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#1262512020-12-15
‘We are part of the solution and the problem’: Q&A with author Torkjell Leira
In his homeland, Norwegian social geographer Torkjell Leira is known as a leading expert on Brazil. After coming to the country as an exchange student some 30 years ago, he also began directing his studies and work at Brazilian lands and peoples.
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#1302582021-09-02
‘We are moving into uncharted territory with climate change’: scientist
Hurricane Ida’s remnants, which killed dozens of people and triggered flash floods across the tri-state area, marked the latest extreme weather event in a summer filled with climate-related disasters.
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#1280282021-04-12
‘We are made invisible’: Brazil’s Indigenous on prejudice in the city
Contrary to popular belief, Brazil’s Indigenous people aren’t confined to the Amazon Rainforest, with more than a third of them, or about 315,000 individuals, living in urban areas.
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#1336922022-03-03
‘We are doing our best’: rescuers fear for animals injured in NSW and Queensland floods
The flood disaster in New South Wales and Queensland has prompted concerns for ground-dwelling animals that can become trapped in their habitat or swept into other environments.
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#1314292021-11-02
‘We are digging our own graves’: world leaders’ powerful words at Cop26
Alarm, anger and a few significant promises featured during speeches made by dozens of world leaders as crucial UN climate talks came to life in a cold and wet Glasgow on Monday.
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#1244762020-03-03
‘We all share the same roof’: On World Wildlife Day, this video promotes biodiversity conservation
‘We might think we have fully bent nature to our needs. But, we entirely depend on the biosphere’s resources to meet the needs of over seven billion people.’
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#1348702022-06-02
‘Vicious cycle’: Storms intensify in the Gulf as climate changes
Ecologically disastrous conditions in the Gulf are the latest sign of the dangers that climate change and other related factors pose to the Middle East.
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#1237502020-01-16
‘Urgent’ need for businesses to adapt to growing threat from climate change, McKinsey says
As the climate crisis intensifies, and as the wide-ranging economic impacts are felt up and down supply chains across continents, leaders from companies, governments and financial institutions cannot ignore the mounting economic risks, a report from McKinsey published Thursday says.
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#1189912018-12-12
‘Unabated climate change will cause more conflict and hunger’
Graziano da Silva made the remarks at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2018 panel discussion on how to solve the climate crisis, with 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former US Vice-President Al Gore as keynote speaker.
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#1337742022-03-08
‘Turn the clock forward on women’s rights’: UN chief’s International Women’s Day message
Mr. Guterres highlighted the contribution that women have made to ending the COVID-19 pandemic, hailed the ideas, innovations and activism that are changing our world for the better, and welcomed more women leaders across all walks of life.
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#1353802022-07-20
‘Traditional knowledge should be integrated with scientific research’
In 1961, the foundation stone of the Navagam dam (now known as the Sardar Sarovar Project) was near the Narmada river in Gujarat, and the government began acquiring land, which belonged to the adivasi communities who had lived there for generations.
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#1340042022-04-12
‘Too many people, not enough food’ isn’t the cause of hunger and food insecurity
Nearly one in three people in the world did not have access to enough food in 2020. That’s an increase of almost 320 million people in one year and it’s expected to get worse with rising food prices and the war trapping wheat, barley and corn in Ukraine and Russia.
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#1307412021-10-13
‘Toilet of Europe’: Spain’s pig farms blamed for mass fish die-offs
Pollution from hundreds of intensive pig farms may have played a bigger role than publicly acknowledged in the collapse of one of Europe’s largest saltwater lagoons, according to a new investigation.
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#1347452022-05-27
‘Time running out’: US, Germany intensify climate change fight
Deal will see the two nations develop and deploy technologies to speed up the clean energy transition, particularly in the areas of offshore wind power, zero-emissions vehicles and hydrogen.
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#1313802021-11-01
‘Time is running out’: your messages for world leaders at Cop26
World leaders must commit to actions rather than promises, renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, and future security rather than present consumption, according to hundreds of messages from Guardian readers and supporters submitted to the Cop26 climate summit.
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#1289682021-06-01
‘This is a spectacular chorus’: walk into the cicada explosion
At first, the noise pulsing from the drooping elm tree boughs seemed to be coming from the power lines erected nearby. Like a surging electrical current, the sound fizzed to a crescendo on the ears before receding slightly, only to build up again to a loud, vibrating whirr.
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#1334132022-02-22
‘They’re going to get worse and worse’: Marine heat wave persists off Sydney
When conservation ecologist Rob Harcourt went surfing off the coast of Sydney, Australia, he immediately knew the water was warmer than usual.
