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#1340392022-04-13
Climate Change Will Reshuffle Marine Ecosystems in Unexpected Ways – “Like Putting Marine Biodiversity in a Blender”
Warming of the oceans due to climate change will mean fewer productive fish species to catch in the future, according to a new Rutgers study that found as temperatures warm, predator-prey interactions will prevent species from keeping up with the conditions where they could thrive.
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#1340402022-04-13
Bringing public health to forefront
The importance of forging robust linkages to ensure the health of people and the planet was highlighted in a recent statement by Executive Director of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) Dr Theresa Mundita S Lim.
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#1340422022-04-13
Migratory shrimp contribute significantly to the nutrient quality of streams and oceans
A collaborative study published in Oecologia and led by Hiromi Uno of Hokkaido University and Kyoto University found that migratory shrimp contribute significantly to the nutrient quality of streams as well as the oceans into which they flow.
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#1340432022-04-13
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the world’s biggest problem: ‘If we don’t address climate change, we really will be toast’
Since leaving Google, Eric Schmidt has focused his energy on tackling big global problems — and none, he says, are as pressing as climate change.
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#1340442022-04-13
Climate pledges could limit warming to 2C. What’s needed is action, study says
The world still has a fighting chance to keep temperatures below 2° Celsius over pre-industrial levels, if all countries meet their commitments to curb global warming, scientists say.
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#1340462022-04-13
How Did Climate Change Affect Ancient Humans?
Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors had an intimate relationship with their environment, which helped shape where and how they lived. But when the climate changed— when the river ran dry or local grasslands and herds dwindled—how did ancient humans respond? Bones, stone tools and ot ...
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#1340472022-04-13
Groundwater level threatens to fall in Germany due to climate change
Climate change directly affects groundwater resources. Groundwater levels in Germany threaten to fall in the next decades. This is the result of a study made by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR). It is now published in N ...
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#1340482022-04-13
We must use Cop27 to transform energy and food systems
“Rapid, deep and immediate” emissions reductions across all sectors: the third part of the IPCC report, released this month, leaves no room for speculation as to what must be done.
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#1340492022-04-13
Turkey’s forest losses spike in 2021, a year of country's worst fires
Forest fires, exacerbated by the fallout from climate change, threaten Turkey’s evergreen land. The country saw 226,845 hectares of forests damaged or completely burned between 2012 and 2021, with more than 61% of this loss taking place in 2021 alone.
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#1340502022-04-13
Forest coverage along upper reaches of Yellow River increases in decade
The forest coverage rate in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Haidong City, Qinghai Province, has increased to 36 percent in 2021 from 28 percent in 2020 since Haidong implemented an ecological conservation strategy a decade ago.
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#1340512022-04-13
Wildlife trafficking thrives on Facebook despite pledge to fight illegal trade
Facebook remains a thriving marketplace for online wildlife trafficking despite the tech giant’s pledge to help combat the illegal trade, according to a new investigation.
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#1340522022-04-13
South Africa floods: deadliest storm on record kills over 250 people
Devastating floods have killed 259 people in the South African city of Durban and surrounding areas, a senior government official said on Wednesday, after hillsides were washed away, homes collapsed and more people were still feared missing.
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#1340532022-04-13
Bear famous for Italian bakery break-in reappears after attempt to rewild him
An errant bear has reappeared in his favourite Italian town after a failed attempt to rewild him. The two-year-old Marsican brown bear, affectionately known as Juan Carrito, walked 150km “home” to Roccaraso, a small mountain town in the Abruzzo region, bypassing several other towns along the way.
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#1340542022-04-13
New study and interactive map point to environmental justice disparities (and solutions) in land conservation
A new study in Environmental Research Letters shows striking disparities in the distribution of conserved land across multiple dimensions of social marginalization in New England—and creates a tool to help address them.
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#1340552022-04-13
Consumers should cut new clothes purchases by 75% to make wardrobes sustainable
If things don't change fast, the fashion industry could use a quarter of the world's remaining global carbon budget to keep warming under 2℃ by 2050, and use 35% more land to produce fibres by 2030.
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#1340562022-04-13
Thawing permafrost driven by a hidden world of changes beneath the surface as the climate warms
Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square miles in size, have disappeared in the span of a few days. Hillsides slump. Ice-rich ground collapses, leaving the landscape wavy where it once was flat, and in some locations creating vast fields of ...
