200 years.
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#1193452019-01-11
'Is this a brown recluse?' A year of looking at spiders
In 2017, a group of us decided to tackle the ever-present problem of spider misidentification by creating the Twitter account @RecluseOrNot. Focused mainly around the eponymous recluse spiders – particularly, but not limited to, the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa) – our account uses social me ...
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#1193462019-01-11
Researchers see a wealth of potential for aquaculture in the Caribbean
There are only so many fish in the sea. And our appetite for seafood has already stressed many wild fisheries to the breaking point. Meanwhile, the planet's growing population will only further increase the need for animal protein, one of the most resource-intensive types of food to produce.
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#1193472019-01-11
New policy design needed to tackle global environmental threat, according to report
A pioneering new report has devised a seven-point plan to help policymakers devise new, coherent and collaborative strategies to tackle the greatest global environmental threats.
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#1193482019-01-11
Sciences participatives et biodiversité : en net progrès
Ce week-end, chacun est invité à compter les oiseaux de son jardin (ou de sa cour d'immeuble) afin de participer à un grand recensement annuel.
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#1193492019-01-11
Asian indigenous peoples’ IPR on biodiversity endangered
Indigenous and tribal peoples of Asia are facing complex threats to their survival as distinct peoples. Not only are they confronted with dispossession of their lands, resources and physical persecution, they are also faced with the appropriation of their collective knowledge on plants, trees, a ...
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#1193532019-01-14
Science with borders: A debate over genetic sequences and national rights threatens to inhibit research
There is something that is weighing heavily on the minds of some infectious diseases scientists these days. It’s not the challenging Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, though that is deeply concerning. It’s not a new flu virus or slashed research budgets or laboratory safety ...
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#1193542019-01-14
Entomologist names recently discovered beetles after ‘Game of Thrones’ dragons
Brett Ratcliffe has discovered and named more than 200 species of scarab beetles, but with his last three discoveries, he surprised everyone by naming them after “Game of Thrones” dragons.
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#1193552019-01-14
See How This Non-Profit Is Using The Blockchain To Clean Up The Niger Delta
Cleaning up the oil spills along the Niger Delta is no quick or easy task.Yet for one 501(c)(3) non-profit it's dedicated to alleviating the oil spill issues by Shell and other companies, which are impacting people's lives, through the use of the blockchain.
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#1193562019-01-14
Lobster fishery likely to continue inside federal Eastern Shore Islands protected area
Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans appears ready to allow lobster fishing inside the proposed Eastern Shore Islands marine protected area.
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#1193572019-01-14
Massive Drought Leaves Over One Million Dead Fish Carcasses Reeking And Rotting In 'Major Ecological Event
Drought has killed up to one million fish in Australia, leaving the country’s government grappling with how to deal with what have been described as apocalyptic scenes. Rotten fish are lining the banks of the Murray-Darling Basin in New South Wales, with the regional government saying that the s ...
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#1193582019-01-14
Biodiversity is more than just the forests
TOO often when we talk about biodiversity, it evokes a notion of forest destruction or species extinction. To many, it is just about the environment. Little do we realise, however, that in fact biodiversity is the foundation for human health.
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#1193592019-01-14
Forgotten Crops of the Past
Dr. Jesus Garcia gets calls all the time from people who’ve found some long-forgotten plant growing in a patch of dirt somewhere in the hot dry desert around Tucson, Arizona. Over the years, he’s become something of a plant detective, having identified a white pomegranate growing in a grandmothe ...
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#1193602019-01-14
Panel formed to suggest ways to weed out invasive species
Expressing serious concern over exotic invasive species having stifled the growth of native shola forests and grasslands on the Western Ghats, the Madras High Court on Friday constituted an expert committee to suggest ways and means to remove the alien species and rehabilitate the forests.
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#1193622019-01-14
We must build resilience to climate change impact now!
News from scientists last week that the world's oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace is cause for even greater focus on the need for small island developing states to craft and implement resilience-building instruments.
