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#1195042019-01-18
Plastic in the ocean: Plastic producers team up and pledge $1bn to combat the plastic problem
Plastic-producing companies around the world have teamed up and committed to investing more than $1 billion to cut our plastic waste.The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW), made up of almost 30 companies, will build solutions that will reduce the amount of plastic created and help deal with si ...
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#1195052019-01-18
We now know whats at the bottom of Belize’s Great Blue Hole and it’s depressing
Belize’s Blue Hole is an instantly recognisable wonder of the natural world. It’s the world’s largest sinkhole and is located on the Mesoamerican Reef – the second largest barrier reef network in the world after Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
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#1195062019-01-18
2018's Award-Winning Ocean Art Photos Will Transport You To Another Planet
In the sapphire-to-stygian waters that cover 70 per cent of Earth’s surface, fish school in iridescent sheets, whales sing mournful tunes, and jellyfish bloom like wildflowers. The ocean is a teeming mystery that most of us rarely dip our toes in.
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#1195072019-01-18
Grassroots set to drive 2019 climate action as climate change deniers take center stage
The environment needs help. When politicians out themselves as climate change deniers, grassroots and civil society groups get louder. But how much can they achieve?
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#1195082019-01-18
Food in the Anthropocene
More than 800 million people still live in hunger, and many of us now eat more unhealthy than ever. Global food production remains the largest pressure caused by humans on the planet, threatening local ecosystems and the stability of the Earth system itself.
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#1195092019-01-18
Unraveling of 58-year-old corn gene mystery may have plant-breeding implications
In discovering a mutant gene that "turns on" another gene responsible for the red pigments sometimes seen in corn, researchers solved an almost six-decades-old mystery with a finding that may have implications for plant breeding in the future.
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#1195102019-01-18
Is it a girl?
A newborn calf spotted among a population of critically endangered killer whales will survive into maturity, scientists say. Researchers are hoping that the juvenile whale is a female, as this will give the group the best chance of producing more offspring.
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#1195112019-01-18
Global audience for nature docs expanding, says David Attenborough
Renowned naturalist David Attenborough said he has seen the interest in natural history and programs about wildlife increase exponentially in recent years.
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#1195122019-01-18
5 reasons to be optimistic about reducing, and reversing, deforestation
Let’s be frank. For those of us who care about deforestation, the last few years have not been good. The latest data tells us we’re losing more tropical tree cover than ever before. The biggest culprit is still commodity agriculture. This is exactly what we, in the Tropical Forest Alliance, are ...
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#1195142019-01-21
Great Plains Bison Were Brought Back From The Brink Of Extinction—A Remarkable, Century-Long Conservation Success Story
Driving north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, an extraordinary landscape comes into view. Trees disappear and an immense landscape of grass emerges, undulating in the wind like a great, green ocean.
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#1195152019-01-21
Pollution in India Could Reshape Monsoons
Over the next decade, more than 400 large dams will be built on the Himalayan rivers—by India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, and Pakistan—to feed the region’s hunger for electricity and its need for irrigation. New ports and thermal power plants line the coastal arc that runs from India, through Southea ...
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#1195162019-01-21
Water sector must become resistant to climate change
Exclusive interview with Jan Kürstein, Hydrogeologist and Senior Consultant Water and Natural Resources at Rambøll in Denmark.“Cape Town is a good example that Africa has started to face the effects of climate change by investigating alternative water resources and minimising the loss of non-rev ...
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#1195172019-01-21
Annie Proulx on the best books to understand climate change
Today we live with non-stop special events of fire, flood, mud slide, rising water, whirling hurricanes, toxic algae blooms, unprecedented droughts. That word “unprecedented” is coming to define our time.
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#1195182019-01-21
Argentina and Spain scientific research on climate change impact on hake in Tierra del Fuego
Scientific study suggests snoek (Thyrsites atun) can re-colonize the marine area of the Beagle Channel and South-Western Atlantic waters, an area in the southernmost point of the South American continent where this species competed with the hake (Merluccius sp.) to hunt preys in warmer periods.
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#1195192019-01-21
'The great dying'
Forget the K-Pg extinction that led to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 million-years-ago - the most devastating mass extinction in Earth’s history occurred 251 million-years-ago at the end of the Permian.
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#1195202019-01-21
Cane toads: What they do in the shadows
Cane toads are picking up some shady habits, according to a new study co-authored by a Macquarie University researcher. Toads in Western Australia have been spotted awake and active during the day in deeply shaded habitats, despite the species usually being nocturnal in Australia and other parts ...
