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#1198052019-02-06
Maroc-Allemagne : Lancement d’un projet commun de « Services Ecosystémiques »
Un projet intitulé « Services Ecosystémiques », fruit de la coopération maroco-allemande, a été lancé mercredi à Rabat pour le renforcement des capacités des acteurs publics et privés en matière d’utilisation durable et de conservation de la diversité biologique.
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#1198062019-02-06
Polar vortex: The science behind the cold
The polar vortex, a swirl of low-pressure air six miles up in the atmosphere, blasted much of the American Midwest and Northeast in late January 2019 with temperatures cold enough to bring on frostbite within minutes.
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#1198072019-02-06
How hunting for crabs in a museum unlocked secrets of their evolution
Games can help people engage with science outside of the traditional realm of research and academia. And using games in ecological research is on the rise, helping ecologists answer questions they’d never be able to in a laboratory experiment. This is particularly true when it comes to answering ...
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#1198082019-02-06
Dingoes could help solve Australia’s extinction crisis — if only people would let them
The continent of Australia has the world’s highest extinction rate; dozens of animal species are critically endangered, and hundreds more are declining. A primary culprit is predation by historically non-native cats and foxes, and killing those animals is central to conservation efforts — but th ...
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#1198092019-02-06
If you want to know about the health of ecosystems, a good place to start is with ants
The ghost ant is aptly named. All six of its legs, not to mention the ant’s antennae and abdomen, sport a spectral yellow — a pale hue that often fades into the background, leaving the ant’s tiny brown head and torso to bob along, barely visible, like a spirit in the breeze.
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#1198102019-02-06
Swiss forests under attack from bark beetle
The level of spruce trees in Swiss forests damaged by the bark beetle has reached its highest in more than a decade. A survey by the Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Researchexternal link found that 735,000 cubic metres of spruce suffered damage last year – more than twice as muc ...
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#1198112019-02-06
Trump speech: climate change omission 'ignorant and irresponsible', experts say
A climate scientist and a former government expert in the audience for Donald Trump’s annual address to Congress said this will probably be the last administration that can forego talking about climate change in the State of the Union speech.
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#1198122019-02-06
Netherlands puzzles over death of estimated 20,000 guillemots
Scientists are scrambling to understand the sudden death of an estimated 20,000 guillemots off the Dutch coast, hundreds of which are washing up on the country’s shoreline.
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#1198182019-02-07
Spelling bees? No, but they can do arithmetic, say researchers
Honeybees can learn to add and subtract, according to research showing that while the insects have tiny brains, they are still surprisingly clever. Researchers behind the study have previously found that honeybees can apparently understand the concept of zero, and learn to correctly indicate whi ...
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#1198192019-02-07
Country diary: where the bee sucks there danger lies
The shoulder-high, prickly stems of dead teasels, Dipsacus fullonum, remain upright throughout winter, providing food for birds even when all else is hidden under snow.
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#1198202019-02-07
The killing of large species is pushing them towards extinction, study finds
The vast majority of the world’s largest species are being pushed towards extinction, with the killing of the heftiest animals for meat and body parts the leading cause of decline, according to a new study.
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#1198222019-02-07
How cutting-edge engineering borrows nature’s innovations
In the never-ending hunt for new designs that jump, pump, or run faster and better, scientists are finding inspiration in nature. The field of biomimicry blurs boundaries between living things -- like the butterfly’s proboscis or the flea's powerful legs -- and the inanimate to spur new problem- ...
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#1198232019-02-07
Carbon offsets: Worth buying to fight climate change?
If you've ever booked a flight with an airline like Air Canada or WestJet, you might have been offered a chance to pay money to "offset" the carbon emissions from your flight. But what exactly does that mean? Is it worthwhile? And how do you know you're really getting what you pay for?
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#1198242019-02-07
Met Office: global warming could exceed 1.5C within five years
Global warming could temporarily hit 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for the first time between now and 2023, according to a long-term forecast by the Met Office.
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#1198252019-02-07
Climate change: 'Future proofing' forests to protect orangutans
A study has identified key tree species that are resilient to climate change and support critically endangered apes. Planting them could help future proof rainforests, which are a key habitat for orangutans, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature - IUCN.
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#1198262019-02-07
Scientists in Sweden are studying the climate-cooling effects of spruce forests
Scientists are exploring whether coniferous trees might help to counter the effects of global warming. Deep in Sweden’s spruce forests researchers from Lund University are studying the cooling qualities of organic compounds called terpenes, which are abundant in conifer resin and also give spruc ...
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#1198272019-02-07
Nature’s insurance plan
Climate change is having a devastating impact on the planet, despite Trump’s bizarre intimations that the recent cold weather in North America is proof that global warming is welcome to “come back.”