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#1340572022-04-13
Discovery of wheat's clustered chemical defenses creates new avenues for research
A research collaboration has helped to explain the chemical defenses that protect wheat plants against disease—opening potential new avenues of study in this globally cultivated crop.
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#1340582022-04-13
Mutations across animal kingdom shed new light on aging
The first study to compare the accumulation of mutations across many animal species has shed new light on decades-old questions about the role of these genetic changes in aging and cancer.
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#1340592022-04-13
Launch of condors on tribal land marks the species' comeback, but a new threat looms large
A plan to return federally endangered California condors to a rugged and remote stretch of Northern California coastline and redwood forests is taking shape on Yurok tribal lands where the Klamath River meets the Pacific Ocean.
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#1340602022-04-13
Lost golden toad heralds climate's massive extinction threat
Those lucky enough to have seen them will never forget. For just a few days every year, the elfin cloud forest of Costa Rica came alive with crowds of golden toads the length of a child's thumb, emerging from the undergrowth to mate at rain-swelled pools.
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#1340612022-04-13
Beyond the honeybee: How many bee species does a meadow need?
A meadow's lush array of flowers needs a full phalanx of bees to pollinate them—far more than just the honeybees and bumblebees that most people are familiar with, according to a new study by a team of researchers including University of Maryland entomologist Michael Roswell.
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#1340622022-04-13
Researchers detect the world's first wild river otter coronavirus case
Researchers at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University (CEU UCH) in Valencia, the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia (CSIC) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona have detected the first case of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in a European river otter in Spain.
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#1340632022-04-13
Extreme genetic drift in the Maniq hunter-gatherers of southern Thailand
Residing in the hills of southern Thailand, the Maniq comprise one of the last hunter-gatherer communities in the world. Although the Maniq are geographically isolated, they share many cultural features with the Semang peoples, most of whom live over the border in Malaysia.
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#1340642022-04-13
Endangered pangolins get fresh chance in S.African clinic
The hospital room is air-cooled to feel like a pangolin's burrow. The patient, Lumbi, is syringe-fed with a protein-packed smoothie, given a daily dose of medicine and has his vital signs checked.
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#1340652022-04-13
Climate change affects landscape freeze-thaw but not in the same way everywhere, study shows
As any resident of northern climates knows, a seasonal thaw is never straightforward. The freeze-thaw process can last over a period of months and historically was mitigated by predictable air temperature and snow cover depth.
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#1340662022-04-13
Mi'kmaw man leading Lennox Island to greener future with traditional knowledge
When Drew Bernard returned to Lennox Island three years ago, he found there wasn't a lot of work done in the community about energy.
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#1340672022-04-13
Our food system isn't ready for the climate crisis
The climate breakdown is already threatening many of our favorite foods. In Asia, rice fields are being flooded with saltwater; cyclones have wiped out vanilla crops in Madagascar; in Central America higher temperatures ripen coffee too quickly; drought in sub–Saharan Africa is withering chickpe ...
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#1340242022-04-12
Why the UN’s latest stand on the right to a healthy environment is monumental
'Recognizing this human right as universal is one thing; enforcing the needed laws and policies to protect it is another' “The highest human right is the right to life.”
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#1340222022-04-12
Why the UN’s latest stand on the right to a healthy environment is monumental
'Recognizing this human right as universal is one thing; enforcing the needed laws and policies to protect it is another' “The highest human right is the right to life.”
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#1339922022-04-12
Chile announces unprecedented plan to ration water as drought enters 13th year
As a punishing, record-breaking drought enters its 13th year, Chile has announced an unprecedented plan to ration water for the capital of Santiago, a city of nearly 6 million.
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#1339932022-04-12
Sunscreen chemicals accumulating in Mediterranean seagrass, finds study
Chemicals found in sunscreen lotions are accumulating in Mediterranean seagrass, a study has found.
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#1339942022-04-12
‘I was enjoying a life that was ruining the world’: can therapy treat climate anxiety?
Pete Knapp, 36, who lives in London, has visited North Korea, travelled overland from Kenya to Cape Town, motorcycled through Japan and Cambodia and trekked by horse through China. Until a few years ago, “I felt invincible,” he says. He had never experienced anxiety, or worried about the climate ...
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#1339952022-04-12
An ocean of noise: how sonic pollution is hurting marine life
We were whaling with cameras, joining a flotilla of a dozen other tourist boats from harbours all around the Salish Sea. It was one of my first trips to the area, in August 2001.