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#1324812022-01-13
‘They saw bigger things’: Richard Leakey, Edward O Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy remembered
Over Christmas and the new year, three of the world’s leading naturalists died. Thomas Lovejoy, a conservation biologist credited with popularising the term “biodiversity” and a passionate defender of the Amazon, died on 25 December.
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#1285872021-05-12
‘There were tears’: Death of newborn tiger cub a painful loss for Toronto Zoo staff
Zookeeper Ryan Hegarty chokes up as he talks about the newborn Amur tiger cub that had to be euthanized this weekend at the Toronto Zoo after becoming ill.
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#1315372021-11-08
‘The whole place feels wrong’: voices from across America on what the climate crisis stole
The jubilation of the Paris climate agreement, where delegates from around the world triumphantly declared the climate crisis would finally be tamed, will have felt very hollow to many in the US in the six years since.
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#1315542021-11-09
‘The weather keeps playing tricks’: living on the frontline of global heating
I knew farming through my father, as a child. I worked closely with him, alongside my siblings, in his rice, soya bean and maize fields at Gidan Kado, a farming community on the outskirts of Gusau, the capital city of Zamfara state, north-west Nigeria.
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#1204532019-03-22
‘The trees say F you’: Why teens are cursing about climate change
Young people in Germany, Argentina, the United States, and basically everywhere walked out of school last Friday as part of the Youth Climate Strike, voicing their frustration and anger that older generations have failed to act on climate change. And their raised voices included f-bombs — lots a ...
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#1215442019-07-11
‘The trees are dying’: Climate change affecting a Mi’kmaq tradition says canoe maker
Todd Labrador, a canoe maker in Nova Scotia says climate change is affecting his family’s traditional practice.
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#1294922021-07-09
‘The sea was milky white’: how the Southern Water sewage scandal unfolded
The town of Whitstable sits on the north Kent coast, home to the oysters that have brought it worldwide fame from waters that are some of the most protected in Europe.
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#1353742022-07-20
‘The scale is hard to grasp’: avian flu wreaks devastation on seabirds
Dozens of coastal sites in the UK closed to the public as H5N1 continues to sweep through wild bird populations across the world. Aquarter of Europe’s breeding seabirds spend spring in the UK, turning our coastline into a giant maternity unit. These noisy outcrops usually stink of bird poo. Howe ...
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#1275602021-03-05
‘The river was stolen from us’: a tribe's battle to retake the Skagit River
Scott Schuyler doesn’t need to see the Skagit River to know something is wrong. As he walks down the river’s steep embankment, wet rock and moss under each step, he can hear the problem. “The river should be singing to us right now, it should be free flowing,” Schuyler says as cold February rain ...
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#1313352021-11-01
‘The island has been shrinking’: living on the frontline of global heating
Sunil Kandar, Ghoramara Island, India I live in the Hatkhola locality of Ghoramara. I remember how on this island, during my childhood, I had a very happy and enjoyable life. We had a big mud-walled house. We also had large farmland of our own where rice and other vegetables grew. We sold a big ...
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#1323352022-01-06
‘The ducklings might not survive’: readers’ concerns over early spring
I saw this young palmate newt emerging on the evening of 1 January. Newts should be overwintering in leaf and log piles, compost heaps and other suitable refugia from November until late February or early March, when they start moving toward breeding pools.
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#1266322021-01-15
‘The New Climate War’ Exposes Tactics Of Climate Change ‘Inactivists’
Sometime around the fifth century B.C., the Chinese general and military strategist Sun Tzu wrote in his highly quotable treatise The Art of War, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
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#1197172019-02-01
‘The Davos of Value Change’: Some New Topics Take Center Stage
The World Economic Forum that concluded last Friday at Davos, Switzerland, met against the backdrop of a global economic slowdown, especially in China, and fears of a recession, while other concerns loomed over trade wars and the economic crisis in Venezuela.
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#1281832021-04-22
‘Teeming with biodiversity’: green groups buy Belize forest to protect it ‘in perpetuity’
These logs are historic,” says Elma Kay, standing in Belize Maya Forest, where she has been doing an inventory of felled trees. “These are the last logs that were cut here, for mahogany and other hardwoods, left behind by the previous logging company.”
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#1314372021-11-03
‘Summers are becoming unbearable’: living on the frontline of global heating
I was born in 1962 in a family of deer herders in Taymyr, on a peninsula in the very far north of Russia. I am part of the Dolgan community: we are an indigenous Russian group and there are around 6,000 left of us living in the tundra. Growing up, the Soviet Union tried to deny us our traditiona ...
