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#1268352021-02-03
Sri Lanka- Kalpitiya Reef under serious threat
Whilst the world's coral reef sanctuaries are facing the threat of being destroyed due to rising sea temperatures, local environmental groups have identified that the Kalpitiya Reef in Sri Lanka – also known as Bar Reef – faces the threat of being destroyed not as a result of rising ocean temper ...
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#1268402021-02-03
Terrawatch: the adventurous icebergs that trigger ice ages
Antarctic bergs travelling north spark changes in ocean circulations and affect composition of our atmosphere. How does an ice age start? We know that changes in the Earth’s orbit around the sun alter the amount of solar energy reaching our planet, but it has long been a mystery as to how this t ...
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#1268442021-02-03
Shark teeth offer clues to ancient climate change
Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfus in "Jaws," says that all sharks do is "swim and eat and make little sharks."It turns out they do much more than that. Sharks have roamed Earth's oceans for more than 400 million years, quietly recording the planet's history.
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#1268502021-02-03
Indigenous Peoples are critical to build a more sustainable post-pandemic world, says IFAD President
Indigenous Peoples have suffered disproportionately from the economic impacts of COVID-19, yet they hold essential knowledge for rebuilding a more sustainable and resilient post-pandemic world, free of poverty and hunger, said Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the UN’s International Fund for Agri ...
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#1268522021-02-03
New targets to protect biodiversity must include farmers and agriculture
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is a treaty that aims to develop national strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of a country’s natural resources, or biological diversity. This is a general strategy that all countries must then adopt at the local level.
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#1268532021-02-03
Study reveals how species once extinct in the wild have bounced back
In 1992, global leaders gathered at a United Nations summit in Rio de Janeiro to sign the landmark Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to promote sustainable development. Eighteen years later, at a summit in Aichi, Japan, representatives of 193 countries followed up on the CBD with a 20-goa ...
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#1268562021-02-03
Scientists Just Found a New Kind of Whale
Genetic analysis and a close examination of the skulls from a group of baleen whales in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico have revealed that they are a new species.
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#1268592021-02-03
Biodiversity is its own catalyst – to a point
For decades, scientists have wrestled with rival theories to explain how interactions between species, like competition, influence biodiversity. Tracking microbial life across the planet, researchers from McGill University show that biodiversity does in fact foster further diversity in microbiom ...
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#1267852021-02-01
World Wetlands Day, 2 February 2021
This year’s theme for World Wetlands Day ‘Wetlands and Water,’ highlights the importance of wetlands as a source of freshwater and encourages action to restore them and stop their loss. This is especially important as we mark the UN Decades of Ocean Science and Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030).
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#1267952021-02-01
Are plastics and microplastics in the ocean on the increase?
That is the question that Prof. Alan Deidun, resident academic within the Department of Geosciences of the Faculty of Science, along with a cohort of high-profile co-authors, posed within a study recently published in the Microplastics and Nanoplastics journal. Specifically, the study overviews ...
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#1267962021-02-01
Why ocean pollution is a clear danger to human health
Ocean pollution is widespread, worsening, and poses a clear and present danger to human health and wellbeing. But the extent of this danger has not been widely comprehended—until now. Our recent study provides the first comprehensive assessment of the impacts of ocean pollution on human health.
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#1267972021-02-01
How will COVID-19 ultimately impact climate change?
Business closures. Travel restrictions. Working and learning from home. These and other dramatic responses to COVID-19 have caused sharp reductions in economic activity—and associated fossil fuel consumption—around the world. As a result, many nations are reporting significant reductions in gree ...
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#1267992021-02-01
China & African youth hold talks on biodiversity conservation initiatives
A group of young conservationists drawn from China and Africa came together once again in an information exchange program aimed at exploring innovative avenues to promote the conservation of biodiversity.
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#1267542021-01-29
How marine protected areas help safeguard the ocean
The ocean quietly unites global communities in a profound way. And yet, the ocean faces more threats today than ever before in history.
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#1267692021-01-29
Mapping the most mysterious planet of all: Earth
Humanity knows more about the surface of the Moon than we know about our own planet's seafloor. Ocean explorer Vicki Ferrini is on a mission to change that. Ferrini's work focuses on seabed mapping and characterization, and ensuring that marine geoscience data are accessible to scientists and to ...
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#1267762021-01-29
Getting message right on nature-based solutions to climate change
Nature‐based solutions can play a key role in helping to tackle the climate and nature crises, while delivering other benefits for people, according to a new paper today from the Nature-based Solutions Initiative (NbSI) at the University of Oxford – but it is vital to get the message right about ...
