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#1265502021-01-11
Warming and acidification form dual threat to corals
A quarter of the carbon emissions that are warming the Earth dissolve into oceans, making them more acidic. Carbon emissions and warming are also causing ocean heat waves, which in turn is bleaching the world's coral reefs.
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#1265532021-01-11
Ocean acidification may make some species glow brighter
A more acidic ocean could give some species a glow-up. As the pH of the ocean decreases as a result of climate change, some bioluminescent organisms might get brighter, while others see their lights dim, scientists report January 2 at the virtual annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and ...
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#1265552021-01-11
A forum to fight ocean plastic pollution
As the second Malta Sustainability Forum prepares to kick-start online later this month, Malta’s first-ever Ocean Ambassador Alan Deidun explains why fighting ocean plastic pollution should be at the top of humanity’s priorities list.
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#1265562021-01-11
Azerbaijan marks International Day of Reserves and National Parks
Since 1997, January 11 is celebrated worldwide as International Day of Reserves and National Parks at the initiative of the Biodiversity Conservation Center and the World Wildlife Fund. Environmental protection problems are always at the center of attention of the Azerbaijani government. The cou ...
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#1265612021-01-11
European Green Deal: Commission consults on EU targets to restore Europe's biodiversity
Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius said: “Human activities have significantly altered three quarters of the Earth's lands and two thirds of oceans in recent decades, destabilising our climate and our natural life support systems. Restoring natural ecosystems is ...
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#30462021-01-05
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2021-03-15
Review of the coordinates of the National Focal Points for the Global Taxonomy Initiative
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/JSH/VA/KM/89336 (2021-002)
To: CBD National Focal Points; Cartagena Protocol Focal Points; ABS Focal Points; SBSTTA Focal Points; GTI Focal Points; Consortium of Scientific Partners on Biodiversity; indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations
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#1265112020-12-30
Moths to monkeys: 503 new species identified by UK scientists
Scarab beetles from New Guinea, seaweed from the Falklands and a new species of monkey found on an extinct volcano in Myanmar are among 503 species newly identified by scientists at the Natural History Museum.
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#1265172020-12-30
COVID-19 hazard: 1.56 bn masks polluted oceans in 2020, claims study
These masks will take as long as 450 years to break down and all the while serve as a source of micro plastic and negatively impact marine wildlife and ecosystems, says a new report by OceanAsia
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#1265182020-12-30
Massive, Unrivalled Deep-Sea Project Just Discovered a Bunch of New Atlantic Species
It's taken nearly five years, 45 research expeditions, and more than 80 scientists and students, but the largest oceanic research enterprise, the ATLAS project, is officially complete.
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#1265272020-12-30
Scientists Eavesdrop on New Population of Blue Whales Singing in the Indian Ocean
Scientists have identified a previously unknown blue whale song, suggesting that a distinct population had long gone undetected. Back in 2017, researchers were recording the chatter of Omura’s whales off the coast of Madagascar when they picked up the powerful song of another species: the blue w ...
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#1265282020-12-30
Iceland's innovations to reach net-zero – in pictures
Isolated and challenged by a harsh climate and battered by the financial crisis of 2008, Iceland has successfully moved away from fossil fuels and shifted to 100% electricity production from renewable sources. The island nation has developed high-tech greenhouses to grow organic vegetables and e ...
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#1265302020-12-30
Fish sex organs boosted under high CO2
Research from the University of Adelaide has found that some species of fish will have higher reproductive capacity because of larger sex organs, under the more acidic oceans of the future.
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#1265022020-12-29
In 2020, scientists documented hundreds of new species. Here are a few.
t’s the year 2020, and scientists are still discovering new species of life on Earth. No one knows exactly how many types of life are yet undescribed in the scientific literature; estimates range from around 86 percent to as high as 99.99 percent. And even though we’re living through an age of g ...
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#1265072020-12-29
How Did Business’s Role in Society Change in 2020?
What are the 10 most important stories about the intersection of business and society in 2020? Covid-related issues top the list and include both ways companies innovated and the roadblocks that resulted in less progress on sustainable development. Other top stories are fossil fuels continuing o ...
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#1264762020-12-28
New population of blue whale found in the Indian Ocean, discovered by its unique sound
This is a 'great reminder that our oceans are still this very unexplored place,” said Asha de Vos, marine biologist not involved in the study but who studied blue whales in the Indian Ocean.
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#1264352020-12-23
Build forward better through nature in the post-pandemic era
The challenge is not ‘to build back better’ but ‘to build forward better’ where the nature and climate nexus lies within the development paradigm.
