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#1191272018-12-19
'Business as life'
Fighting global warming will take meaningful change - not business as usual. The dialogue of the COP24 climate talks often seem to consist of little but collections of acronyms and buzz phrases.
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#1275132021-03-04
'Catastrophic': UK has lost 90% of seagrass meadows, study finds
The UK has lost more than 90% of the lush seagrass meadows that once surrounded the nation, research has found. Scientists described the decline as catastrophic, but the latest analysis also shows where the flowering plants could be restored.
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#1227522019-10-25
'Citizen army' needed to tackle invasive species, MPs suggest
A citizen army is needed to help tackle invasive species that threaten the natural environment and in some cases human health, MPs have said. The cost to the economy of non-native species taking hold in the UK is estimated to be £1.8bn a year, a report from the environmental audit committee says.
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#1304142021-09-14
'Climate Change Single Greatest Challenge Of Our Era': UNHRC Chief
UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said at the opening session of the 48th Human Rights Council that climate crisis is the single greatest challenge to human rights in the present era. She urged global economies to concentrate on the rebuilding of a "greener post-pandemic world." Bac ...
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#1213932019-06-25
'Climate apartheid’: UN expert says human rights may not survive
Right to life is likely to be undermined alongside the rule of law, special rapporteur says
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#1307472021-10-13
'Climate change in Tibetan Plateau impacts livelihoods'
In the run up to the Glasgow climate talks (COP26) and the ongoing UN biodiversity summit, a new report on Tuesday blamed China, the world's biggest maker and user of coal, cement and steel, for climate change across the Tibetan Plateau, the world's 'third pole'.
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#1249482020-03-31
'Climate change is still on, no matter what happens with coronavirus
No, dolphins are not frequenting the canals of Venice again. But nature is responding to the fact that a third of the world's population is now living in lockdown in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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#1314142021-11-02
'Climate change will catch up with us', Taoiseach warns
The Taoiseach has said Ireland has an opportunity to work with the farming sector to make sure there is a sustainable future for young farmers, but said that everyone must also deal with the realities of climate change and "how much the land can take".
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#1261872020-12-11
'Climate change's fingerprints': Report highlights growing link between climate change and weather extremes
New analysis summarising latest thinking on climate attribution, reveals increasingly clear evidence climate change is leading to increased extreme weather risks The evidence linking climate change and increased extreme weather risks that pose a major threat to economic stability and global supp ...
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#1222422019-09-16
'Climigration': When communities must move because of climate change
Climate change increasingly threatens communities all over the world. News of fires, floods and coastal erosion devastating lives and livelihoods seems almost constant. The latest fires in Queensland and New South Wales mark the start of the earliest bushfire season the states have ever seen.
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#1251572020-04-17
'Coronavirus profiteers' condemned as polluters gain bailout billions
Polluting industries around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic to gain billions of dollars in bailouts and to weaken and delay environmental protections.
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#1300032021-08-18
'Countless' animals threatened by fires ravaging Europe
Fires in Turkey's southern Mugla and Antalya provinces have caused ‘extensive damage’ to habitats of desert lynx, wild goat, eagle owl and woolly dormouse
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#1286132021-05-14
'Crazy botanist' safeguards biodiversity along Yangtze River
In the mountains along China's longest river, the Yangtze, about 1,256 species of rare plants have entered botanist Huang Guiyun's rescue radar in the past three decades.
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#1233932019-12-11
'Daring multi-level club solution' could offer key to combating climate change
'Climate clubs' offering membership for sub-national states, rather than just countries, could speed up progress towards a globally-harmonised climate change policy.
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#1315202021-11-08
'Developing countries want something to show from COP26'
We've been concentrating on the speech from Barack Obama for the past hour but, away from the former US president, meetings on today's theme continue. It's "Adaptation, Loss and Damage", a confusing term that boils down to how countries will adapt to climate change and who will pay for it.
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#1195852019-01-25
'Dramatic growth': UN reports surge in green laws since 1972
Over the last four decades the world has seen a rapid rise in the number of laws to protect the environment, but weak enforcement regimes mean many envitonmental threats are continuing to worsen.