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#1267242021-01-27
Earth Leadership Program Announces 2021 Cohort Of 21 Leading Sustainability Scientists
In the midst of cascading crises from climate change to biodiversity loss and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Earth Leadership Program - the global successor to the renowned Leopold Leadership Program, now in partnership with Future Earth - has announced its 2021-22 North American cohort.
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#1267282021-01-27
Deep water temperatures hit 'scary' highs in Gulf of St. Lawrence
A decade-long warming trend in the Gulf of St. Lawrence continued in 2020 with deep waters reaching record highs, according to ocean climate data released Tuesday by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Water temperatures at depths of 200, 250 and 300 metres were higher than any measured in t ...
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#1267292021-01-27
Healthy oceans matter
Sustainably managing the world's sea areas will help preserve marine ecosystems and fight climate change and biodiversity loss. The whole world has been overwhelmed by the urgent challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. But while this crisis is preoccupying the world, there are graver long-t ...
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#1267302021-01-27
Climate change brings challenges for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands—Read the 2021 assessment
Stronger typhoons, threats to coral reefs, and human health risks are among the major challenges detailed in a new report on climate change in the CNMI. Threatened resources include high-value coastal infrastructure and the millions of dollars that ocean ecosystems add to the CNMI economy annual ...
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#1267312021-01-27
Major discovery helps explain coral bleaching
An EPFL scientist has made a major breakthrough in the understanding of coral bleaching – a process that causes corals to lose their color and eventually leads to their death. The process is triggered by warmer ocean temperatures, and, according to the study, it begins much earlier than previous ...
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#1267402021-01-27
Humpback whales may be struggling to breed as climate crisis depletes food
Humpback whales could be struggling to breed due to rapid environmental change in the ocean caused by the climate crisis, a study suggests.
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#1267462021-01-27
Biden’s Historic Action on 30x30
The president’s executive order puts America on the path of protecting 30 percent of its land and inland waters and 30 percent of its ocean areas by 2030.
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#1266992021-01-26
Why forest-based carbon trading is poised to go mainstream
Ten years after it dropped off the sustainability radar, forest-based carbon trading is finally poised to get off the ground for real.
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#1267142021-01-26
How to set ambitious goals for sustainable agriculture
Food production in the Netherlands is an economic success but has led to many environmental issues, including nitrogen pollution. Recently, the policy to allow economic growth while reducing nitrogen losses was disapproved by the highest court in the Netherlands, casting the country into a nitro ...
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#1266612021-01-19
Diet to save: Our food system is fuelling climate change; are we ready to switch to a new diet?
It is the world’s largest production line: Starts with growing and harvesting crops, moves on to processing food, then transporting and marketing it; eventually the consumption and disposal of the waste. But the process that sustains 7.8 billion people also emits 21-37 per cent of all greenhouse ...
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#1266632021-01-19
UNCTAD updates principles to promote biodiversity-friendly trade
Guidelines to help governments, companies and consumers benefit from sustainable trade in precious plants and animals now include elements such as climate resilience and marine biodiversity.
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#1266742021-01-19
Sustainable tourism key to Cumbria’s new carbon neutral plan
Across Cumbria local communities, businesses and grassroots organisations are being mobilised to map out ways that they hope will help it become the UK’s first carbon-neutral county.
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#1266752021-01-19
New snake species discovered in southeastern Turkey
Faculty members at Hakkari University in Turkey announced Tuesday the discovery of a new snake species as part of research conducted in the city's rural region.
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#1266762021-01-19
Innovation to counter food supply-chain disruptions and spur recovery
At Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin, FAO Director-General appeals for a creative and integrated approach to agri-food systems to drive recovery from COVID-19 and achieve a sustainable world
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#1266772021-01-19
Acidification impedes shell development of plankton off the US West Coast
Shelled pteropods, microscopic free-swimming sea snails, are widely regarded as indicators for ocean acidification because research has shown that their fragile shells are vulnerable to increasing ocean acidity.
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#1266242021-01-15
Bla bla bla for biodiversity – Climate Weekly
Well sure, we all know that feeling. It’s true that governments’ record of protecting biodiversity is weak — none of the Aichi goals set in 2010 have been fully met. But given that one of the biggest barriers to restoring nature is a lack of cash, the pledges and financial initiatives announced ...
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#1266282021-01-15
Climate change: what would 4°C of global warming feel like?
Another year, another climate record broken. Globally, 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year ever recorded. This was all the more remarkable given that cool conditions in the Pacific Ocean – known as La Niña – began to emerge in the second half of the year. The Earth’s mean surface temperature ...
