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#1200312019-02-20
Australian mammal becomes first to go extinct due to climate change
(CNN)A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to "human-induced climate change," the government says.
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#1200322019-02-20
Academic: Very Few Climate Change Doubters, Issue Now Action
NICOSIA, CYPRUS (AP) — A prominent American economist says there are "very few" individuals left who still doubt climate change because the evidence of its impact is clear.
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#1200332019-02-20
The US debate on climate change is heating up
Might the US move from being a laggard to a leader in tackling global climate change?
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#1200342019-02-20
The Principle Of Optimal Biodiversity: Why Nature Needs Diversity And How It Achieves It
Biodiversity conservation is a vital task for humanity as IPBES (1, see section 3.2, pp. 196) recently stated once again
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#1200352019-02-20
Iconic Australian national park "decimated" by invasive toads: expert
CANBERRA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Biodiversity in Australia's iconic Kakadu National Park has been "decimated" by invasive cane toads, a leading expert has warned.
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#1200372019-02-20
How to fight malaria
Combating the life-threatening disease by modifying mosquitoes could save lives
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#1200392019-02-20
UN Secretary-General appoints Inger Andersen of Denmark as Executive Director of the UN Environment
Following her nomination by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the General Assembly today elected Inger Andersen of Denmark to a four-year term as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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#1200402019-02-21
Fighting to save pangolins in Viet Nam
Nearly 200 rescued pangolins were released into the wild in Viet Nam in 2018 thanks, in part, to collaboration between UN Environment and the country’s biggest coffee shop chain, Highlands Coffee.
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#1200412019-02-21
Stopping fish bombing
Sabah, Malaysia: George Woodman’s first experience of fish bombing in Sabah—a Malaysian state in the northern part of the island of Borneo—was in 1994 during an underwater survey of the area’s renowned coral reefs.
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#1200422019-02-21
World's biggest bee found alive
The world's biggest bee has been re-discovered, after decades thought lost to science.
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#1200432019-02-21
‘No Way to Defend Ourselves Against the Onslaught of Climate Change’
PARAMARIBO, Feb 21 2019 (IPS) - Two of the most prominent women in the Caribbean nation of Suriname are speaking out about developed countries that release large volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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#1200442019-02-21
Why do zebras have stripes? They make bad landing strips for flies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists are providing new evidence to answer the longstanding question about why zebras have stripes.
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#1200452019-02-21
Greta Thunberg tells EU: your climate targets need doubling
Swede, 16, says EU cannot just ‘wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge’
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#1200462019-02-21
Giant tortoise believed extinct for 100 years found in Galápagos
Adult female discovered 113 years after only other living Chelonoidis phantasticus was found
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#1200472019-02-21
A pest in paradise
On what should be a pristine tropical island, humans have introduced a destructive pest. Can scientists turn back the clock?
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#1200482019-02-21
Cleaning up Everest – the world's highest rubbish dump
Mount Everest has turned into a dumping ground as the growing numbers of climbers leave their trash behind on the mountain.
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#1200492019-02-21
Protecting small forests fails to protect bird biodiversity
Simply protecting small forests will not maintain the diversity of the birds they support over the long run, a Rutgers-led study says.
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#1200502019-02-21
If we get biodiversity right, ‘everything else will follow’
If we get biodiversity protection right, we will also address issues in food production, healthcare, the economy and climate change, one of the world’s leading conservationists told the National Biodiversity Conference today.
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#1200512019-02-21
Conservationists in Kenya urge restoration of biodiversity to boost Africa's green agenda
NAIROBI, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Many countries in Africa are unlikely to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and other environment commitments as planned if the current plunder of natural resources is not stopped, an environmentalist said on Thursday.
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#1200522019-02-21
Complete world map of tree diversity
Biodiversity is one of Earth's most precious resources. However, for most places in the world, scientists only have a tiny picture of what this diversity actually is.
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#1200532019-02-21
Climate change 'cause of most under-reported humanitarian crises'
Report says few headlines sparked by food crises that ravaged Madagascar, Ethiopia and Haiti
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#1200542019-02-21
Climate change: obsession with plastic pollution distracts attention from bigger environmental challenges
By now, most of us have heard that the use of plastics is a big issue for the environment.
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#1200552019-02-21
The 10 worst pests threatening Aussie species
New research by the Threatened Species Recovery Hub has shown that invasive or pest species are a problem for 1257 threatened species in Australia, or about four out of five species.
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#1200562019-02-21
Why does the UN focus on climate-related security risks?
The climate crisis as a multifaceted threat to human security
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#1200572019-02-21
Namibia: Schroeder On NP Compliance Committee
Kauna Schroeder, the principal project coordinator and the advisor to the environmental commissioner has been nominated to the compliance committee of the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing on biodiversity.
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#1200582019-02-21
A Holiday With Teeth: How You Can Help Sharks While On Vacation
When you go to the Grand Isle Resort and Spa in the Bahamas, you don’t normally see “shark tagging” as an excursion option of at a four-star luxury resort.
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#1200592019-02-21
Surfing a wave of change: Clean Seas campaign celebrates two years of action
The remote Galápagos islands offer a distressing reminder of the destructive power of our plastic addiction with horrifying images of iconic species struggling on rubbish-strewn shorelines that were for so long a byword for isolation and purity.