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#1193632019-01-14
Best snorkeling spots in the Caribbean
Unlike scuba diving, which requires more gear and more courage, snorkeling is a breeze for underwater sightseers. All it takes is a mask and a tube, a pair of fins, an inflatable life vest and a sense of adventure.
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#1193642019-01-14
The two-decade journey of Biodiversity Festival
Month-long festival to commence at Arjun Naik Tanda today It’s almost been two decades since the Biodiversity Festival (Pata pantala Jatara) has been initiated by Deccan Development Society (DDS) near Zaheerabad.
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#1193652019-01-14
Integrated pathways for meeting climate targets and ensuring access to safe water
IIASA researchers have led work to develop new pathways to developing water and energy infrastructure consistent with both the Paris Agreement and U.N. Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6)—to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
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#1193662019-01-14
Watch how air pollution moves across Europe
This is what pollution looks like on a European scale.The animation shows the concentration and movement through the atmosphere of nitrogen dioxide. NO₂ is a problem gas that is produced primarily by vehicle exhausts and industrial activity via the burning of fossil fuels.
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#1193672019-01-14
UBC researchers develop climate change video game for classroom use
A team of University of British Columbia researchers is creating a video game where Vancouver high school students can experience how their individual choices can minimize the effects of climate change.
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#1193682019-01-14
Climate change brings extreme weather
In the past, scientists were reluctant to attribute particular extreme weather events to climate change. But for the second consecutive year, they have done so with confidence.
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#1193692019-01-14
Globalization 4.0 will help us tackle climate change. Here’s how
Climate change – arguably humanity’s most existential challenge – requires urgent global action.As the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2019 will show only too clearly, environmental crises – notably a failure to tackle climate change – are among the likeliest and highest-impact risks t ...
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#1193702019-01-14
Seven-point plan to help tackle growing threat of climate change: Report
A seven-point plan may help policy-makers devise new, coherent and collaborative strategies to fight the greatest global environmental threats, according to a report.
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#1193712019-01-14
The Honey Olive Grove: A Sustainable Solution
It has been launched on the EU platform, Climate Innovation Window, which embeds the EU Horizon2020 project BRIGAID, aimed at effectively bridging the gap between innovators, investors and end-users in resilience to floods, droughts and extreme weather.
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#1193722019-01-14
India reports to the Biodiversity Secretariat that it is on track to achieve its targets
India submitted its sixth national report to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) last month which reveals that it is well on track to achieve majority of its 12 national biodiversity targets by 2020. It highlighted that India has already overachieved one target.
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#1193732019-01-15
New Wynwood Mural Uses Augmented Reality to Spark Conversation on Climate Change
At NW Third Avenue and 25th Street in Wynwood, you'll be greeted by an alligator, a coyote, a manatee, and more than a dozen other examples of Florida's dwindling biodiversity. It's one of scores of new murals that appeared in Wynwood this past December.
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#1193752019-01-15
Sheep dung: Fertilizing Rajasthan’s fields
Rajasthan’s grazing sheep help protect biodiversity and combat desertification. But nomadic pastoralism is risk of dying out due to climate change, growing populations and increasing farmland.
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#1193762019-01-15
Fixing the environment: when solutions become problems
In a world where climate change, air and water pollution, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, ozone depletion, and other environmental problems overlap, a fix in one arena can cause trouble in another.
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#1193772019-01-15
Pak: Magnificent Beasts
Remember Blu? That loveably awkward macaw from “Rio”? As of 2018, the Spix’s macaw, upon which Blu was based, has been declared extinct in wild habitats.
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#1193782019-01-15
To save the rainforest, we need to work with the palm oil industry
Lots of academics worry that focusing too much on the real-world impact of research threatens pure, curiosity-driven science. But really the two go hand in hand, especially when it comes to solving the complex question of how we achieve sustainability despite increasing human pressures on our pl ...
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#1193792019-01-15
Biodiversity Institute expected to stay ‘intact’
The Biodiversity Institute is expected to remain “intact in its outreach, administration of the Program in Ecology, and convening of activities” through at least the 2020 fiscal year under a plan Ed Synakowski, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, will present to the Board of Tr ...