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#1198282019-02-07
Feature: Returning to organic farming: next generation of Chinese farmers
Wang Xin, 33, is a landscape designer by profession and farmer in practice. The strawberries coming from his organic plantation in the southern outskirts of Beijing are believed by his clients to be "the best of China."
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#1198292019-02-07
Collective of 400 EU stakeholders call for a ‘common food policy’
400 agriculture-related EU stakeholders, convened by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), has mapped out a new governance architecture for food systems in a bid to create sustainable food systems under a ‘Common Food Policy’.
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#1198302019-02-07
Revive indigenous knowledge, reorient transport to deal with climate change, obesity and undernutrition
Reviving traditional peoples’ knowledge of sustainable food systems and use of biodiversity could act as a bulwark against the triple threat of obesity, undernutrition and climate change, described as “three of the gravest threats to human health and survival” in a new report.
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#1198312019-02-07
Research explains how snakes lost their limbs
Snakes and lizards are reptiles that belong to the order Squamata. They share several traits but differ in one obvious respect: Snakes do not have limbs. The two suborders diverged more than 100 million years ago. Identification of the genetic factors involved in this loss of limbs is a focus of ...
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#1198322019-02-07
How plants expand their capacity to use solar energy
Green plants capture light that spans the visible solar spectrum, and while a broad spectral range is required for sufficient absorption, the process requires energy to be funneled rapidly and efficiently downhill to drive charge separation and water splitting. Carotenoids, the accessory pigment ...
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#1198332019-02-07
Desert bacteria protect food crops from salt toxicity
Bacteria isolated from the Saudi desert have demonstrated plant-growth-promoting properties that could make them useful as biofertilizers.
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#1198342019-02-07
Understanding tropical rainfall, both past and present
A drop of rainwater that falls on a cassava field in Uganda takes a different path than one that falls 500 miles east in Somalia. Knowing where rain comes from now, and where it might come from under future climate scenarios, is important for the millions of people who rely on subsistence agricu ...
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#1198352019-02-07
Voyage into the unknown explores Indian Ocean's hidden depths
A mission to explore uncharted depths in the Indian Ocean was launched on Wednesday, hoping to discover hundreds of new species and find out what impact plastic is having way below the surface.
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#1198362019-02-07
Are forests now playing a role in air pollution?
A study suggests that as forests change, higher levels of nitrogen oxides are to be expected, making it more difficult for some regions to meet national air quality standards.
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#1198372019-02-07
Slaking the World’s Thirst with Seawater Dumps Toxic Brine in Oceans
Growing populations and tightening water supplies have spurred people in many places—including the Middle East, Australia, California and China—to look to the oceans and other salty waters as a source of new drinking water. But desalination plants are energy intensive and create a potentially en ...
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#1198382019-02-07
Using Artificial Intelligence to Study the History of Oceans
Stories abound of artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionizing industrial processes and space exploration. But AI is also assisting scientists down below, in the deep sea environment. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an AI program that can automatically identify spec ...
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#1198392019-02-07
Make Jamaica Green Again: 10 Powerful Women Leading The Sustainability Movement
Millions of tourists each year visit Jamaica for its spectacular natural landscapes, from the beaches of Portland to the coffee farms of the Blue Mountains. But, like all countries, Jamaica also has to contend with environmental problems that are compounded by being a small island nation.
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#1198402019-02-07
Montréal pressenti pour accueillir un bureau de l'ONU
L'Organisation des Nations unies (ONU) souhaite établir des racines plus profondes à Montréal, attirée notamment par la main-d'oeuvre bilingue qualifiée qu'offre la métropole et ses avancées dans le domaine de l'intelligence artificielle.
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#1198412019-02-07
Researchers map ferocious speed and likely cause of woody weed spread across Ethiopia
CABI scientists have helped map the ferocious speed and probable cause of a devastating spread of the invasive alien tree Prosopis juliflora (Swartz DC) across an area equivalent to half of neighbouring Djibouti in the Afar Region of north eastern Ethiopia.
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#1198422019-02-07
Climate change calls for global leadership
People in Hong Kong who have enjoyed a warmer Lunar New Year than usual should spare a thought for Americans who recently experienced the coldest winter in 50 years, prompting scientists to cite climate change. Towards the end of January, the United States National Weather Service warned residen ...
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#1198432019-02-07
Green New Deal: Ocasio-Cortez unveils bold plan to fight climate change
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is releasing a broad outline of a vision for the Green New Deal, a plan to battle economic and racial injustice while also fighting climate change.
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#1198442019-02-07
Why We Should Care About Parasites — and Their Extinction
Parasite. To most people, the very word is cause for fear or disgust—which is a shame, because most parasites don't actually harm their hosts. In fact their very existence is a sign of a healthy ecosystem, as I discussed on a recent segment of the Green Divas podcast. We also talked about the va ...