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#1195212019-01-21
Ecological benefits of part-night lighting revealed
Switching off street lights to save money and energy could have a positive knock-on effect on our nocturnal pollinators, according to new research.
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#1195222019-01-21
Eat Plants, Save the Planet
While the modern agricultural system has helped stave off famines and feed the world’s 7 billion residents, the way we eat and produce food is posing a threat to future populations’ food security.
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#1195232019-01-21
These corals love the warming oceans
Ocean temperatures have risen an average of 0.13 degrees Fahrenheit per decade, threatening many of the world’s coral reefs
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#1195242019-01-21
Tanzania is finally protecting its “globally unique” endangered rainforest
Tanzania’s government has announced it will protect a tropical forest long recognized for its high biodiversity value and as home to numerous endangered primates and plants.
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#1195252019-01-21
In 2020, we need a new deal for nature
This year didn’t start with a good omen for the planet. Meanwhile, 2018 came in as the fourth-hottest year since records began, and the second-costliest year ever for extreme weather impacts.
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#1195262019-01-22
Africa: Eat Plants, Save the Planet
United Nations — While the modern agricultural system has helped stave off famines and feed the world's 7 billion residents, the way we eat and produce food is posing a threat to future populations' food security.
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#1195272019-01-22
Ways to help kids cope with — and help combat — climate change
News of the coming environmental collapse has broken with unnerving regularity and with each new tidbit — the Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice, global warming is making already-dramatic natural disasters more fierce, Europe’s climate disaster is growing, and October’s news that ...
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#1195282019-01-22
The End Of Plastic Cutlery, Plates And Straws: EU Market Says Goodbye To Single-Use Plastic Products
Europe wants to lead the fight against plastic pollution. On January 18th EU member states confirmed the provisional agreement reached between the presidency of the Council and the European Parliament on a new directive to introduce restrictions on certain single-use plastic products.
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#1195292019-01-22
Hawaii's Snail Extinction Crisis: "We're Just Trying to Stop the Bleeding"
George, the last individual of a Hawaiian tree snail species known only as Achatinella apexfulva, died New Year’s Day in a laboratory on Oahu, where he had been a bit of a local celebrity.
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#1195302019-01-22
Small trees are among the oldest in Congolese rainforest
Forest giants have long been considered the oldest trees in tropical forests, but new research shows small trees can also be very old, and can even grow older than the big ones.
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#1195312019-01-22
Forest soil needs decades or centuries to recover from fires and logging
The 2009 Black Saturday fires burned 437,000 hectares of Victoria, including tens of thousands of hectares of Mountain Ash forest.
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#1195322019-01-22
Coastal seas around New Zealand are heading into a marine heatwave, again
As New Zealanders are enjoying their days at the beach, unusually warm ocean temperatures look to be a harbinger of another marine heatwave.
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#1195332019-01-22
Antarctic krill population contracts southward as polar oceans warm
The population of Antarctic krill, the favourite food of many whales, penguins, fish and seals, shifted southward during a recent period of warming in their key habitat, new research shows.
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#1195342019-01-22
Can we drink our oceans? Five things you need to know about desalination
Desalination is key to providing fresh water to millions of people around the world. Yet, it can harm marine wildlife, takes a lot of energy, and it's often not sustainable.
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#1195352019-01-22
The Most Important #10YearChallenge Photos Are Probably Not What You Expected
With another year on the horizon, millions of people on social media are partaking in a viral new craze. It's called the #10YearChallenge, and the dare is simple: share two photos of yourself taken a decade apart and laugh at the contrast.
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#1195362019-01-22
Sponges In The Great Barrier Reef Act As Ecological Indicators
Marine sponges are interesting organisms in the coral reef ecosystem that seems to survive in extreme environmental conditions. Sponges are the simplest and primitive animals that host varied other groups including microorganisms and are popular in producing life-saving “wonder-drugs” for malari ...
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#1195372019-01-22
Near-term climate prediction coming of age, study shows
The quest for climate scientists to be able to bridge the gap between shorter-term seasonal forecasts and long-term climate projections is coming of age, a study shows.
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#1195382019-01-22
Satellites saw rapid Greenland ice loss
Greenland has gone through an "unprecedented" period of ice loss within the last two decades. The Grace satellites revealed a four-fold increase in mass being lost from Greenland's ice sheet from 2003-2013.