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#1293452021-06-15
'Dying of thirst': The Cucapá in Mexico fight against climate change and oblivion
Lucía Laguna carries her fate tattooed on her face — from the corner of her mouth to her chin, black lines surf across her coppery skin — the tribal art honoring her people will also serve an important function later on.
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#1197642019-02-05
'Eavesdropping' technology used to protect one of New Zealand's rarest birds
Remote recording devices used to 'eavesdrop' on a reintroduced population of one of New Zealand's rarest birds have been heralded as a breakthrough for conservation.
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#1322762022-01-04
'Ecological civilization leads to multilateralism'
Ecological civilization is really about multilateralism and a global convention, which requires the global community to work together, said a Chinese top official of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International recently.
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#1223212019-09-23
'Edible forests' can fight land clearing and world hunger at the same time
Reducing emissions from deforestation and farming is an urgent global priority if we want to control climate change. However, like many climate change problems, the solution is complicated. Cutting down forests to plant edible crops feeds some of the world's hungriest people.
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#1308392021-10-15
'Elephant runners' recount epic trek of mammoth stars in S.W China
China to set up multinational co-managed national parks to further protect species. A video on the activities of a herd of wild Asian elephants that went astray in Southwest China's Yunnan Province in September is shown on a big screen at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the ...
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#1211962019-05-24
'Elusive and cryptic' lizard may be first Australian mainland reptile declared extinct
A newly reclassified species of lizard that is native to areas now paved by Melbourne’s suburbs could become the first reptile on mainland Australia to be declared extinct.
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#1312982021-10-29
'Everything is at stake' as world gathers for climate talks
More than one world leader says humanity's future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb climate change. Temperatures, tempers and hyperbole have all ratcheted up ahead of the United Nations summit.
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#1340172022-04-12
'Extinct' orchid discovered hiding in plain sight
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, together with a team of scientists, have released a new scientific paper showing that the previously presumed extinct species called Prasophyllum morganii, commonly known as mignonette leek orchid, has in fact been hiding in plain sight.
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#1244352020-02-28
'Extinction is a choice’: Margaret Atwood on Tasmania's forests and saving the swift parrot
We stand under the bird viewing platform, the wind blowing, the giant white gum trees towering. Margaret Atwood, her face partly hidden beneath a black and purple waterproof hat and with binoculars slung around her neck, has a message.
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#1202562019-03-07
'Falling out of trees': dozens of dead possums blamed on extreme heat stress
More than 100 dead and injured ringtail possums have been found by wildlife rescuers along a single stretch of beach in Victoria in what ecologists say is becoming an annual occurrence due to extreme heat.
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#1218162019-08-06
'Fight for our lives': Fiji calls world leaders 'selfish' as it lays out climate crisis blueprint
Minister says archipelago in grave situation through no fault of its own as he unveils plan for net zero emissions and village relocation
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#1317662021-11-17
'Find a solution,' say residents as smog blankets Pakistan's Lahore
The Pakistani city of Lahore was declared the most polluted city in the world by an air quality monitor on Wednesday, as residents choking in acrid smog pleaded with officials to take action.
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#1351932022-07-05
'Five times the size of London each year': BNP Paribas tots up the biodiversity footprint of its investments
Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law
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#1214552019-07-02
'Football pitch' of Amazon forest lost every minute
An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football pitch is now being cleared every single minute, according to satellite data.
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#1332122022-02-15
'Freeze or flee' reactions run in fish families
University of Exeter scientists examined how Trinidadian guppies reacted to stress—did they freeze or flee?—and also measured their hormonal responses.
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#1231592019-11-28
'Generation Greta': Angry youths put heat on climate talks
BERLIN -- It's safe to say that anyone flying to this year's global climate conference in Madrid had better have a watertight excuse if they meet Greta Thunberg.
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#1214802019-07-05
'Ghost gear,' plastic entangled 1,000 sharks and rays since 2009: study
Over the last 10 years, hundreds of sharks and rays have become entangled in plastic waste in the world’s oceans, U.K. researchers said.
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#1274542021-03-02
'Giant luminous shark': researchers discover three deep-sea sharks glow in the dark
Scientists studying sharks off New Zealand have discovered that three deep-sea species glow in the dark – including one that is now the largest-known luminous vertebrate.