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#1264542020-12-23
Digital Transformation: The Key To Tackling Climate Change
The story of 2020 has unfolded in ways we would never have imagined, affecting almost every aspect of work and life. I believe that ten years from now, one positive thing the year will be remembered for is how the concept of Net Zero became a mainstream activity that reshaped the economy. The pi ...
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#1264562020-12-23
Plastic is Blowing in Wind
The discovery of microplastics in the air above the ocean reveals the spread of this hazardous pollution.As the plastic in our oceans breaks up into smaller and smaller bits without breaking down chemically, the resulting microplastics are becoming a serious ecological problem.
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#1264202020-12-22
A groggy climate giant: subsea permafrost is still waking up after 12,000 years
In the far north, the swelling Arctic Ocean inundated vast swaths of coastal tundra and steppe ecosystems. Though the ocean water was only a few degrees above freezing, it started to thaw the permafrost beneath it, exposing billions of tons of organic matter to microbial breakdown.
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#1264212020-12-22
Legacy beauty brands focus sustainability efforts on biodiversity
The beauty industry has made collective and individual efforts to become more sustainable in 2020, and one area that has received significant attention sits is biodiversity. Simply put, biodiversity is the variety of flora and fauna in a particular ecosystem. But in practice, biodiversity is the ...
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#1264282020-12-22
CRISPR helps researchers uncover how corals adjust to warming oceans
The CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system can help scientists understand, and possibly improve, how corals respond to the environmental stresses of climate change. New work details how the revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winning technology can be deployed to guide conservation efforts for fragile reef ec ...
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#1263682020-12-21
"One Yangtze" Sustainable Development Forum encourages communication between capital market and environmental protection field through ESG investing
Huatai Securities Co., Ltd. (601688.CH; 6886.HK; HTSC.LI; "Huatai Securities" or "The Company") sponsored the "One Yangtze" Sustainable Development Forum in Beijing, to encourage communication between the capital market and ecological environment protection field.
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#1263692020-12-21
Why Impact Asset Managment screens its portfolio for deforestation exposure
Julie Gorte is senior vice president for sustainable investing at Impax Asset Management LLC and Pax World Funds. She oversees environmental, social and governance-related research on prospective and current investments as well as the firm’s shareholder engagement and public policy advocacy.
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#1263712020-12-21
Ivory Coast creates first marine protected area
Ivory Coast has announced the creation of its first Marine Protected Area (MPA).The MPA will cover 2,600 km2 (1,000 square miles) of pristine ocean off the coast of Grand-Béréby, protecting marine biodiversity including threatened shark and turtle species.
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#1263732020-12-21
New tree-spider crab species with purple patches described from Kerala’s mangroves
In a serendipitous discovery, researchers have described a tiny, cryptic species of tree-spider crab found climbing the mangrove trees of Kasargod district in the southern state of Kerala.
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#1263982020-12-21
Cambodia's giant life-giving Tonle Sap lake in peril
As night falls over his floating village, fisherman Leng Vann puffs on a cigarette and heaves a sigh for Tonle Sap, the great inland lake that has sustained Cambodia for centuries.
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#1263392020-12-18
Putting nature first. The European Commission’s strategy for the Decade of Action
The year 2030 features prominently in any discussion about the biggest challenges facing the international community in the coming years. This is the deadline by which the 193 UN member states have committed to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that constitute a global action ...
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#1263492020-12-18
The Arctic’s Peculiar Ocean Turbulence Puzzled Scientists for Decades – Now MIT Has an Explanation
New study suggests waters will become more turbulent as Arctic loses summertime ice.Eddies are often seen as the weather of the ocean. Like large-scale circulations in the atmosphere, eddies swirl through the ocean as slow-moving sea cyclones, sweeping up nutrients and heat, and transporting the ...
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#1263502020-12-18
How will ocean anoxic zones interact with climate change?
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have investigated the dynamics of ecosystems in parts of the ocean that have no dissolved oxygen to sustain animals or plants, which are known as ocean anoxic zones. In these areas, only microbes that are adapted to the environment can survive.
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#1263512020-12-18
Beluga whistles and clicks could be silenced by an increasingly noisy Arctic Ocean
Under the sea ice, the Arctic Ocean is one of the quietest places on Earth. But it can be very noisy when the ice is forming and breaking up or during storms and when glaciers are calving.
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#1263132020-12-17
EU, Leonardo DiCaprio and Global Wildlife Conservation team-up to protect biodiversity
The European Union, environmentalist and Academy Award®-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC) have launched two initiatives worth €34 million to better protect the planet in 2021.
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#1263222020-12-17
From circularity to climate change: Sustainable fashion in 2020
A tumultuous year in retail saw both gains and losses for sustainability, but analysts say progress is lacking in key areas like climate change.