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#1195392019-01-22
Davos: Prince William to interview Sir David Attenborough
The Duke of Cambridge is to interview naturalist Sir David Attenborough at the World Economic Forum in Davos about his environmental work. Kensington Palace said he will focus on the "urgent challenges facing the next generation of environmental leaders".
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#1195402019-01-22
Gene Drive Mosquitoes And The New Era Of Medical Colonialism
The highly contentious issue of gene drive technologies – a novel extreme form of genetic engineering designed to alter or even eradicate entire populations and species – was at the heart of the international negotiations at the biennial UN Biodiversity Conference held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, ...
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#1195422019-01-23
Construction without coordination: How ants build megaprojects
Leaf-cutter ants build superhighways to transfer food and building materials hundreds of meters without communicating with each other, scientists claimed Wednesday, in findings that could prompt a rethink about how some insect communities organize themselves.
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#1195432019-01-23
Climate change will affect the ratio of male-to-female newborns, scientists say.
Global warming will have a variety of effects on our planet, yet it may also directly impact our human biology, research suggests.Specifically, climate change could alter the proportion of male and female newborns, with more boys born in places where temperatures rise and fewer boys born in plac ...
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#1195442019-01-23
Climate Change Is a Public Health Emergency
Ever since human-caused climate change emerged into public consciousness around the late 1980s, news stories and public awareness campaigns surrounding the topic have predominantly been accompanied by images of polar bears and melting ice, reinforcing common misconceptions that the impacts are f ...
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#1195452019-01-23
Ancient climate change triggered warming that lasted thousands of years
A rapid rise in temperature on ancient Earth triggered a climate response that may have prolonged the warming for many thousands of years, according to scientists.
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#1195462019-01-23
'It's something very precious': painting oceans to showcase climate change
When the American artist Danielle Eubank visited the Indian Ocean in Mozambique, she was taken back by the garbage. “There’s pollution everywhere, in the water, on the beach, baby strollers and plastic mats, plastic bags, plastic bottles,” she said. “They’re everywhere.”
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#1195472019-01-23
Quintana Roo’s coral reefs in state of alert
Specialists seek to reverse the massive death of corals with a special treatment against the disease known as “white syndrome”, which could bring a highly negative impact in the local and regional economy in the medium term.
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#1195482019-01-23
Australian scientists evaluate health of world's biggest coral reef
An extensive study into the health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef is underway this month, with a 25-day data collecting journey canvassing bleach affected parts of the reef not observed since 2016.
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#1195492019-01-23
What do trees do when we are not looking?
Getting to the root of the dos, whys and workings of trees can be an obsession for forest researchers. And for my fellow obsessed- pinpoint accuracy is our common ambition. So why is this so hard to do?
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#1195502019-01-23
Government vows to engage more indigenous groups in forest management
The issue of the Anak Dalam tribe, also known as the Orang Rimba, who traditionally live deep in the forest in Jambi in small nomadic groups, came into the spotlight in the past few years after they were forced to leave their land because of uncontrolled conversion of natural forest.
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#1195512019-01-23
Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer
It was an ambitious project from the start: to capture the Congo Basin rainforest in the pages of a book. Stretching across an area larger than Saudi Arabia, the world’s second-largest rainforest straddles six countries in Central Africa.
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#1195522019-01-23
Davos Diary: An evening in the life of WEF, from Brexit to biodiversity
The Belvedere hotel was buzzing with rumor on the eve of the formal opening day of Davos 2019, and most of it centered on British Prime Minister Theresa May. Will she? Won’t she?
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#1195532019-01-23
Where does our food come from? Here's why we need to know
Despite the central role that food plays for humanity, we as consumers tend to know very little about it: where did it come from? Who produced it? How was it made? What were the environmental and social costs of supplying it? These are questions that few of us can answer.
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#1195542019-01-23
A single gene turns socially organized bees into social parasites
A small change in the genetic makeup of the South African Cape bee turns the socially organised animal into a fighting parasite. This change ensures that infertile worker bees begin to lay their own eggs and fight other colonies.
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#1195552019-01-23
Copy cats: When is a bobcat not a bobcat?
Two UBC Okanagan biologists, who have publicly solicited images of wild cats for their research, have answered that question.Their recently published study explains how hard it can be when it comes to wildlife classification—even experts have difficulty agreeing on whether a cat in a picture is ...