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#1198632019-02-08
Chimpanzee 'mini-brains' hint at secrets of human evolution
At some point during human evolution, a handful of genetic changes triggered a dramatic threefold expansion of the brain's neocortex, the wrinkly outermost layer of brain tissue responsible for everything from language to self-awareness to abstract thought.
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#1198642019-02-08
The physics underlying complex biological architectures
A building's architectural plans map out what's needed to keep it from falling down. But design is not just functional: often, it's also beautiful, with lines and shapes that can amaze and inspire.
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#1198652019-02-08
Research suggests life thrived on Earth 3.5 billion years ago
Three and a half billion years ago, Earth hosted life, but was it barely surviving, or thriving? A new study carried out by a multi-institutional team with leadership including the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) provides new answers to this ques ...
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#1198662019-02-08
Think big—at least when it comes to global conservation
According to a group of international researchers, the potential for large countries to contribute to environmental protection is being overlooked.The researchers, spanning 13 universities and three countries, were led by UBC Okanagan's Adam T. Ford and Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Coristine.
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#1198672019-02-08
Seasons change: Researchers provide new definition for major Indian monsoon season
Toward the end of every year, the Northeast Indian Monsoon (NEM) batters southern India with torrents of driving rain, but climatologists have never precisely defined when the monsoon begins and ends.
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#1198682019-02-08
Verizon closes on U.S. telecom industry’s first Green Bond to fund environmental initiatives
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) today announced the close of the U.S. telecommunications industry’s first Green Bond.An amount equal to the net proceeds of the $1 billion offering will be used to fund a variety of new and existing green investments made during the two years prior ...
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#1198692019-02-08
Transforming Economies, States, & Societies – Building Evidence for Achieving SDGs
Following on from Finn Tarp, my predecessor, is a daunting prospect, but I look forward to working with my colleagues at UNU-WIDER and with our many partners to build on the achievements of the past 10 years.
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#1198702019-02-08
UK pupils to join global strike over climate change crisis
The school climate strikes that have led to tens of thousands of young people taking to the streets around the world over recent months are poised to arrive in the UK next Friday.
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#1198712019-02-08
Sea change: time to stop eating fish
Fish are in trouble. It seems that every week we hear warnings about drastically reduced populations in numerous species. And did you catch the disturbing story about UK fish and chip shops serving up endangered species to unwitting customers?
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#1198762019-02-11
Indigenous hardwood trees communicate climate resilience
When issues of forest conservation, adaptation, regeneration and restoration are discussed, rarely do we hear about the significance of indigenous hardwood trees’ role in the climate resilience matrix. Is it because they take long to grow or they are just brushed aside as not suitable enough to ...
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#1198772019-02-11
Over 40 percent of insect species face extinction: study
From butterflies to bees, nearly half of all insect species are threatened with extinction "over the next few decades." Scientists have warned of the devastating impact it could have on the future of humankind.
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#1198782019-02-11
Sensing Change: How Sound, Light and Smell Can Affect Plants and Animals
Last week, Romulus Whitaker, known popularly as India’s ‘snake man’, published an Instagram post expressing his concern about the Sheraton Grand Hotel next door to the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, outside Chennai, blasting loud music that was “triggering aberrant behaviour” among the animals.
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#1198792019-02-11
Between food and biodiversity
Cristiana Pasca Palmer : How does the weaver ant help to deliver the food on your plate? The answer might not be immediately obvious, but this feisty predator is critical to maintaining balance in the global food chain: eating and repelling fruit flies that could otherwise destroy lucrative and ...
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#1198802019-02-11
National Biodiversity Economy Strategy: opportunities for innovation and investment
In October 2018 the draft National Biodiversity Framework (NBF) was published for public comment. The NBF is a requirement under the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act (10/2004). Considering that South Africa is the third most biodiverse country in the world, the government, as ...
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#1198812019-02-11
We Are Eating The Planet's Last 'Megafauna' to Extinction
Humans are in the process of herding the world's largest animals right over the brink of extinction, and the main driving force is our insatiable appetite for meat.It's a dire warning, and it comes from the first analysis to look at how humans have impacted the world's "megafauna".
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#1198822019-02-11
A ‘mass invasion’ of polar bears is terrorizing an island town. Climate change is to blame.
Fences have risen around kindergartens. Special vehicles transport military personnel to their work sites. Residents of the island settlement are afraid to leave their homes.
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#1198832019-02-11
Can genetically engineered trees help save the world's disappearing Forests?
Compared to gene-edited babies in China and ambitious projects to rescue woolly mammoths from extinction, biotech trees might sound pretty tame.But releasing genetically engineered trees into forests to counter threats to forest health represents a new frontier in biotechnology.
