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#1290462021-06-03
World’s Lakes Losing Oxygen Rapidly As Planet Warms – Biodiversity and Drinking Water Quality Threatened
Oxygen levels in the world’s temperate freshwater lakes are declining rapidly — faster than in the oceans — a trend driven largely by climate change that threatens freshwater biodiversity and drinking water quality.
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#1289892021-06-02
Ministry marks environment day
The Ministry of Environment will celebrate World Environment Day on June 5 to raise public awareness about the importance of the sustainable use of natural resources. This year’s environment day is being held under the theme Biodiversity and Human Health through social media.
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#1289942021-06-02
Explainer: Biodiversity offsets and putting a price-tag on nature
Ecosystems and biodiversity are showing rapid decline as humans significantly alter nature. How can we ensure that nature doesn't become a casualty of rapid human development?
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#1289972021-06-02
Freshwater: Securing our future
Water, soil, air and species biodiversity are what create ecosystems. The earth’s ecosystems sustain all human activity, including economic activity.
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#1290162021-06-02
Amorepacific Commits To Biodiversity Conservation, Green Chemistry in New Sustainability Goal
Amorepacific’s newly announced ‘2030 A More Beautiful Promise,” is the beauty giant’s new set of sustainability management goals it aims to achieve by 2030. There are five goals under two guiding pillars—which are “moving forward together with customers and society” and “coexisting responsibly w ...
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#1290312021-06-02
Finland establishes biodiversity research network between universities
Biodiversity is a prerequisite for the well-being of the planet and people, as well as for sustainable development. Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to the unsustainable use of natural resources, climate change, the fragmentation of ecosystems, the spread of invasive species, th ...
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#1290342021-06-02
The Coca-Cola Company And The Ocean Cleanup Join Forces To Clean Up 15 Of The World’s Most Polluting Rivers Of Plastic Waste
The Coca Cola Company and The Ocean Clean-Up project have announced they will be collaborating on a ground-breaking partnership to clean up some of the world’s worst polluting rivers - and collect plastic waste which can be recycled to make new bottles
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#1290352021-06-02
Life Below Water – the UN Calls for Action on Ocean Protection
President of the United Nations General Assembly Volkan Bozkir has told a high-level debate on oceans that the world cannot afford to delay action on ocean protection. “There is simply no scenario wherein we live on a planet without an ocean,” he said.
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#1290412021-06-02
Hosting World Environment Day Reflects Global Recognition Of Pakistan's Leading Role In Eco-system Restoration
Pakistan has been emerged as a global leader by providing nature based solutions to all key environmental challenges of ecosystem degradation and climate changes by taking record initiatives of planting 1.528 billion plants and expanding protected areas coverage during the last eight and half ye ...
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#1289502021-06-01
The dangers of deforestation for our planet
Commentary: In recent years, the area of tropical rainforests has decreased at an alarming rate. Strengthening of global cooperation and restoring degraded and damaged forests have become a major focus of international relations, with the survival of forests closely related to the sustainability ...
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#1289642021-06-01
Leonardo DiCaprio Helps Launch Massive ‘Rewild’ Operation In The Galapagos
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is helping a massive $43 million initiative to “rewild” the struggling Galapagos Islands, which he describes as “one of the most irreplaceable” spots on the planet.
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#1289732021-06-01
Rooting regulators are evolutionarily conserved
Many plants can easily be regenerated and multiplied using cuttings. Crucial is that the cutting can initiate the formation of roots, a process called adventitious rooting. Sanaria Abbas Jaafer Alallaq showed in her Ph.D.
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#5963Thirty-first meeting of the Animals Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
31 May - 4 June 2021, Online, Switzerland
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#1289042021-05-31
Initiative to conserve sacred groves
There are 163 sacred groves on the Marakkanam-Puducherry-Cuddalore stretch For centuries, ‘Kovil Kaadugal’ or sacred groves were looked after and maintained by the local communities residing there, who made use of the age-old traditions and knowledge to conserve them.
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#1289062021-05-31
Climate change and indigenous peoples, afro-descendants and migrants examined at global seminar
Indigenous peoples and afro-descendants’ knowledge, innovations and resilience capacities are essential for the transformation to a more sustainable and climate-friendly world and should be included in the policy-making processes, agreed the High-Level Seminar convened today by the Food and Agri ...
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#1289082021-05-31
Egypt’s Environment Minister highlights need for collaboration to conserve biodiversity
Egypt’s Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad has affirmed the country’s support for all United Nations (UN) initiatives to protect global biological diversity.
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#1289112021-05-31
It’s Time to Reimagine Our Relationship with Nature
Our natural earth is dying. It is on the brink of collapse. Due to human impacts the planet is losing species – its biodiversity – at a rate so alarming it’s said to be comparable to the 5th mass extinction 65 million years ago, bringing the era of the dinosaurs to an end. Just 15% of the world’ ...
