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#1201452019-02-28
You can’t take on climate change without tackling sprawl
Get rid of all the country’s coal plants, run the country purely on renewables, and we’ll still be left with the top source of greenhouse gas emissions: transportation.
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#1201462019-02-28
Like a boiling frog, humans quickly normalize extreme temperatures
Drop a frog into a boiling pot of water and it immediately hops out. But place it into cool water and slowly heat it, and the frog won’t catch on, eventually getting cooked. This metaphor is totally wrong about frogs, but it is true of humans tweeting about unusual weather.
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#1201472019-02-28
These elephant-sized knitted sweaters prove that there’s still more to do to stop climate change
Global warming is likely going to be the greatest reason for the extinction of the different species in this century. And since climate change is happening very quickly, many of our land and aquatic creatures live in areas that are severely affected by this, including elephants.
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#1201482019-02-28
Everglades in crisis: can this wetland avert an environmental tragedy?
Climate change and human development have pushed Florida to the brink. Now conservations are finding fresh hope in an unlikely form.
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#1201492019-02-28
Guterres underlines climate action urgency, as UN weather agency confirms record global warming
The long-term temperature trend is far more important than the ranking of individual years, and that trend is an upward one, said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas
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#1201502019-02-28
Moths, maggots and microbes: our 5,000 creepy-crawlie housemates – and the man who loves to hunt them
The good news is that I will never be home alone again. The bad news – well, it’s not in fact bad news, but it is slightly unsettling – is that I share my home with at least 5,000 other species: wasps, flies, spiders, silverfish and an exotic bunch of wild bacteria.
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#1201512019-02-28
2020 will be an ocean year: Reasons for hope
In the last decade, the level of buzz around the idea of a "blue economy" has been growing, so much so that, in just a few days, it will take centre stage at the World Ocean Summit in Abu Dhabi - and for good reason. A blue economy is underpinned by the idea that a sustainably managed, healthy o ...
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#1201522019-02-28
Taking the lead in Asean biodiversity conservation
How will you make sure that everyone—from policy-makers and business leaders to their employees, and even school children—are aware of and practice biodiversity conservation in their daily activities? This is the challenging mission of Dr. Theresa Mundita S. Lim, international wildlife expert a ...
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#1201532019-02-28
Polar bears: stars of biodiversity protection or geopolitical tool?
Since the release of a footage showing a starving polar bear on iceless land in December 2017, the animal has become the symbol of climate change. As a researcher with Poitiers University, Farid Benhammou is co-author with Rémy Marion of a book called Géopolitique de l’ours polaire - or the Geop ...
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#1201552019-02-28
Megadiverse Brazil: giving biodiversity an online boost
Brazil is at the top among the 18 megadiverse countries. It hosts between 15 and 20 per cent of the world’s biological diversity, with more than 120,000 species of invertebrates, about 9,000 vertebrates and more than 4,000 plant species. With this comes huge potential to boost economic growth an ...
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#1201562019-02-28
Rare grassland pastures resembling 'what the Prairies used to look like' declared important bird area
An exceedingly rare kind of grassland in Manitoba and Saskatchewan — and the endangered birds and plants that call it home — are getting a little symbolic protection.
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#1201572019-02-28
What spiders eating weird stuff tell us about complex Amazon food webs
Rudolf von May has seen some pretty wild things in Peru’s Amazon rainforest. But this took things to a whole new level. There, caught on a team member’s cell phone video, was a giant tarantula, about the size of a dinner plate, weeble-wobbling through the leaf litter with the body of what was la ...
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#1201582019-02-28
Study shows the impact of unplanned development on river basins and catchment areas
A novel approach by Indian scientists to assess the water and ecological footprints in Kali river basin in the Western Ghats of peninsular India has revealed declining native vegetation in the basin. This is affecting the region’s water sustainability.
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#1201592019-02-28
Fixing food systems in 80 steps: time for a Common Food Policy for the EU
As study after study documents the extent of the problems in our food systems – from climate change to biodiversity loss and fast-spreading NCDs – we may be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed by the challenges we face. That’s why the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES ...
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#1201602019-02-28
Indigenous hunters vital to robust food webs in Australia
Ecologists know that when we humans start tugging at the threads of a food web, the unraveling that results is often catastrophic to the connected species, paving the way for extinction and the invasion of exotic species.
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#1201622019-03-01
Good news for biodiversity enthusiasts: Olive Ridley turtles arrive at Odisha’s Gahirmatha beach
The mass nesting, a phenomenon known as arribada (a Spanish term), began Tuesday night. An estimated 92,053 female turtles were spotted digging pits with flippers to lay eggs.
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#1201632019-03-01
Youth climate strikers: 'We are going to change the fate of humanity'
The students striking from schools around the world to demand action on climate change have issued an uncompromising open letter stating: “We are going to change the fate of humanity, whether you like it or not.”
