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#1343522022-05-11
A green revolution for this century: Minister Ford at COP15 on Desertification
Minister for Africa Vicky Ford visited Côte d’Ivoire to attend the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Conference of the Parties (COP) 15.
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#1343532022-05-11
UNCCD to Chalk out Plans to Restore 1 billion Hectares of Degraded Land
The CoP15 will discuss and plan urgent actions to restore a billion hectares of degraded land between now and 2030, in addition to future-proofing land use against the effects of climate change and addressing escalating disaster risks such as droughts, sand and dust storms, and wildfires.
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#1343542022-05-11
India committed towards target of restoring 26 mn ha degraded land by 2030 despite Covid, economic challenges: Environment Minister
Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday said that the Covid-19 pandemic has “compounded the challenge of fighting global warming” as economic pressures have delayed progress of climate action around the world.
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#1343552022-05-11
International Biodiversity Day: Over 1 million plant, animal species facing extinction worldwide, say Experts
As a part of its 22-day campaign to mark the International Biodiversity Day, the Pushpa Gujral Science City has been organising different events. At a webinar held on Tuesday on “Indigenous Animal Bio-diversity: Present Status and Future”, a number of schools and colleges from across the state p ...
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#1343562022-05-11
Birds Eye kicks off biodiversity campaign with giant wildflower artwork
Campaign seeks to educate nation on importance of biodiversity and impact of its loss, as well as what we can all do to help protect it, with 20,000 wildflower seed boxes up for grabs
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#1343572022-05-11
Micro and nano plastics in the atmosphere are polluting oceans! Here’s how
As the plastic particles can travel to the regions of the planet that are still largely untouched and remote could affect the surface climate and the health of the local ecosystem.
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#1343582022-05-11
Experts call for global strategy to monitor effect of airborne plastic pollution on oceans
An international team of experts has called for the creation of an observation network to monitor the effect of airborne plastic pollution on oceans.
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#1343592022-05-11
91% Of Surveyed Corals Bleached Along Great Barrier Reef, Australia Says
More than 90% of coral reefs surveyed along Australia’s Great Barrier Reef were bleached in recent months due to catastrophically warm ocean temperatures, according to a new report by the top government agency monitoring the structure’s health.
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#1343602022-05-11
International project aims to understand and protect endangered sea turtles
A partnership of organisations and universities in the UK and Grenada has launched a new project looking into the challenges and threats facing two endangered marine species.
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#1343612022-05-11
The population of once an endangered specie, ‘Turkman wild goat’ growing in Pakistan
The population of the Turkman wild goat also known as Sindh ibex has shown significant growth in Pakistan in the last decade due to a blanket ban on hunting and the protection provided by local communities.
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#1343622022-05-11
Climate change is devastating the Global South
Right now in India and Pakistan, a record-breaking heatwave is impacting the daily lives of nearly a billion people. Scorching temperatures are damaging wheat harvests, preventing many labourers from working outdoors, and making people vulnerable to serious health issues and even death.
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#1343632022-05-11
Scientist-moms explore why climate change messaging falls flat
When Melissa Burt, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, made a video about the climate crisis, it included images of her daughter, Mia.
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#1343642022-05-11
Climate Change Controlled Where Early Humans Lived
Astronomically driven climate change influenced where various archaic humans—a broad group including Homo sapiens, Denisovans, and Homo neanderthalensis who roamed the earth about 2.3 million years ago—lived and when they moved to new locations.
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#1343652022-05-11
What NZ's lost moa is teaching us about climate change
New Zealand's long-lost moa can offer useful insights into how today's species might respond to a fast-changing climate, scientists say.
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#1343662022-05-11
Climate change ‘may already’ be making interspecies viral outbreaks more likely – study
A new modelling study published in the journal Nature is the first of its kind to project how global heating will increase virus swapping between species.
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#1343672022-05-11
Vanuatu’s push for legal protection from climate change wins crucial support
Vanuatu’s push for the international court of justice to protect vulnerable nations from climate change has received the backing of 1,500 civil society organisations from more than 130 countries, as it heads toward a crucial vote at the UN General Assembly later this year.