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#1200602019-02-22
UN: Growing threat to food from decline in biodiversity
The plants, animals, and micro-organisms that are the bedrock of food production are in decline, according to a UN study.
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#1200612019-02-22
Botswana mulls lifting elephant hunting ban
A report by cabinet ministers in Botswana has recommended lifting a four-year hunting ban and the introduction of elephant culling.
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#1200622019-02-22
Research into chimp health benefits human, ecosystem well-being too
Chimpanzees’ health is not just an issue of concern for conservationists or animal rights activists.
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#1200632019-02-22
School curriculum fails to reflect the urgency of the climate crisis
Informed students are prompting adults to act on the issue
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#1200642019-02-22
We’ve had an apocalyptic warning: now will we care about biodiversity?
A UN report on shrinking species turns the focus away from bumblebees and on to us. It’s time for humanity to take notice
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#1200652019-02-22
Women custodians of biodiversity hold key to food security
A UN report on the state of world biodiversity for food and agriculture links rising food insecurity and chronic hunger to threatened habitats and ecosystems. But traditional female stewards of biodiversity offer hope.
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#1200672019-02-22
Endangered armadillos are being turned into carnival rattle
Researchers worry that Andean hairy armadillos, poached in Bolivia and largely ignored by conservationists, may be headed toward extinction.
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#1200682019-02-22
Naturalists concerned for early-emerging spring species in UK
A cold, wet March could prove problematic for animals now out of hibernation
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#1200692019-02-22
Conservation in a heating world
AS HOMO SAPIENS settles, criss-crosses and harvests ever larger swathes of the Earth, other species are being squeezed.
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#1200702019-02-22
Invasive termite species wreaks havoc in Tenerife
The insect, which thrives on the Canary Island’s high temperatures has spread to three municipalities, including San Cristóbal de La Laguna, which is a World Heritage Site
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#1200712019-02-22
Hope is not a biodiversity strategy
The public is being encouraged to have its say on a new Biodiversity Strategy - hoped to be more effective than the previous one - and an accompanying policy to provide the "teeth" needed to help threatened species.
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#1200722019-02-22
Why aren't we using nature to fight climate change?
Forests, mangroves, and wetlands are sometimes seen as the easy option for sequestering carbon—yet using nature to tackle climate change can be surprisingly controversial.
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#1200732019-02-22
Indonesians clean up the beach one sandal at a time
Hundreds of people sifted through a vast wasteland of rubbish strewn across a beach in Indonesia on Thursday, underscoring the Southeast Asian archipelago's mammoth marine waste problem
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#1200742019-02-22
Scientists complete first UK-wide assessment of changes in plankton community
Scientists have completed the first ever assessment of how plankton communities are changing in coastal waters and shelf seas around the UK.
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#1200752019-02-25
Biodiversity declines threaten world food production, warns United Nations
A drop in global biodiversity is putting our ability to produce food at risk, a new United Nations report warns. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, biodiversity in food and agriculture “is indispensable to food security and sustainable development.”
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#1200762019-02-25
Business and biodiversity
At the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos last month, the evidence of mounting threats to nature, and of nature’s contributions to people, featured higher on the agenda than ever before. The task for business leaders around the world is to embrace this evidence and start acting ...
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#1200772019-02-25
World Bank urges protection of Africa’s biodiversity
The World Bank Group, at the weekend, canvassed the protection of Africa’s biodiversity. It said the continent is home to a rich and diverse animal, plant, and marine biodiversity that provide critical ecosystem services, driving its economy and serving as buffers to climate change.
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#1200782019-02-25
'Terrifying’: There’s a rapid loss of biodiversity that’s placing global food supplies at risk of ‘irreversible collapse’
A groundbreaking report by the United Nations highlighting the rapid, widespread loss of many of the world’s plant and animal species should be on the front page of every newspaper in the world, argued climate action and food access advocates on Friday.
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#1200792019-02-25
A huge land grab is threatening India’s tribal people. They need global help
About 8 million indigenous people in India are in danger of being evicted from forests that their ancestors have lived in for millennia. This grave injustice follows a shocking supreme court ruling that rides roughshod over the rights of India’s indigenous people, known as Adivasi, or tribals.
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#1200802019-02-25
The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn
Escaping predators, digestion and other animal activities—including those of humans—require oxygen. But that essential ingredient is no longer so easy for marine life to obtain, several new studies reveal.
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#1200812019-02-25
Mongooses enjoy lifelong benefits of 'silver spoon effect'
The benefits of the 'silver spoon effect' in mongoose pups extend across their lifetime, a new study has shown.Banded mongooses live in social groups where pups are consistently cared for one-to-one by a single adult known as an "escort" – not their mother or father.
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#1200822019-02-25
Honeybees' waggle dance no longer useful in some cultivated landscapes
For bees and other social insects, being able to exchange information is vital for the success of their colony. One way honeybees do this is through their waggle dance, which is a unique pattern of behavior, which probably evolved more than 20 million years ago.
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#1200832019-02-25
Climate change is central to geography lessons
It is right that the analysis of how our climate has changed is properly rooted in documented science. Similar rigour should be applied to whether, and how, this issue is included in the curriculum. The claim that climate change is a “peripheral subtopic” in geography is simply not supported by ...