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#1201642019-03-01
How to stop an insect apocalypse
We might not love creepy-crawlies, but if insects were to vanish within a century, as some scientists predict, there would be dire consequences for us humans. Is it too late to save bees, bugs and butterflies?
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#1201652019-03-01
Sweating the small things
Matt Bonds was young and idealistic when, as a postdoc, he set out with economist Jeffrey Sachs, a rock star in the development world, in his quest to end poverty. But the Millennium Villages Project on which they worked—a package of interventions from seeds to schools to clinics designed to imp ...
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#1201662019-03-01
Living Product Challenge: Design for the Future
Sustainable design in the construction industry has become mainstream, and the use of green materials not only lowers the environmental impact over their entire lifetime, but also provides a normal level of comfort, durability and functionality for occupants. In business situations, this allows ...
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#1201672019-03-01
10 of our favourite green buildings in the world
Against the stark concrete skyline of Sydney, Australia, one building’s cascading green gardens unfurl like a vertical oasis. Completed in late 2013, One Central Park (pictured, above) won a suite of high-profile awards in 2014 (including Best Tall Building in the World) thanks to its clever fea ...
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#1201682019-03-01
These endangered bats are being killed by the thousands—here’s why
Mauritius, a Small island nation east of Madagascar, is known for its postcard-perfect beaches, warm hospitality, and cultural diversity. And it’s known for the dodo, the poster child for human-driven extinction. Mauritius has also lost more than 130 other lesser known plants and animals, from g ...
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#1201692019-03-01
Comprehensive Support For Twelve Protected Areas in Georgia
Georgia receives assistance to conserve and protect its unique biodiversity through a five year initiative supported from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
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#1201702019-03-01
Balloons the number one marine debris risk of mortality for seabirds
The data showed that a seabird ingesting a single piece of plastic had a 20 per cent chance of mortality, rising to 50 per cent for nine items and 100 per cent for 93 items.
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#1201712019-03-01
Tibetan plateau rose later than we thought
The Tibetan Plateau today is on average 4,500 meters above sea level. It is the biggest mountain-building zone on Earth. Most analyses to date indicated that, back in the Eocene period some 40 million years ago, the plateau was about as high as it is today.
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#1201722019-03-01
How can the seabed warn us about climate change?
Hidden in even the clearest waters of the ocean are clues to what’s happening to the seas and the climate on a global scale. Trace amounts of various chemical elements are found throughout the seas and can reveal what’s going on with the biological reactions and physical processes that take plac ...
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#1201732019-03-01
Climate crisis and a betrayed generation
We, the young, are deeply concerned about our future. Humanity is currently causing the sixth mass extinction of species and the global climate system is at the brink of a catastrophic crisis. Its devastating impacts are already felt by millions of people around the globe. Yet we are far from re ...
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#1201742019-03-01
Climate Change: Ice Free Summer likely in the Arctic in 20 years -
The Arctic Ocean could encounter summers free of ice in the following 20 years, which is a lot sooner than recently anticipated, except if greenhouse emissions are significantly reduced. -
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#1201752019-03-01
Scientists discover how surfaces may have helped early life on Earth begin
On early earth, a series of spontaneous events needed to happen in order for life as we know it to begin. One of those phenomena is the formation of compartments enclosed by lipid membranes. New research by Irep Gözen, Elif Koksal, and colleagues at the University of Oslo reveals, for the first ...
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#1201762019-03-01
Ducks offer researchers a unique opportunity to study human touch
If it walks like a duck (or a goose or a swan), it can find food in mud without seeing or smelling it. These waterfowl bills are covered in skin that's a lot like the sensitive skin on the palms of our hands, and it can feel food in mud and murky water. Slav Bagriantsev, Eve Schneider, and Evan ...
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#1201772019-03-01
Biodiversité. Le Message Politique Des Insectes Doit Résonner Plus Fort
Même un trentenaire peut facilement se rendre compte que beaucoup moins d’insectes s’écrasent sur son pare-brise, aujourd’hui, que sur celui de ses parents quand il était enfant. Alors qu’on les pensait si nombreux et si résistants qu’ils survivraient même à un conflit nucléaire mondial, c’est, ...
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#1201782019-03-01
Au Brésil : grandes incertitudes sur la protection de la forêt amazonienne
Le Brésil reste marqué culturellement par son passé colonial de conquête du territoire. L’expansion du front pionnier vers le nord et l’ouest s’est faite au détriment de la forêt. L’appropriation est, elle, passée par la conversion des écosystèmes forestiers en terres agricoles ou en pâturages. ...
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#1201792019-03-01
Plantation d'un milliard d'arbres, agriculture bio… 5 bonnes nouvelles pour la planète
Objectif atteint pour le "tsunami d'un milliard d'arbres" au Pakistan. Et ce n'est qu'une des 5 bonnes nouvelles pour la planète.