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#1339962022-04-12
Summer migratory bird species arrive in Nepal to lay eggs
According to an expert, several bird species migrate to Nepal every summer as the country has favourable climatic conditions and good environment for raising fledglings.
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#1339972022-04-12
Bird paradise of Iran in favorable condition
Located in the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, Kani Barazan, was once recorded as the first bird-sighting site in the country and birdwatchers call it Iran’s bird paradise.
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#1339982022-04-12
Palau adamant youth get a seat at the table in Our Ocean conference
Palau's Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment Steven Victor says it is significant for Palau to be the first small island developing state to host a large event like Our Ocean.
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#1339992022-04-12
Global biodiversity is in crisis, but how bad is it? It’s complicated
Biodiversity. When you hear this word, what do you picture? Iconic animals like African elephants, gray wolves and humpback whales? Or multicolored coral species that make up a reef system? Or bacteria and microbes that regulate nutrients in the soil, or oxygen-releasing phytoplankton that live ...
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#1340002022-04-12
In Gabon, a community’s plea against logging paves the way for a new reserve
Gabon’s environment minister has announced an immediate end to the logging of the Massaha ancestral forest in the country’s northeast, setting his administration a two-month deadline to finalize technical questions for permanent protection of the site.
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#1340012022-04-12
Saint Helena - A Bastion of Biodiversity
The small island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic is home to unique fauna and flora. Many of the more than 400 species living here are found nowhere else in the world.
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#1340022022-04-12
Nature does not care
I worry, sometimes, that knowledge is falling out of fashion – that in the field in which I work, nature writing, the multitudinous nonfictions of the more-than-human world, facts have been devalued; knowing stuff is no longer enough.
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#1340032022-04-12
How climate change stresses plants and alters their growth
Plants that inhabit the Earth have the incredible ability to grow continually for hundreds of years, and always towards the light of the sun, which provides them with the necessary energy to sprout.
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#1340042022-04-12
‘Too many people, not enough food’ isn’t the cause of hunger and food insecurity
Nearly one in three people in the world did not have access to enough food in 2020. That’s an increase of almost 320 million people in one year and it’s expected to get worse with rising food prices and the war trapping wheat, barley and corn in Ukraine and Russia.
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#1340052022-04-12
Scientists use 3D printing to help save embattled coral reefs
The ocean covers most of the planet’s surface and is home to countless marine species. Ensuring the survival of marine life, whether microscopic bacteria or blue whales, is essential to maintaining a balanced ecosystem.
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#1340062022-04-12
Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill 2021 misses the target despite good intentions
The Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill, 2021 introduces a regulatory framework for ‘invasive alien species’ in the Indian environmental legislative regime. However, despite being a well-intended step, the scope of the provision remains narrow and inadequate for managing the menace of invasive sp ...
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#1340072022-04-12
Southern Africa storms fuelled by climate change - study
Climate change fuelled heavier rainfall during a series of storms that battered southern Africa earlier this year, scientists say. Analysis from the World Weather Attribution group also showed that such extreme rainfall was more common now.
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#1340082022-04-12
Climate change cripples Iraqi farmers’ crops
Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was "as lucrative as oil", Qasim Abdul Wahad remembers, and his one-hectare farm plot in the governate of Basra produced enough to feed his family of eight.
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#1340092022-04-12
Aerosol Pollution: Destabilizing Earth’s Climate and a Threat to Health
Aerosols are fine particulates that float in the atmosphere. Many are natural, but those haven’t increased or decreased much over the centuries. But human-caused aerosols — emitted from smokestacks, car exhausts, wildfires, and even clothes dryers — have increased rapidly, largely in step with g ...
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#1340102022-04-12
Where the Ice Is Still Abundant, These Penguins Are, Too
Adélie penguins have had a rough time of it on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, where warming linked to climate change has occurred faster than almost anywhere else on the planet. That and other factors have led to sharp declines in Adélie populations in recent decades.
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#1340112022-04-12
Climate change is killing off soil organisms critical for some of Earth’s ecosystems
Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the “skin” covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This “biocrust,” made up of fungi, lichens, mosses, blue-green algae, and other microbes, retains water and produces nutrients that other organisms can use. Now, new research shows cli ...
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#1340122022-04-12
Sharks lose their natural response with prey if not frequently rewarded
New research studying the behavior of Port Jackson sharks has captured their astute ability to realize when the smell of natural prey doesn't lead to a feeding opportunity.