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#1266292021-01-15
Climate change: Impacts and way forward
As our climate continues to change, farmers struggle to grow crops, putting terrible pressure on the ability of the human to feed itself. Scientists warns that climate change could shrink the global food supply. Climate change causes erratic weather patterns and extreme temperatures. This signif ...
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#1266302021-01-15
Polyester fibres are being found in areas as remote as the Arctic Ocean
The Arctic has long proven to be a barometer of the health of our planet. This remote part of the world faces unprecedented environmental assaults, as climate change and industrial chemicals threaten a way of life for Inuit and other Indigenous and northern communities that rely heavily on seafo ...
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#1266332021-01-15
Ancient Oceans Were Surprisingly Resilient to Climate Change – But Things Are Different Today
Oxygen levels in the ancient oceans were surprisingly resilient to climate change, new research suggests. Scientists used geological samples to estimate ocean oxygen during a period of global warming 56 million years ago — and found “limited expansion” of seafloor anoxia (absence of oxygen).
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#1266472021-01-15
Phytoplankton factory in the Argentine Sea
The Goldilocks zone typically refers to the habitable area around a star where conditions are right for the existence of liquid water and possibly life. But on Earth, the South Atlantic Ocean has its own kind of Goldilocks zone. In spring and summer, conditions in the Argentine Sea off Patagonia ...
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#1266492021-01-15
Changing resilience of oceans to climate change
Oxygen levels in the ancient oceans were surprisingly resilient to climate change, new research suggests.
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#1266532021-01-15
New frog species found in east China
A new record of frog species was found in the city of Lishui, east China's Zhejiang Province, the municipal bureau of ecology and environment said on Tuesday.
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#1265962021-01-14
Human-induced climate change caused the northwestern Pacific warming record in August 2020
August 2020 set new record high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and around the Japan coasts. A new study led by National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) researchers revealed that this warming record could not happen without human-induced climate changes.
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#1265992021-01-14
Resilience to climate change? octopuses adapting to higher ocean acid levels
With the impact of climate change increasing by the day, scientists are studying the ways in which human behavior contributes to the damage. A recent study at Walla Walla University, by a collaboration of researchers from Walla Walla University and La Sierra University, examined the effects of a ...
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#1266102021-01-14
Scientists discover the secret of Galapagos' rich ecosystem
New research has unlocked the mystery of how the Galápagos Islands, a rocky, volcanic outcrop, with only modest rainfall and vegetation, is able to sustain its unique wildlife habitats.
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#1266202021-01-14
French President urges global leaders to support agricultural development
In a move to sustainably address rising hunger and poverty, exacerbated by COVID-19, climate change and biodiversity loss, French President Emmanuel Macron called on global leaders to step up their commitments in support of long-term agricultural development.
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#1265722021-01-12
Baby sharks emerge from egg cases earlier and weaker in oceans warmed by climate crisis
Baby sharks will emerge from their egg cases earlier and weaker as water temperatures rise, according to a new study that examined the impact of warming oceans on embryos.
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#1265732021-01-12
How the Right Investments Can Become a Tool to Tackle Climate Change
Lost in the news from last week of the extremist insurrection and siege of the U.S. Capitol building was a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that in 2020, weather and climate disasters in the U.S. shattered records. The 22 separate disasters, each costing ove ...
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#1265832021-01-12
Ocean pollutants 'have negative effect on male fertility'
Long-lived banned industrial chemicals may be threatening the fertility of male porpoises living off the UK. Polychlorinated byphenyls (PCBs) were phased out decades ago, but can build up in whales, dolphins and porpoises.
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#1265342021-01-11
UK pledges $4 bln to nature and biodiversity protection
The money will come from an existing commitment of 11.6 billion pounds for international climate finance. "We will not achieve our goals on climate change, sustainable development or preventing pandemics if we fail to take care of the natural world that provides us with the food we eat, the wate ...
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#1265362021-01-11
50 countries commit to protection of 30% of Earth's land and oceans
A coalition of 50 countries have committed to protect almost a third of the planet by 2030 to halt the destruction of the natural world and slow extinctions of wildlife.
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#1265452021-01-11
New bee species discovered in Israel
A new species of bee unique to the sand dunes of Israel's coastal plains has been identified and described by Alain Pauly, a taxonomist from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.
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#1265482021-01-11
Prince Charles calls for 'urgent' action as he launches ambitious £7.3billion Earth Charter plan to put green issues at heart of global post-pandemic recovery
The Prince of Wales today called on business leaders across the world to invest in green issues and sustainability as he launched a £7.3billion recovery plan to right a string of 'broken promises' over the environment.