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#1201812019-03-01
New UN decade to combat the ‘era’ of climate change, with optimism
On 1 March, the United Nations declared 2021 to 2030 the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a landmark decision to accelerate efforts to bring degraded landscapes back to health worldwide. The declaration was made following a statement to the General Assembly from El Salvador’s Minister of Environ ...
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#1201822019-03-04
Sri Lanka to put its biodiversity in the spotlight at global trade summit
Sri Lanka hopes to use a top global biodiversity trade summit it’s hosting in May to shine a global spotlight on the island’s unique biodiversity.
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#1201832019-03-04
B.C. beekeepers suffering after grim year for colony die-offs
It was late September when commercial beekeeper Mike Munro was checking on his hives in Delta, and giving the bees some food. It was getting cool in the evenings, but the days were still warm and it was awhile before he would close up the hives for winter.
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#1201842019-03-04
Regenerative agriculture can make farmers stewards of the land again
For years, "sustainable" has been the buzzword in conversations about agriculture. If farmers and ranchers could slow or stop further damage to land and water, the thinking went, that was good enough. I thought that way too, until I started writing my new book, "One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s ...
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#1201852019-03-04
Biodiversity: Africa’s key to food security and sustainable livelihoods
Unfolding events all over the world are pointing in one direction; that is the imminence of climate change which may prove irreversible. The timing, magnitude of impacts and places where impacts would be felt might vary, but climate change has proven to be inescapable. Choices before nations and ...
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#1201862019-03-04
In Nigeria, hunters turn into guardians of the rarest gorilla on Earth
Former bushmeat hunter Jacob Osang says poverty and lack of options drove him to the trade. “There were no jobs, no opportunity anywhere,” Osang says. In 1985, after failing to find a job in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, Osang, then in his early 20s, returned to his village in southeastern Cros ...
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#1201872019-03-04
Europe’s forests threatened by biodiversity collapse, warn campaigners
A logging operation at Poland’s spectacular 55-mile-long Vistula lagoon is casting a “dark omen” of deforestation and biodiversity collapse across Europe’s forests, campaigners say.
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#1201882019-03-04
Some Great Barrier Reef coral suffering lasting effects from mass bleaching events
Coral reefs in the far north of the Great Barrier Reef are showing lasting effects from the mass bleaching of 2016 and 2017 and in some cases their health has declined further, according to fresh surveys by the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
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#1201892019-03-04
Can they save us? Meet the climate kids fighting to fix the planet
Despite being barely two years old, the Sunrise Movement has outpaced established environmental groups in the push to radically reshape the political landscape around climate change.
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#1201902019-03-04
‘Weather wars’ in times of climate change
In the summer, when heat waves scorch cities or heavy rains flood the coasts, some climate scientists and environmentalists will point out any plausible connections to global warming, hoping today’s weather will help people understand tomorrow’s danger from climate change.
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#1201912019-03-04
Climate change: the human factor
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is driving cutting-edge research to quantify the long-term effects of humans on global warming, aimed at not only reducing future risk but also enhancing on-the-ground responses to reduce the impact on populations of the global south.
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#1201922019-03-04
How do you bring a forest back to life?
Half a millennia ago, forests covered much of the Iberian peninsula. But that soon changed. Centuries of wars and invasions, agricultural expansion and woodcutting for charcoal and shipping wiped out most of the woods and transformed places like Matamorisca, a small village in northern Spain, in ...
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#1201932019-03-04
Alien species are primary cause of recent global extinctions: study
Alien species are the main driver of recent extinctions in both animals and plants, according to a new study by UCL researchers. They found that since 1500, alien species have been solely responsible for 126 extinctions, 13% of the total number studied.
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#1201942019-03-04
Biodiversity crisis: Technological advances in agriculture are not a sufficient response
Rapid population and economic growth are destroying biological diversity—especially in the tropics. This was reported by a research team led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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#1201972019-03-05
Forests can take decades to recover from fire
Wildfires and logging are sytematically ravaging the world's forests. While some loss makes way for regeneration, scientists warn that woodland takes a painfully long time to really recover.
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#1201982019-03-05
Sixth mass extinction could destroy life as we know it -- biodiversity expert
Alarming declines in the number of insects, vertebrates and plant species around the world have raised fears that we are in the midst of a sixth major extinction that could cause a collapse of the natural ecosystems we rely upon to survive.
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#1201992019-03-05
Deciphering the ancient mysteries of ‘marine snow’
Ocean-warming over the past century may be impacting one of the largest but least understood components in the global carbon cycle: massive deep-sea deposits of "marine snow". The term is used to describe organic matter and detritus falling to the ocean floor. The material functions as Earth’s l ...