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#1289272021-05-31
Climate change-resistant corals could provide lifeline to battered reefs
In 2015, nearly half of Hawaii's coral reefs were affected by the most severe bleaching event to date. Coral bleaching occurs when warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures prompt corals to expel the algae that normally live inside them and on which the corals rely for food.
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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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#1289382021-05-31
Browning could make lakes less productive, affecting food webs and fish
As more dissolved organic matter enters lakes across the northeast United States, darkening the lakes in a phenomena called "browning," new research shows that these waters may be growing less productive and able to sustain less life.
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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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#1288812021-05-27
Green Oscar 2021 winner Nuklu Phom strives to continue connecting indigineous communities and form Biodiversity Peace Corridor
Church worker Nuklu Phom belongs to the Phom indigenous community in Nagaland in northeast India. He is noted for his work in connecting communities to conserve biodiversity and switch to sustainable livelihoods in his ancestral village. The effort led to the increase in congregations of the lon ...
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#1288822021-05-27
Scientists discover new species of African Violet plant from Mizoram
A group of botanists from the Bhopal-based Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) have recently discovered a new species of plant belonging to the African Violets family from Mizoram and adjacent areas in Myanmar.
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#1288832021-05-27
Learn about the science of the sea and much more!
With World Oceans Day coming up soon on 8 June, our friends at the Marine Institute have joined together with a host of organisations across the country to launch the 2021 Oceans of Learning series to celebrate our seas and Ireland's marine resource.
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#1288842021-05-27
What would happen to the climate if we reforested the entire tropics?
What would happen if every single patch of farmland in the tropics, from Brazil through Congo, India and Indonesia, was abandoned overnight and left to turn back into forests? That’s the question we investigated in our new research. Trees and forests have become increasingly important in plans t ...
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#1288922021-05-27
Some forams could thrive with climate change, metabolism study finds
With the expansion of oxygen-depleted waters in the oceans due to climate change, some species of foraminifera (forams, a type of protist or single-celled eukaryote) that thrive in those conditions could be big winners, biologically speaking.
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#1288972021-05-27
Fish adapt to ocean acidification by modifying gene expression
Human-driven global change is challenging the scientific community to understand how marine species might adapt to predicted environmental conditions in the near-future (e.g. hypoxia, ocean warming, and ocean acidification). The effects of the uptake of anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 by oceans af ...
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#1288402021-05-26
There's a growing focus on ocean resilience in China – and the positive impacts could be global
Like many coastal nations, China has also been facing an acute decline in the health of the ocean along its coastline caused by both terrestrial and marine development. The rapid expansion of the ocean economy, as well as increasing discharge of land-based pollutants, have exerted a heavy toll o ...
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#1288612021-05-26
Floating ocean plastic can get a boost to its wave-induced transport because of its size
Plastic pollution and other ocean debris are a complex global environmental problem. Every year, ten million tons of plastic are estimated to be mismanaged, resulting in entry into the ocean, of which half will float initially. Yet, only 0.3 million tons of plastic can be found floating on the s ...
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#1288662021-05-26
FAO-UNEP call for bold move to restore world’s ecosystems
Rome and virtual locations – The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today warned that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – also known as the 2030 Agenda – would not be achieved without large-scale restoration of degraded terres ...
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#1288042021-05-25
Green growth: the save-the-mangrove scheme reaping rewards for women in Kenya
Kenya’s mangroves have been harvested for centuries, the timber used in shipbuilding and for ornate doors and furniture as well as shipped across the Indian Ocean and around the world.
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#1288072021-05-25
Comprehending the environmental dimensions of SDGs
Countries are on track to miss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating to environmental protection, two UN entities warn in new report issued on 22 May to coincide with the International Day for Biological Diversity.
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#1288152021-05-25
Importance Of Nature And Culture-Based Solutions For Biodiversity Conservation Discussed On International Day Of Biological Diversity
New Delhi: Experts from different parts of India discussed the importance and different aspects of biodiversity conservation, its relationship with technology and sustainable development at a programme organised on the occasion of International Day of Biological Diversity.
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#1288232021-05-25
Egyptian fossil surprise: Fishes thrived in tropics in ancient warm period, despite high ocean tempe
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, was a short interval of highly elevated global temperatures 56 million years ago that is frequently described as the best ancient analog for present-day climate warming.
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#1288282021-05-25
The earliest round-the-world marine research voyages give new insights on climate change
For the first time, scientists have used ocean measurements taken on research voyages almost 150 years ago to learn more about how human activity has impacted climate change.