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#1315302021-11-08
‘Stop killing us’: A weekend of Cop26 activism around the world – in pictures
From Sydney to Seoul and from Swansea to Paris, protesters on the streets send messages to the climate negotiators
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#1193252019-01-10
‘Spineless’—What Jellyfish Can Teach Us About the Oceans’ Future
As human industry belches out more carbon dioxide, the chemistry of our oceans is changing. The resulting acidification is endangering coral reefs and the myriad creatures that depend on them. Science writer and one-time ocean researcher Juli Berwald wondered how ocean acidification affects jell ...
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#1335572022-02-28
‘Showing respect’: revival of Japanese technique that promises fish a better way to die
Fishermen in Mexico are using the ike jime method, which aims to reduce fish trauma, to improve the quality of catches and help sustainability
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#1320482021-12-03
‘Shocking lack of ambition’ on post-Brexit farming policy risks UK missing net zero targets, wildlife charities warn
Scheme to replace EU subsidies was billed as ‘biggest change in half a century’, last year, but will now only pay farmers to improve soils
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#1316062021-11-10
‘See these glaciers, before they melt’: living on the frontline of global heating
When the snowflake falls at the top of the glacier, it might take several hundred years or so to reach the bottom. By the time it reaches there, it’s compressed into ice, solid ice.
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#1348062022-06-01
‘Sea forest’ would be better name than seaweed, says UN food adviser
Seaweed could help feed the world and reduce the impact of the climate emergency, a UN adviser on food has suggested.
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#1343232022-05-10
‘Save Soil’ Campaign: Sadhguru to Address 195 Countries at UNCCD
For healthy food production, soil health is essential. It provides essential nutrients, water, oxygen, and root support, all of which aid plant growth and development for food production.
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#1314742021-11-04
‘Sacred places burn’: living on the frontline of global heating
Here in the Sierra Nevada foothills in California, our community is quickly becoming far more fire-wise out of necessity. The changes that our home and lifestyle have undergone are numerous, from the serious and scary to the small habits that are starting to feel routine.
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#1248982020-03-26
‘Robust economy, financial system critical to reversing nature’s depletion’
To achieve the global nature conservation and biodiversity across African countries, Africa Executive Director for Wide World Fund for Nature (WWF), Alice Ruhweza has said the transformation of the world’s economic and financial systems remains critical to reversing nature’s depletion and achiev ...
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#1211102019-05-20
‘Resisting to exist’: Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president
In a country where women account for almost half of Brazil’s 900,000 native people, female indigenous leaders have now stepped boldly into the political spotlight.
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#1339292022-04-06
‘Resilient’ leatherback turtles can survive fishing rope entanglements. Mostly
Leatherback turtles are highly vulnerable to getting entangled in lobster pot fishing gear off the coast of Massachusetts. A new study now shows that they can largely survive these entanglements — if they’re reached by rescuers in time, and their injuries are treatable.
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#1342212022-04-28
‘Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge
Pristine rainforests were once again destroyed at a relentless rate in 2021, according to new figures, prompting concerns governments will not meet a Cop26 deal to halt and reverse deforestation by the end of the decade.
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#1323022022-01-04
‘Quite incredible’: some of world’s rarest camellias discovered in Yorkshire
Horticultural experts have compared it to finding a wondrous and unknown library of rare first editions, said the head gardener of Wentworth Woodhouse, Scott Jamieson, recalling the discovery of camellias believed to be some of the oldest and rarest in the western world.
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#1337202022-03-07
‘Prospect of existence’: Nameless grasshopper sparks taxonomic debate
What’s in a name? The curious case of a nameless grasshopper will tell you that there is more to a name than meets the eye.
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#1282592021-04-27
‘Profound ignorance’: Microbes, a missing piece in the biodiversity puzzle
Scientists are clear: the number of plant and animal species on Earth is declining. The climate crisis, habitat loss, pollution and the illegal wildlife trade are all pushing species toward extinction. Researchers especially worry that losing too much biodiversity could push the earth past a tip ...
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#1342202022-04-28
‘Potentially devastating’: Climate crisis may fuel future pandemics
There will be at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over the next 50 years, with the climate crisis helping fuel a “potentially devastating” spread of disease that will imperil animals and people and risk further pandemics, researchers have warned.
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#1324792022-01-13
‘Poorly conceived’ trophy hunting bill puts wildlife at risk, UK government told
A proposed UK ban on trophy hunting imports risks undermining the conservation of rhinos, elephants and other endangered wildlife, according to a group of leading scientists and conservationists who said African perspectives have been ignored by the government.
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#1187872018-11-02
‘Poop vault’ of human feces could preserve gut’s microbial biodiversity—and help treat disease
Whether in villages on the coast of Ghana or in the mountains of Rwanda, asking for people's poop is a good icebreaker, Mathieu Groussin says. "Everybody laughs," says Groussin, a microbiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. "Especially when we stress that we n ...