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#1343682022-05-11
365 Days of Climate Awareness 256 – Chile and Climate Change
Chile’s climate is extremely diverse, from hot and arid in the tropical north to glaciers and alpine tundra in the south. Being a narrow strip of land between mountains and sea makes for small microclimatic zones and dynamic conditions.
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#1343692022-05-11
Biodiversity Amendments Will Further Isolate India’s Agri, Environment Ministries
The proposed Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill 2021 encourages a conducive environment for investments and to simplify the patent application process.
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#1343852022-05-11
Giant stingray catch puts spotlight on Mekong biodiversity
A team of marine biologists have welcomed the discovery of an endangered giant freshwater stingray during a recent expedition to a remote stretch of the Mekong River in Cambodia, though they warned the biodiversity of the area was under threat.
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#1343212022-05-10
High-level UN conference debates precious commodity: Land
The 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), kicked-off on Monday, in the Ivorian "economic" capital.
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#1343222022-05-10
Time is now to future proof the land, world leaders say at Abidjan Summit
Heads of State and Government meeting at the United Nations’ global conference on land have called on the international community to take urgent action to stem the loss of life and livelihoods that communities all over the world are experiencing due to the increasing and devastating impacts of d ...
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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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#1343242022-05-10
Draft report on Desertification and drought to be discussed at COP15
A draft report about effective policy and implementation measures for addressing drought will be discussed during the ongoing session of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP15 on Tuesday.
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#1343252022-05-10
Soil microbes use different pathways to metabolize carbon
Much of what scientists think about soil metabolism may be wrong. New evidence from Northern Arizona University suggests that microbes in different soils use different biochemical pathways to process nutrients, respire, and grow.
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#1343262022-05-10
Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026
The world is creeping closer to the warming threshold international agreements are trying to prevent, with nearly a 50-50 chance that Earth will temporarily hit that temperature mark within the next five years, teams of meteorologists across the globe predicted.
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#1343272022-05-10
New research pinpoints 'blue corridors' for highly migratory fish
New research has pinpointed four high-traffic areas in the Pacific Ocean that should be considered of high priority if conservation efforts focused on large pelagic fishes such as tuna, blue marlin and swordfish are to be successful.
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#1343282022-05-10
The Ocean Is Starting to Lose Its Memory, Scientists Warn
The oceans that surround us are transforming. As our climate changes, the world's waters are shifting too, with abnormalities evident not only in the ocean's temperature, but also its structure, currents, and even its color.
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#1343292022-05-10
Coral reefs provide stunning images of a world under assault
Humans don’t know what they’re missing under the surface of a busy shipping channel in the “cruise capital of the world.” Just below the keels of massive ships, an underwater camera provides a live feed from another world, showing marine life that’s trying its best to resist global warming.
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#1343302022-05-10
Distantly related mushrooms gained the ability to make toxin via horizontal gene transfer
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and the U.S. has found evidence that suggests three distantly related types of mushrooms gained their ability to produce a dangerous toxin via horizontal gene transfer sometime in their past.
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#1343312022-05-10
How a volcanic bombardment in ancient Australia led to the world's greatest climate catastrophe
Some 252 million years ago the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming. To understand what caused it, scientists have looked to one particular event in which a volcanic eruption in what is now Siberia spewed huge volumes of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
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#1343322022-05-10
Ice-capped volcanoes slower to erupt, study finds
The Westdahl Peak volcano in Alaska last erupted in 1992, and continued expansion hints at another eruption soon. Experts previously forecasted the next blast to occur by 2010, but the volcano—located under about 1 kilometer of glacial ice—has yet to erupt again.
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#1343332022-05-10
Chile's first complete ichthyosaur recovered from a glacier in Patagonia
The fossilized remains of Chile's first complete ichthyosaur have been unearthed from a melting glacier deep in the Patagonia area of the South American country.
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#1343342022-05-10
More Human Remains Have Been Revealed By Climate Change At Lake Mead
Thanks to the ongoing drought in the US, the parched, rapidly receding waters of Nevada's Lake Mead have revealed a second set of long-lost human remains in less than a week.