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#1193802019-01-15
Why the ocean holds the key to sustainable development
It is only 12 years until 2030, the deadline for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The world has set itself an ambitious task.
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#1193812019-01-15
How much can forests fight climate change?
When it comes to fighting global warming, trees have emerged as one of the most popular weapons. With nations making little progress controlling their carbon emissions, many governments and advocates have advanced plans to plant vast numbers of trees to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ...
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#1193822019-01-15
Coral Microbiomes Offer Clues for Resilience and Conservation
Some coral species might be better equipped to adapt to a warmer, more acidic ocean. Finding out which ones, and why, could be the key to saving reefs around the world.
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#1193832019-01-15
World Health Organization: From climate change to HIV and Dengue, these are the 10 global health risks to watch in 2019
There are several health challenges around the globe. These vary from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles also called rubella, and morbilli and diphtheria which is a contagious disease, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesity to the health impa ...
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#1193842019-01-15
Are We Living Through Climate Change’s Worst-Case Scenario?
2018 was not an easy year for planet Earth. Sure, wind and solar energy kept getting cheaper, and an electric car became America’s best-selling luxury vehicle. But the most important metric of climatic health—the amount of heat-trapping gas entering the atmosphere—got suddenly and shockingly worse.
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#1193852019-01-15
Why protecting 'blue carbon' storage is crucial to fighting climate change
Human actions have boosted carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to levels higher than any measured over the last 160,000 years. Rising concern over the risk of severe impacts from climate change is spurring research into ways in which ecosystems may mitigate global warming by storing ...
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#1193862019-01-15
To meet climate change targets, India must enable Adivasis to conserve its natural forests
At the Katowice Climate Change Conference in December, Indian negotiators fought for firm financial commitments to the global climate kitty from historical emitters. India has committed to achieving its goals under the Paris Agreement.
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#1193872019-01-15
Human hazards hamper vampire bat venom research
Vampire bats could hold the key to new treatments for a range of serious medical problems, but researchers have hit a snag accessing the specimens needed to advance their work.
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#1193882019-01-15
Biology of our ancient ancestor takes shape
The recent discovery of a new lineage of microbes has overturned biologists' understanding of the evolution of complex life on Earth. Genomic studies of Asgard archaea revealed that they carry many genes previously thought to be found only in nucleus-bearing eukaryotes, suggesting they may be cl ...
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#1193892019-01-15
DBT, ICAR signs MoU for R&D activities in agricultural biotechnology research
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has undertaken several activities and programs to promote Biotechnology Research & Development in the areas of Agriculture Biotechnology.
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#1193902019-01-15
Romeo, once the loneliest the frog in the world, finds a mate!
More than ten years ago, biologists collected Romeo — a Sehuencas water frog — from a stream in Bolivia. They knew that the species was in big trouble and a conservation effort had to be urgently ramped up, but despite numerous subsequent searches, no other specimen had been found.
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#1193912019-01-15
Biodiversity research at Stanford
Truly grasping the importance of biodiversity means diving down into the microscopic organisms in our soils and out to human social relationships affecting our ecosystems. The more we know, the better we can address threats to species diversity.
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#1194052019-01-16
Liberia Makes ‘Progress’ in Addressing Climate Change
Liberia has officially launched the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) project to take new approaches in addressing impact of natural disasters.
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#1194062019-01-16
The Bahamas’ iconic conch could soon disappear
When you're a conc, mating is better in a group. In fact, it’s the only way it works. These slow-moving Caribbean sea slugs carry heavy pink and orange shells, which make chasing down mates cumbersome. To be successful, a mating ground must have some 50 or more conchs spawning at once.
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#1194072019-01-16
'Zebra' tribal bodypaint cuts fly bites 10-fold: study
Traditional white-striped bodypainting practiced by indigenous communities mimics zebra stripes to reduce the number of potentially harmful horsefly bites a person receives by up to 10-fold, according to new research published Wednesday.