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#1199272019-02-14
Tree love this Valentine’s Day
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Forests News asked staff at Center for International Forestry Research Center (CIFOR) about their true love. Here’s what they had to say:
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#1199282019-02-14
Global biodiversity crisis demands conservation action that is both effective and equitable
Few places on our planet remain untouched by humans. The growing global demand for food, fibre, fuels, shelter and freshwater is driving the loss and degradation of natural forests, wetlands, coastal areas and other ecosystems. It has had devastating consequences for biodiversity and the life-su ...
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#1199292019-02-14
India and Nepal to enter formal agreement for biodiversity conservation
India and Nepal are all set to ink an agreement to cooperate on biodiversity conservation, including transboundary landscape management and focus on conservation of species like tigers, elephants and rhinos. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is expected to be signed before India’s upcoming p ...
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#1199302019-02-14
Biodiversity Conservation on a Newly-formed Island
Four years ago, an island was erected out of what seemed like thin air. In a desolate place once only greeted by the sound of crashing waves and an occasional seabird, a formation of rock protruded outwards and upwards. The new island is officially nameless but has been coined Hunga Ha’apai (Hun ...
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#1199312019-02-14
WWF launches global green city awards
he World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) launched its “One Planet City Challenge 2019” on Tuesday.This year the One Planet City Challenge has a new assessment framework based on data from the IPCC, the UN climate panel.
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#1199322019-02-14
Environmental activist Vandana Shiva speaks on the importance of earth justic
The Student Environmental Council and Ashoka hosted environmental activist Vandana Shiva to speak as part of Student Union’s Trending Topics speaker series in Graham Chapel Feb. 13.
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#1199332019-02-14
Climate pioneers: how small farmers could be leading the way towards sustainable agriculture
Agriculture is a leading cause of climate change, but it is also undeniably affected by it. Farming must therefore change in order to keep up with global demands, while reducing its environmental impact. Without these necessary changes, it’s estimated that by 2030, the impacts of climate change ...
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#1199342019-02-14
Food finally features in the climate debate. Now what?
After years of neglect, agriculture finally found a place in the climate talks in 2017. Its absence during the lifespan of the United Nations negotiations on climate change was always conspicuous.
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#1199352019-02-14
Fourth Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD
The Fourth Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum, organized by IFAD in Rome, took place on February 12th and 13th. First established in 2011, the forum is a permanent process of consultation and dialogue between representatives from indigenous peoples’ institutions and organizations, ...
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#1199362019-02-14
The bitter sweet truth about chocolate
As Valentine’s Day rears its red and pink, slightly ridiculous head, chocolate sales increase in leaps and bounds. Sweet stuff in general goes hand-in-hand with gestures of affection and special occasions, but only Easter tops Valentine’s for a focus on cocoa-derived loot. It’s just plain sad th ...
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#1199372019-02-14
Buy organic food to help curb global insect collapse, say scientists
Buying organic food is among the actions people can take to curb the global decline in insects, according to leading scientists. Urging political action to slash pesticide use on conventional farms is another, say environmentalists.
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#1199382019-02-14
Headteachers in a bind as pupils prepare to go on UK climate strike
School leaders are having to wrestle with their consciences over pupils joining the nationwide climate strike to be held on Friday afternoon, caught between their duties as teachers and instincts as educators.
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#1199392019-02-14
UBC studying past volcanic activity in B.C. for glimpse into climate change future
Scientists are trying to reconstruct what the environment and climate of southwest British Columbia looked like over the past two million years by studying volcanoes that erupted under the glaciers.
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#1199402019-02-14
With Climate Change, Washington, D.C. Will Feel More Like Arkansas by 2080
The threat of climate change is big, yet nebulous enough that it can be easy to ignore despite mounting evidence that humanity faces a future with more extreme heat waves, floods, drought and food shortages. Those hazards may just affect someone else. But a new study aims to make the effects per ...
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#1199412019-02-14
Climate change increases potential for conflict and violence
Images of extensive flooding or fire-ravaged communities help us see how climate change is accelerating the severity of natural disasters. The devastation is obvious, but what is not as clear is the indirect effect of these disasters, or more generally of rapid climate change, on violence and ag ...
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#1199422019-02-14
Drink salty water or go thirsty – Climate change hits Tanzanian school children
The students at Kingani school in the Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo used to have two choices for drinking water at school: get sick or remain thirsty.Rising sea levels, increased drought and reduced or erratic rainfall made the drinking wells so salty it would cause headaches, stomach aches and ulc ...
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#1199432019-02-14
Italy Is About to Run Out of Olive Oil — and Climate Change May Be to Blame
Olive oil can already be a luxury item, with artisanal varieties commanding upwards of $50 a bottle. But prices of the cooking staple could rise across the board as climate change and extreme weather affects olive harvests worldwide.