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#1287922021-05-24
Comprehending the environmental dimensions of SDGs
Countries are on track to miss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating to environmental protection, two UN entities warn in new report issued on 22 May to coincide with the International Day for Biological Diversity.
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#1287942021-05-24
National Biodiversity Office hosts poster competition to commemorate International Biodiversity Day
The National Biodiversity Office (NBDO), in the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Disaster Risk management, challenged students from all over Belize to show off their creativity and knowledge of biodiversity issues with a poster competition in commemoration of Internationa ...
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#1287842021-05-23
QU marks International Day for Biological Diversity
The Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences (DBES) at Qatar University (QU) has marked the International Day for Biological Diversity to increase understanding of the importance of maintaining the environment's balance and achieving sustainable development goals, particularly after r ...
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#1287882021-05-23
Ethiopia: Ensuring Sustainability Ethiopia's Plant Biodiversity
Ethiopia is home to a rich diversity of plant and animal species and is one of the world's most important centers for further development of crops such as coffee. The country possesses an estimated number of 6000 species of higher plants of which 10per cent are endemic.
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#1287612021-05-22
Volkswagen : On the United Nation's international biodiversity day, Volkswagen is launching a call to all of its employees, with the goal of bringing awareness to the topic of biological diversity
The promotion of biodiversity at our production sites and bringing awareness to our employees are equally important to us,' says Dr. Tobias Bahr, environmental management officer at the Volkswagen Group. In 2007, the company was the founding member of the 'Biodiversity in Good Company' initiativ ...
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#1287712021-05-22
Croatia Marking International Day for Biological Diversity, Nature Protection Day
In terms of biodiversity, Croatia is near the very top in Europe, with about 40,000 species officially recorded, although they are estimated to range from 50,000 to 100,000, the Economy and Sustainable Development Ministry says.
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#1287772021-05-22
Biodiversity Day 2021: 3 questions to Pierre-Yves Burlot, Head of Sustainable Development at Séché Environnement
Biodiversity Day 2021: 3 questions to Pierre-Yves Burlot, Head of Sustainable Development at Séché Environnement 22/05/2021 For Séché Environnement, the preservation of biodiversity is a long-term commitment. A corporate strategy that requires the expertise of specialists, the involvement of emp ...
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#1287182021-05-20
Greening the planet: We can't just plant trees, we have to restore forests
The Queen's Green Canopy, a campaign to celebrate Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee next year, involves asking people in the UK to plant trees: a "treebilee" as her son, Prince Charles puts it. This is one of a number of public and private campaigns underway, including initiatives by big corporati ...
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#1287312021-05-20
NASA's S-MODE takes to the air and sea to study ocean eddies
After being delayed over a year due to the pandemic, a NASA field campaign to study the role of small-scale whirlpools and ocean currents in climate change is taking flight and taking to the seas in May 2021.
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#1287422021-05-20
The extraordinary flight of a bird that flew from Alaska to New Zealand in 11 days without a rest | Expert Zone | Climate and environment
In September 2020, a new record was set for the longest non-stop flight a living creature has made on Earth. A sample from a lost bird The black-tailed needleLemosa Labonica Bauri) He flew from Alaska to New Zealand traveling 12,200 km in 11 days of non-stop flight! The population sample of the ...
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#1286582021-05-17
Scientists propose global plan to save oceans for human health
An interdisciplinary European collaboration called the Seas Oceans and Public Health in Europe (SOPHIE) Project has put forward a global plan to save the oceans for the sake of human health.
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#1286612021-05-17
Chaos and beauty
Todd Thimios is an acclaimed underwater photographer, deep sea submersible pilot and expedition leader, currently based in Australia. His work has been feature in The Times, Boat International and get lost magazine, and was highly commended in the 2020 Ocean Photography Awards. In this interview ...
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#1286692021-05-17
How plankton hold secrets to preventing pandemics
Whether it's plankton exposed to parasites or people exposed to pathogens, a host's initial immune response plays an integral role in determining whether infection occurs and to what degree it spreads within a population, new University of Colorado Boulder research suggests.
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#1286722021-05-17
Report urges California to act to protect marine ecosystems against microplastics
Roughly 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean each year, and the U.S. is one of the top contributors to plastic pollution. It's been found in the seafloor and surface water, on beaches and shorelines. Microplastics—tiny plastics less than 5 millimeters in size —are pervasive worldwide ...
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#1286812021-05-17
Press Release: Leonardo DiCaprio Announces $43M to Rewild the Galapagos Islands
Leonardo DiCaprio, Galapagos National Park Directorate, Island Conservation and Re:wild announce $43 million to support initiative to restore and rewild the Galapagos Islands, building on decades of local conservation efforts.