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#1291222021-06-07
'Glacier blood' could be key to understanding impacts of climate change
Atop the French Alps, thousands of feet above sea level, the normally white snow sometimes appears stained with blotches of dark red blood, some of which extend for miles.
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#1191242018-12-19
'Greater warming': different species under threat
Entire ecosystems are under threat due to warming oceans with parts of the Australian coast stretching from Sydney to Adelaide experiencing the most stress, experts warn.
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#1210522019-05-14
'Green Oscar' Awarded For Venezuelan Parrot Conservation
The Whitley Awards, sometimes known as the “Green Oscars”, recognize international conservation excellence in biodiversity-rich, resource-poor countries
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#1227652019-10-28
'Green gold' tree offers Brazil deforestation hope
Trees that help keep soils fertile could slow or stop deforestation in Brazil's "arc of destruction". A project using inga trees hopes to show smallholders that they can earn a decent living from the land. Inga trees, known as ice-cream bean trees, fix nitrogen into the soil, boosting productivi ...
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#1262482020-12-15
'Happy corals': climate crisis sanctuary teeming with life found off east Africa
Scientists have discovered a climate crisis refuge for coral reefs off the coast of Kenya and Tanzania, where species are thriving despite warming events that have killed their neighbours.
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#1323862022-01-11
'Heartbreaking' loss: Climate crisis spurs push for compensation
Throughout 2021, a slew of hurricanes, floods and forest fires brought one fact into sharp focus: The climate crisis isn't a problem for the future, it's a problem for right now.
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#1270342021-02-12
'Hedge trimmer' fish facing global extinction
They are the most extraordinary of fish, resembling "hedge trimmers with fins".The sawfish, which is a kind of ray, is also among the most endangered of the fish living in the oceans. Once found along the coastlines of 90 countries, the animals are now presumed extinct in more than half of these ...
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#1255392020-11-04
'Helper' ambrosia beetles share reproduction with their mother
Fungus farming is a fascinating symbiosis that has evolved multiple times in social insects: once in ants, once in termites, and several times in weevils (beetles) from the subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae.
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#1213872019-06-25
'Historic moment' for indigenous people at climate talks, new climate leader says
Climate leader Pasang Dolma Sherpa has just been elected to head the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform in climate talks.
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#1205932019-04-01
'How do I talk about climate change at social gatherings?'
I feel an urge to talk about climate change bubbling up within me at social gatherings if people talk about trivial things like food or sports for too long. But it is always such a downer and I know people need a certain amount of time to feel safe and ordinary and relaxed.
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#1211792019-05-23
'I feel empowered and scared': pupils speak before climate strike
'I feel empowered and scared': pupils speak before climate strike We asked children around the world to tell us why they will be taking part in Friday’s climate strikes. Here’s what they said
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#1207332019-04-11
'I never knew walruses climbed that high': Our Planet's scariest moments
Icebergs attacked choppers, sharks gnawed legs, walruses blocked exits and orangutans threw trees … the team behind David Attenborough’s new adventure relive their big frights
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#1317862021-11-18
'I've seen irreversible change but hope too for planet'
His face was flushed and his voice was loud. You're making it all up about global warming, a man shouted as he approached me. We were in the Royal Society, the UK's leading scientific academy, and a panel discussion about climate change had just finished. It's nothing to do with carbon dioxide, ...
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#1201342019-02-27
'Ibiza is different', genetically
"Ibiza is different." That is what the hundreds of standard-bearers of the "hippie" movement who visited the Pitiusan Island during the 60s thought, fascinated by its climate and its unexplored nature. What they did not imagine was that the most unique feature of the island was in its inhabitant ...
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#1283272021-04-28
'Impossible to adapt': Surprisingly fast ice-melts in past raise fears about sea level rise
Studies of ancient beaches and fossilised coral reefs suggest sea levels have the potential to rise far more quickly than models currently predict, according to geologists who have been studying past periods of warming.
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#1245332020-03-05
'Individual actions do add up': Christiana Figueres on the climate crisis
Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican diplomat who was an architect of the worldwide Paris climate agreement, is enraged. She thinks you should be too.