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#1199442019-02-14
The Heart Of Climate Change: New ESA Image Shows 'Island Love' Under Threat
Consider this picture a love letter — from Planet Earth. Just in time for Valentine's Day, this cute new "island love" space image shows the heart-shaped island of Moorea in French Polynesia. But the picture also stands as a stark symbol of climate change, the European Space Agency says.
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#1199452019-02-14
Thailand Releases Draft Biodiversity Act
Thailand is one of the most biodiversity-rich countries in the world due to its large variety of ecosystems, landscapes, and habitats. This array of natural resources has played a large role in supporting local livelihoods for millennia, and since industrialization has contributed significantly ...
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#1199472019-02-14
Un vice-Premier ministre chinois appelle à de solides efforts pour la conservation de la biodiversité
Le vice-Premier ministre chinois Han Zheng a insisté, mercredi, sur la nécessité de faire de solides efforts pour protéger davantage la diversité biologique.
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#1199482019-02-14
Afrique : l’impact écologique mieux pris en compte dans le financement des projets
Le développement de l’Afrique reste conditionné par le financement de grands projets par des bailleurs de fonds internationaux. Or, ces derniers se montrent de plus en plus exigeants concernant l’impact écologique des infrastructures. C’est pourquoi certains porteurs de projets, ou leurs partena ...
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#1199492019-02-14
La disparition accélérée d’insectes est aussi inquiétante que celle des grands mammifères
Evidemment, la menace de disparition des éléphants ou des rhinocéros des savanes africaines provoque davantage d’émotion que le déclin rapide des mouches, pucerons, fourmis ou coléoptères sur la surface de la planète. Il n’empêche : la disparition accélérée, depuis quelques décennies, de toutes ...
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#1199502019-02-14
'Seeing' tails help sea snakes avoid predators
New research has revealed the fascinating adaptation of some Australian sea snakes that helps protect their vulnerable paddle-shaped tails from predators.
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#1199522019-02-15
Proposed bill seeks to ensure more protected areas in Seychelles
A new bill to replace the National Parks and Nature Conservancy Act is being proposed in Seychelles to ensure more protected areas in the island nation.
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#1199532019-02-15
Marine Protected Areas To Expand
MORE than 10 years ago, the government committed to protecting and effectively managing 20 percent of our marine environment by 2020 to ensure a healthy marine environment and sustain livelihoods in fisheries and tourism.
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#1199542019-02-15
Climate strike: UK school pupils take part in call for urgent action
Thousands of schoolchildren and young people in the UK have taken part in climate strikes with the support of a former UN climate chief, who said it was “time to heed the deeply moving voice of youth”.
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#1199552019-02-15
Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built. Can't humans see the writing on the wall?
I stood behind a worn shopping center outside of Crystal Springs, Florida, looking for the refuge where a hundred manatees were gathered for winter. I found them clustered in the emerald-colored spring, trying to enjoy a wedge of sunlight and avoid the hordes of people like me, boxing them in on ...
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#1199562019-02-15
Climate strike: Why are students striking and will it have an impact?
Are the UK's school strikes for climate change the moment that British youth finally wakes up to the "climate emergency"? It may not represent a paradigm shift just yet, but the speed and scale of this young person's movement does make it feel more than a momentary splutter of impotent anger.
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#1199572019-02-15
Meal kits cut food waste but packaging is a problem, study finds
Home delivery meal kits can slash food waste by more than two-thirds, but suppliers need to switch to reusable packaging to make them environmentally friendly, researchers say.
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#1199582019-02-15
'The beginning of great change': Greta Thunberg hails school climate strikes
Greta Thunberg is hopeful the student climate strike on Friday can bring about positive change, as young people in more and more countries join the protest movement she started last summer as a lone campaigner outside the Swedish parliament
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#1199592019-02-15
New species of non-venomous keelback snake found in Arunachal Pradesh
Recent discoveries such as a new species of burrowing eel, a new sub-subspecies of endangered hog deer and several species of frogs, geckos, diatoms and insects, have put the northeastern region of India in the limelight. This time, researchers from Help Earth and the French National Museum of N ...
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#1199602019-02-15
This Newly Discovered African Tarantula Has a Rude-Looking Horn on Its Back
While many people's reaction to big hairy spiders is usually "AHHH", you've got to admit, this spider's odd-looking back appendage does look rather amusing. The peculiar and previously undocumented protrusion belongs to the tarantula Ceratogyrus attonitifer found in Angola, Central Africa.
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#1199612019-02-15
Delays in banning wildlife trade put hundreds of species at risk
From parrots to lizards, hundreds of animal species could be at risk of extinction because of a policy process that responds slowly to scientific knowledge, according to a new study in Science.
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#1199622019-02-15
Plastic bringing waves of alien crabs and fish to shores around the world, scientists warn
Hundreds of alien species are being carried around the world on a tide of ocean plastic, posing a significant threat to native wildlife.Crabs, clams and even large fish are among the creatures hitching a ride on top of or inside plastic vessels, crossing vast stretches of ocean.