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#1198452019-02-07
Is the Urban Jungle the Answer to Helping Some Endangered Species?
At sunset every day, an almost deafening sound from the sky can be heard in a community just east of Los Angeles. It is the sound of parrots that have become a familiar part of life here.
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#1198462019-02-07
Earth Once Swallowed Its Own Superocean. Could It Happen Again?
The ancient supercontinent of Rodinia turned inside out as the Earth swallowed its own ocean some 700 million years ago, new research suggests.
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#1198472019-02-07
Liberia: The Potentials of Wonegizi As a Protected Area
The Potentials of Wonegizi as a Protected Area (PA) in the development of the communities, districts and Lofa County is in the process of gazettement.
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#1198482019-02-08
Northwest Forest Plan falling short of biodiversity goals
The Northwest Forest Plan was a groundbreaking policy to ensure wildlife habitat would not be lost to intensive logging in the western parts of Oregon, Washington and California. Now 25 years in, a new study shows it’s still a good ways off from achieving those goals.
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#1198502019-02-08
Tasmania's lakes among most contaminated in the world
Metal contamination levels in some of Tasmania’s lakes are among the highest in the world, a new study has found, while those within the state’s Wilderness World Heritage Area have also been badly polluted by mining.
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#1198512019-02-08
So What It's Warmer? - Climate Change Messaging Must Evolve Now
In my Forbes articles, I try to provide credible scientific information in a manner that a scientist, student, policymaker, or someone at the Mall can understand. I often use the "So What?" litmus test to convey my thoughts because many scientists get "stuck in the mud" of their discipline thou ...
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#1198522019-02-08
Climate Change: Earth very similar to 115,000 years ago, except dramatic sea level rise
Somewhere dating back to 115,000 years ago, humans or as we may call them homo sapiens were all the while living in groups of hunters and gatherers, to a great extent restricted to Africa. While these primates didn't have any idea, but the Earth was reaching the end of a noteworthy warm period. ...
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#1198532019-02-08
Organic Green New Deal? Comprehensive climate change policy must address the American food system
In the face of worsening climate chaos and massive economic inequities wreaking havoc on the nation, a broad coalition of social justice and environmental organizations and visionary politicians such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are building momentum for a Green New Deal. All electe ...
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#1198542019-02-08
Ancient spirituality guides a Maya town’s conservation efforts
It was Thursday, Nov. 8, but the Mayan calendar marked the day as Wukub’ Q’anil, or 7 Rabbit, a good day to ask for the rebirth of sterile lands and the fertility of all living beings. Rumualdo López, a Maya priest and spiritual guide, was prepared to hike up to the top of Siete Orejas, a mounta ...
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#1198552019-02-08
More women and girls needed in the sciences to solve world’s biggest challenges
The role of science education in a changing world cannot be undervalued: it is estimated that fully 90 per cent of future jobs will require some form of ICT (information and communication technology) skills, and the fastest growing job categories are related to STEM (science, technology, enginee ...
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#1198562019-02-08
Plastic-Free Year,’ ‘Plastic-Free Legacy’ programmes encourage recycling
Several initiatives to bolster tourism by encouraging the public and youth to recycling and eliminate single-use plastics have been launched by been launched by the Ministry of Tourism.
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#1198572019-02-08
From paradise to landfill: beloved California beach covered in trash
Beachgoers hoping to stretch their legs on southern California’s famous Seal Beach were surprised to find a mountain of trash instead of sand and surf this week.
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#1198582019-02-08
Inégalités, biodiversité... les priorités de la France pour le
La France qui accueille le G7 cette année du 24 au 26 août à Biarritz, a choisi pour thèmes prioritaires les inégalités de la mondialisation, l'inégalité hommes-femmes, la biodiversité, la protection des océans et le numérique, a indiqué jeudi la présidence française.
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#1198592019-02-08
Entrepreneurs, tous concernés par la biodiversité !
La biodiversité commence à être intégrée dans les modèles économiques des entrepreneurs comme une véritable source d’opportunités et de développement.C’est pourquoi experts et entrepreneurs ont échangé sur le potentiel de marché de la biodiversité et des innovations de ce secteur, lors de la 4e ...
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#1198602019-02-08
Brûler les déchets verts est nocif pour la santé et l’environnement
Brûler les déchets de jardin peut paraître un geste anodin. C'est pourtant interdit par la loi, car néfaste pour l'environnement comme pour votre santé. Explications.
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#1198622019-02-08
99 % de la forêt sèche de La Réunion a disparu
La forêt sèche est une forêt située sur le flanc ouest de l’île, du nord au sud. Elle est essentielle sur l’île de part sa biodiversité exceptionnelle. Pourtant elle est menacée d’extinction. Depuis l’arrivée de l’homme sur l’île, elle a perdu 99% de sa superficie. Un projet européen baptisé Lif ...