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#1263362020-12-17
The most consumed species of mussels contain microplastics all around the world
"If you eat mussels, you eat microplastics." This was already known to a limited extent about mussels from individual ocean regions. A new study by the University of Bayreuth, led by Prof. Dr. Christian Laforsch, reveals that this claim holds true globally. The Bayreuth team investigated the mic ...
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#1263372020-12-17
The new species discovered in 2020
Many would probably say that 2020 was a complete blowout — politically, socially, experientially, and unfortunately for many, health-wise. But in the world of science, it was an overall fantastic year. Hundreds of new species were discovered in 2020, adding to our planet's biodiversity and makin ...
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#1262802020-12-16
Bid to make 'ecocide' a crime gains new momentum
Climate change, oil spills, deforestation. The injuries caused to the natural world by states and companies threaten whole ecosystems and imperil the environment that sustains life itself. But are they crimes?
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#1262852020-12-16
Amazon must stop flooding our oceans with plastic waste
Just last month, Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, announced that he would be donating $791m to 16 environmental organisations to help combat the effects of climate change. The impressive donation is coming from a $10bn fund set up in February to address this critical issue. Amazon also ...
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#1262252020-12-14
Ocean heatwave has triggered new toxic algal blooms on the US west coast
Fishermen, swimmers and seafood enthusiasts may already know the dangers of "red tides," but a recent study in Frontiers in Climate shows that climate change is increasing the frequency of one type of highly toxic algal bloom off the US west coast.
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#1262302020-12-14
Tiny frog species among series of finds in Andean ‘sky islands’
An “ecological Swat team” has discovered 20 previously unknown species in the misty cloud forests and cascading waterfalls that flank Bolivia’s Zongo valley.
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#1261722020-12-11
New Report from World Wildlife Fund Explores Planet-Based Diets
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released a report detailing ways countries can improve human health and restore the environment through sustainable diets.
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#1261732020-12-11
International Mountain Day 2020: UN stresses need for sustainable management of biodiversity; all you need to know
On this day, people can organise an event among their friends and community to discuss and spread awareness about the conservation of mountains.
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#1261892020-12-11
Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals occur in 27-million-year cycle
Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals—including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds—follow a cycle of about 27 million years, coinciding with previously reported mass extinctions of ocean life, according to a new analysis published in the journal Historical Biology.
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#1262002020-12-11
Who are the most impactful young sustainability leaders in Asia Pacific?
The world is on the brink of an irreversible climate tipping-point, and young people understand this better than most. Today’s youth leaders are agitating for change across business and policy to bring about a brighter, safer and fairer future.
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#1261422020-12-10
Grazing, Irrigation and Climate Change: the Uncertain Future of the Deschutes River
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will soon decide whether to approve a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) for the Deschutes River Basin. The HCP was initiated by local irrigators and the city of Prineville who want to maintain their privilege of using the public’s water (all water in Oregon is ow ...
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#1261442020-12-10
The climate crisis should be at the heart of the global Covid recovery
In the early hours of 12 December, 2015, I stood together with world leaders to welcome the adoption of the Paris agreement on climate change. Years of negotiations and frustrating setbacks were capped by a two-minute round of applause for French foreign minister Laurent Fabius as he banged the ...
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#1261482020-12-10
Arctic Ocean: Climate Change Is Flooding the Remote North With Light and New Species
At just over 14 million square kilometres, the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world’s oceans. It is also the coldest. An expansive raft of sea ice floats near its centre, expanding in the long, cold, dark winter, and contracting in the summer, as the Sun climbs higher in the sky.
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#1261502020-12-10
Africa: Climate change and sustainable development must be a two-way street
Fossil resources have enabled a revolutionary wave of innovation in our societies since the start of the 20th century, but there are hidden costs in fossil resources to society.
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#1261662020-12-10
Tackling human rights abuses is critical to sustainable life at sea and on land
Traditionally, Human Rights Day has focused on international human rights abuses that take place on land: modern slavery, cruel and inhuman treatment and unfavourable conditions of employment, to name a few.
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#1261682020-12-10
Why Mediterranean food culture is as important as the Mediterranean diet for sustainability
They say you are what you eat, but in reality, your diet will have much more impact on what is likely to become of you in the future. Genetics account for less than 20 per cent of a healthy life expectancy, leaving factors like diet and lifestyle making up the remaining 80 per cent. Food choices ...
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#1261022020-12-09
Egypt initiative to integrate Rio conventions is imperative: Environment Minister
Egypt's Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad has highlighted the importance of the initiative set out by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to achieve integration between the three Rio conventions.
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#1261032020-12-09
Ocean Like No Other: Southern Ocean’s Rich Ecology, Significance for Global Climate
In 2018, a map named after an oceanographer went viral. The so-called Spilhaus projection, in which Earth is viewed from above the South Pole, was designed to show the connected nature of the ocean basins.