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#1199632019-02-15
This unique map shows which rivers are most polluted with plastic
Every year, approximately eight million metric tons of plastic enters the world’s oceans – the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic every single minute.
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#1199642019-02-15
Can Our Individual Plastic Footprint Stop The Ocean Of Waste From Submerging Us?
Plastic production will increase by 20,000% in 40 years if we keep things how they are. Plastic is everywhere. Over the years it became one of the most used material, and it got to a point where the cars and planes we travel on are made at 50% by plastic, or where it is more common for clothes t ...
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#1199652019-02-15
Food webs alter as warmer seas change colour
The Blue Planet is to get a little bluer as the world warms and climates change. Where the seas turn green, expect an even deeper verdant tint, new research suggests.
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#1199662019-02-15
New treaty bans commercial fishing in the Arctic for 16 years
The European Union and nine other countries, including the US and Russia, approved an international agreement on Thursday (14 February) that will prohibit commercial vessels from fishing in the Arctic in order to preserve the region’s fragile ecosystem.
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#1199672019-02-15
It's not just microbeads - these are the beauty ingredients that are still polluting our oceans
Remember January 8th 2018? No? Well, it was a great day, namely because the UK government banned the production of microbeads in rinse-off cosmetics, including shower gels, soaps and face wash.
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#1199682019-02-15
Prickly pears: 'humble' cactus brings hope to Algeria
For generations Algerians like the Gueldasmi family have barely eked out a living growing prickly pear fruits, but thanks to the cactus's new found virtues their lives are steadily improving."Now, my future is here. There is no need to go abroad" to find work, said Fethi Gueldasmi, 40, whose fam ...
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#1199692019-02-15
Preserved leaves reveal 7000 years of rainfall and drought
A study by University of Adelaide researchers and Queensland Government scientists has revealed what south-east Queensland's rainfall was like over the last 7000 years – including several severe droughts worse and longer lasting than the 12-year Millennium Drought.
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#1199702019-02-15
The smallest skeletons in the marine world observed in 3-D by synchrotron techniques
Coccolithophores are microscopic marine algae that use carbon dioxide to grow, and release carbon dioxide when they create their miniature calcite shells. These tiny, abundant planktonic microorganisms could therefore be seriously impacted by current increasing carbon dioxide emissions.
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#1199712019-02-15
Finland can’t keep its promise to halt biodiversity loss by 2020, admits Tiilikainen
Finland will be unable to fulfil its commitment to stop biodiversity loss by 2020, concedes Kimmo Tiilikainen (Centre), the Minister of the Environment. The Finnish government adopted an ambitious strategy for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in December 2012, stating that th ...
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#1199722019-02-15
Biodiversity of Hindu Kush Himalayas will plummet by 2100
It’s not just the snow and ice that’s disappearing on the roof of the world. Animals and plant species, crop diversity and ecosystem diversity are disappearing in one of the world’s richest biodiversity hotspots. This is the evidence presented in the landmark ICIMOD assessment report on the sta ...
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#1199732019-02-15
How to eat to save the world
There is not a country in the world that is not grappling with the serious health and environmental consequences of its citizens’ diets. There has to be a better way to feed everyone well and sustainably.
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#1199742019-02-15
« Dans 75 % du territoire, la nature va plutôt mal »
Si la France dispose d’un grand nombre d’aires protégées, bénéfiques pour la biodiversité, la situation globale est loin d’être satisfaisante. Entretien avec Jean-Philippe Siblet, chargé du patrimoine naturel au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, président du groupe liste verte en France.
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#1199752019-02-15
Sur la Côte Bleue, la faune marine reprend ses droits
Le parc marin de la Côte Bleue, à quelques milles de Marseille, fait partie des dix sites français inscrits sur la « liste verte » de l’Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature.
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#1199762019-02-15
The unexpected little underdogs of the big bad desert
Deserts are harsh ecosystems defined by high daytime temperatures that can dehydrate bodies quickly and low night temperatures that demand warm shelters. Despite the extremes, deserts are sanctuaries to a diversity of life forms. Animals living in these habitats have adopted mechanisms to cope w ...
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#1199782019-02-18
In Action: How Asia Pulp & Paper is achieving SDG 15 Life On Land
In the first of a new series investigating how corporates are engaging with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to accelerate strategic aims, edie looks at how Asia Pulp & Paper is driving out deforestation while improving the livelihoods of its workers in Indonesia.
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#1199792019-02-18
Vietnam bolsters tree planting, livelihoods for forest growers
In 2019, Vietnam’s forestry sector will foster the implementation of forest development policies and the building of a production chain, said Vu Xuan Thon, head of the Management Board of Forestry Projects under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).