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#1343352022-05-10
Talia Resnick: Exploring the Roles of Companies in Combating Climate Change
Columbia Climate School’s inaugural class of students will don their blue caps and robes for Commencement and Class Day this week. But while classes may be over, the students will be working at a variety of exciting internships this summer, before officially graduating in August.
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#1343362022-05-10
Mountains Undergo Enhanced Impacts of Climate Change
Mountain regions cover approximately a quarter of the Earth’s land surface, although the exact percentage depends on criteria used to define them. The rain and snow that fall in mountains eventually move downstream and provide water for millions of people.
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#1343372022-05-10
6 months after the climate summit, where to find progress on climate change in a more dangerous and divided world
Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations’ Glasgow climate summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change.
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#1343382022-05-10
Climate change: put water at the heart of solutions
I was born in a village near the Sundarbans mangrove forests in West Bengal, India. Many of my childhood memories are of overheard conversations — worried adults discussing how the rains failed or how brackish water crept in to ruin the rice crop.
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#1343392022-05-10
Climate change pushing pine beauty moth northward in Finland 50 years ahead of predictions
Climate change is causing the pine pest Panolis flammea, or pine beauty moth, to shift its range northward 50 years ahead of predictions, according to a new study
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#1343402022-05-10
Copenhagen's unusually high benches are raising the alarm on climate change
Walking around Copenhagen right now, you might be surprised to see very tall public benches adorning the streets. And what makes it even more peculiar is that a TV channel has installed them - but not for filming.
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#1343412022-05-10
Why Everyone Should Care About Africa’s Land and Biodiversity | Opinion
In a world marked by an ever-faster news cycle, conflict, and division, there are few opportunities to plan for the future, repair previous generations’ damage, and build a better, fairer, and more sustainable tomorrow.
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#1343422022-05-10
Air-Conditioning Should Be a Human Right in the Climate Crisis
A record-breaking heat wave is sweeping South Asia, threatening hundreds of millions of people with deadly temperatures well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
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#1343432022-05-10
Largest ever study of its kind reveals whales evolved in three rapid phases
A new study lead by Dr. Ellen Coombs, who studied her Ph.D. at The Natural History Museum and University College London, has revealed for the first time that the diversity we see in whale (Cetacea) skulls was achieved through three key periods of rapid evolution.
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#1343442022-05-10
First assessment of metabolites in African savanna elephants
North Carolina State University researchers have conducted the first assessment of metabolites in African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana), an important step in understanding the relationship between metabolism and health in these endangered animals.
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#1343452022-05-10
Animal research: Influence of experimenters on results less strong than expected
For more than ten years now, scientists have been discussing the so-called reproducibility crisis: often, scientific findings cannot be reproduced at a later time and/or in other laboratories, although the studies are carried out under highly standardized conditions.
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#1343462022-05-10
Novel species of pathogenic bacteria of onion identified in Texas
While conducting the survey of bacteria in onions, a team of Texas A&M AgriLife researchers in Uvalde identified a new pathogen—a bacterial species now named for where it was found.
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#1343472022-05-10
New techniques for retrieving fingerprints from ivory to mitigate poaching
The use of new techniques for retrieving fingerprints from ivory has been validated for the first time by scientists from King's College London and University College London in collaboration with imaging and fingerprint experts from the Metropolitan Police.
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#1343482022-05-10
Lights out, Chicago! Millions of birds expected to migrate over city in next two days
Conserving energy and stargazing are two of many reasons people opt to turn their lights out at night, but over the next couple of days, experts are urging residents to also flip their switches between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. to help save the lives of millions of migrating birds.
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#1343492022-05-10
Notes from the floor of UNCCD COP15
Happening now in Abidjan, the capital city of the Ivory Coast, is the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
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#1342862022-05-05
Safeguarding Biodiversity is Vital for Tourism to Costa Rica
Costa Rica is one of the most desired destinations by tourists from various parts of the world and one of the reasons is related to its extensive biodiversity since foreigners want to know the natural beauties that it houses in its more than 51 thousand square kilometers.
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#1342872022-05-05
Discover Some Of Canada’s Best Spots And Events For Birding
Birding isn’t just for avid ornithologists – the hobby appeals equally to families with young children, photographers, sustainability advocates and people seeking an excuse for a stroll.