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#1198842019-02-11
To fight deforestation first tackle inequality, study says
New research from the University of Bern says institutions like environmental policies, laws and regulations are vital in preventing agricultural expansion, and deforestation.
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#1198852019-02-11
The Green New Deal offers radical environmental and economic change
The revival of the Green New Deal framework (first developed in a report published in 2008) and popularized by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Justice Democrats in the US, is a huge advance for green campaigners, and hopefully, for our threatened species. That is because it has a single radical ask ...
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#1198862019-02-11
Climate Change Seen as Top Threat in Global Survey
Climate change is seen as the biggest international threat facing many nations, according to a 26-country survey released by the Pew Research Center on Sunday.
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#1198872019-02-11
Harrison Ford delivers apocalyptic climate change warning
Harrison Ford delivered a stark warning about climate change as he prepared to travel to Dubai to discuss ocean conservation.he Star Wars and Indiana Jones actor, 76, is one of the most high-profile speakers at this year’s World Government Summit, which begins on Sunday. He said that climate cha ...
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#1198882019-02-11
Allison Hanes: Quebec students poised to strike over climate change
It is with this mix of emotions that many young Quebecers regard the future. But it’s not so much their individual futures that are the source of worry; it’s their collective future. Or rather, our collective future as humans on a planet that is rapidly warming.
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#1198892019-02-11
Climate Change: All Coldest years on Earth occurred almost a century ago
The Earth has been warming up to quite an extent for the longest time. In fact, out of the last 19 years, 18 have been the warmest ever recorded, which does sound like a big deal with the present buzz of ice melting around Antarctica and Greenland. - See more at: https://www.skymetweather.com/co ...
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#1198902019-02-11
Egypt poised to again lead Africa in agricultural biotechnology innovation
When will Egypt again lead Africa in agricultural biotech innovation? That question kept running through my mind when I visited the North African country late last year to participate in the United Nation’s annual biodiversity conference.
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#1198912019-02-11
Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'
The world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review.
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#1198922019-02-11
Why are insects in decline, and can we do anything about it?
Many scientists think the current worldwide annihilation of wildlife is the beginning of a huge loss of species on Earth. It has happened five times in the last 4bn years, as a result of meteorite impacts, long ice ages and huge volcanic eruptions. But this one is the result not of natural cause ...
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#1198932019-02-11
A less meaty Year of the Pig?
A few days before the Chinese New Year, staff at a popular Sichuanese restaurant in Beijing’s Dongcheng district were busy serving customers and taking reservations for New Year’s Eve. Meat accounted for at least 65 per cent of the dishes on the New Year menu, typical of the several restaurants ...
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#1198942019-02-11
Totally cool turtles may help save species
A trial of ways to cool turtle nests is underway in Queensland's Far North as global warming threatens turtle populations throughout the tropics.
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#1198952019-02-11
How poppy flowers get those vibrant colours that entice insects
With bright reds and yellows—and even the occasional white—poppies are very bright and colorful. Their petals, however, are also very thin; they are made up of just three layers of cells. University of Groningen scientists Casper van der Kooi and Doekele Stavenga used microscopy and mathematical ...
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#1198962019-02-11
Climate and economic risks 'threaten 2008-style systemic collapse'
Environmental and social problems could interact in global breakdown, report says. The gathering storm of human-caused threats to climate, nature and economy pose a danger of systemic collapse comparable to the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new report that calls for urgent and radical re ...
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#1199042019-02-12
Researchers show that tropical reefs can host coral or seaweed communities under the same conditions
Tropical reefs are vulnerable ecosystems, sensitive to a variety of environmental conditions and disturbances, which can change their composition from vibrant coral reefs to vast fields of seaweed or barren rubble.
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#1199052019-02-12
Marine scientists find toxic bacteria on microplastics retrieved from tropical waters
A field survey conducted by a team of marine scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has uncovered toxic bacteria living on the surfaces of microplastics, which are pieces of plastic smaller than five millimetres in size, collected from the coastal areas of Singapore. These ba ...
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#1199062019-02-12
FAO to release “The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture” report
On Friday, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is set to present to the media the findings of the upcoming The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture report – to be launched on 22 February.
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#1199072019-02-12
Discovery of the oldest evidence of mobility on Earth
Scientists have uncovered the oldest fossilized traces of motility. Whereas previous remnants were dated to 570 million years ago, this new evidence is 2.1 billion years old. They were discovered in a fossil deposit in Gabon, where the oldest multicellular organisms have already been found.
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#1199092019-02-12
Biodiversité : Le Gabon interdit à titre « à titre conservatoire » l’exportation de l’Iboga
Pour les défenseurs de l’environnement et de la biodiversité, il s’agit d’une très bonne nouvelle. « L’exportation de tout ou partie de l’Iboga, brut ou dérivé, est suspendue à titre conservatoire », indique le ministère des Forêts et de l’Environnement a travers un arrêté (n°0001/MFEPC/CAB-M) p ...
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#1199102019-02-12
Reseachers get AI help to map ecosystem, wildlife conservation
What’s new is that AI-based technologies are catching on big time across Indian research organisations working on environment and conservation. These organisations are being backed by big-ticket funding programs such as Microsoft’s AI for Earth, a $50 million, five-year program that has eight pa ...
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#1199112019-02-12
Sans vers de terre, on mangerait les pissenlits par la racine
C'est le premier marqueur de la bonne santé des sols: le ver de terre méritait bien qu'on lui rende hommage. C'est désormais chose faite grâce au bel essai de l'agronome Christophe Gatineau.
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#1199122019-02-12
Boat made of old flip-flops flies flag for cleaner African seas
It was 6pm when an unusual rainbow-coloured boat, made of recycled plastic waste and discarded flip-flops gathered from beaches and roadsides, dropped anchor off the beach at Mtwapa, near Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa.
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#1199132019-02-12
Scientists are calling for 'artificial trees' to fight climate change
Plants are humanity's greatest ally in the fight against climate change. Plants soak up carbon dioxide and turn it into leaves and branches. The more trees humans plant, the less heat-trapping carbon pollution in the air. Unfortunately, plants require a lot of water and land, so much that humans ...
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#1199142019-02-12
There's 'no place on the planet' – not even Hawaii – to escape climate change, experts say
When it gets cold every winter, Hawaii becomes an increasingly popular retreat. But climate experts in the Aloha State told USA TODAY on Monday that tourists cannot escape climate change – not even on the islands, where 60-foot waves and wind gusts up to 191 mph were part of a fierce weekend sto ...
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#1199152019-02-12
25 Ways to Set an Earth-Loving Mood this Valentine’s Day
It’s almost that special time of year when you let your dears know how much they mean to you. Why not express a little love for the natural world while you’re at it? We scouted out items intended to help reignite that passion for the Earth, and for adventure. From the traditional to the surprisi ...
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#1199162019-02-12
Canada's forests actually emit more carbon than they absorb — despite what you've heard on Facebook
You might have heard that Canada's forests are an immense carbon sink, sucking up all sorts of CO2 — more than we produce — so we don't have to worry about our greenhouse gas emissions.
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#1199172019-02-12
Stirling University to study climate impact on forests
An £800,000 study led by Stirling University will investigate how European forests are affected by changing climates. The project will focus on the impact of warming climates on beech, Europe's most widespread broadleaf tree - covering more than 15m hectares.
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#1199182019-02-12
Are Sustainable Development Goals Reaching Indigenous Peoples?
Life and death for whole communities hang in the balance of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that include eliminating poverty, conserving forests, and addressing climate change in a resolution adopted unanimously by the United Nations in 2015.
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#1199192019-02-12
Environment in multiple crises - report
Politicians and policymakers have failed to grasp the gravity of the environmental crisis facing the Earth, a report claims. The think-tank IPPR says human impacts have reached a critical stage and threaten to destabilise society and the global economy.
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#1199202019-02-12
New method of fertilizer production can better suit the needs of farms in Africa and around the globe
Nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium are the three elements that support the productivity of all plants used for agriculture, and are the constituents of commercial fertilizers that farmers use throughout the world.
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#1199212019-02-12
Ancient Greek Wisdom for a Healthy Gut and Immune System
The ancient Greek Father of Medicine, Hippocrates penned that “all diseases begin in the gut” and that for true healing and optimum health that we need to exercise, “let medicine be thy food and food thy medicine” and the “natural forces within us are the true healers of disease”.
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#1199222019-02-12
Chocolate could be extinct by 2050, but some companies think genetic engineering could save their supply
The world's chocolate supply is dwindling. As our global sweet tooth begins to outpace cocoa production, major chocolate companies like Mars Inc. and Barry Callebaut expect to see an industry deficit of 4.4 billion pounds of chocolate by 2030. And by 2050, the cacao seeds used to make chocolate ...
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#1199232019-02-12
Sanjayan, Harrison Ford of Conservation International learn about UAE’s biodiversity protection efforts
While touring the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, has highlighted the UAE’s continued efforts to conserve the desert environment and promote protected areas as ecotourism sites to Dr. M. Sanjayan, CEO of Conservation ...
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#1199262019-02-14
WATCH | Rare black leopard snapped in Africa 'near Wakanda'
Whispers of sightings of the elusive black leopard have long swirled around central Kenya, and scientists have now confirmed its presence there with a series of rare images taken by camera traps.