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#1308982021-10-16
‘Path to recovery’: Part one of COP15 closes with hopes high for new global biodiversity accord
The first phase of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China closed today (15 October) with the UN expressing confidence the week long talks had helped set the stage for the adoption of a new international treaty next year to ramp up global biodiversity protection.
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#1316172021-11-11
‘Our children may not want to be farmers’: living on the frontline of global heating
I have farmed all of my life. Since I was seven years old I’ve helped on my family’s farm, growing oranges. Farming itself is not hard, but the issues that I am facing are ones that I cannot manage, and which are unpredictable and uncontrollable.
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#1324772022-01-13
‘Oppressive and wrong’: green activists urge Labour to vote against policing bill
Climate activist groups are urging the Labour party to oppose a policing bill they say will undermine the right to protest at a critical moment in the fight to avoid climate breakdown.
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#1323602022-01-07
‘Only the rains will stop it’: Bolivia forest fires hit protected areas
Forest fires in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department razed an area twice the size of Jamaica in the first 10 months of 2021, officials said, with more than half of the affected land falling inside protected areas.
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#1277262021-03-16
‘One of the Best Inventions Ever': Israeli Startup Solves 170-year-old Problem
Eliyah Radzyner, 36, has been fascinated by bees for a long time. He began raising them in his backyard while studying at the Hebrew University’s Agriculture Faculty, and afterward he worked at an apiary in northern Israel. His day would begin at 4 A.M. “Beekeepers need to take advantage of all ...
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#1290012021-06-02
‘One With Nature’ webinar on Friday to discuss role of children in tackling climate change
TEDxPune, an independent organization with a license from TED, in association with UNICEF Maharashtra, a worldwide humanitarian aid organization, will be hosting a webinar titled ‘One With Nature’ this Friday June 4, 2021.
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#1330282022-02-08
‘Oil spills of our time’: experts sound alarm about plastic lost in cargo ship disasters
Container ship accidents at sea should be considered the “oil spills of our time”, warned environmental organisations that found a toxic mix of metals, carcinogenic and other harmful chemicals on plastic washed up on Sri Lanka’s beaches after a cargo ship fire.
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#1281162021-04-21
‘Ocean in crisis’: Global plan to protect world’s seas
A new global marine initiative has been launched to protect and conserve 18 million square kilometres of the ocean (seven million square miles) over the next five years, an area larger than the continent of South America.
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#1327112022-01-25
‘Nurdles are everywhere’: how plastic pellets ravaged a Sri Lankan paradise
When Adnan Sheikh took his family on holiday to Sri Lanka last October, he booked them into a hotel for two weeks in Sarakkuwa beach, just off the coast from where the X-Press Pearl cargo ship caught fire and sank five months previously.
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#1324992022-01-14
‘Nothing but fish nests’: huge icefish colony found in Antarctic sea
Researchers exploring Antarctica’s seabed have discovered a thriving, unprecedented colony of icefish “about a third of the size of London”.
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#1312992021-10-29
‘Not trying to mislead’: airlines chief defends industry’s net zero pledge
For the airline industry it was as “momentous decision”; for environment campaigners it was “essentially meaningless”. Earlier this month, the global airline trade body Iata passed a resolution, approved by almost 300 of the world’s biggest carriers, to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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#1324892022-01-14
‘Not enough water’: Cambodia’s farmers face changing climate
During Cambodia’s monsoon season, rice farmer Sam Vongsay’s backyard fills with water and the plastic trash of his houseboat-dwelling neighbours as the Tonle Sap lake grows with floodwaters from the Mekong River.
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#1220722019-08-30
‘Not a pretty picture’: South China’s forests vanish as tree farms move in
Forests in South China have been increasingly replaced by monoculture ecalyptus plantations grown for wood fiber for the pulp and paper industry. Even forests under official protection haven’t been spared.
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#1296362021-07-23
‘No sport can escape’: Tackling climate change at the Tokyo Olympics
No sport can escape the impacts of a changing climate. Less snow and ice, higher temperatures, and extreme weather events such as storms and heatwaves, all affect competitors and spectators alike.
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#1315362021-11-08
‘No one knew they existed’: wild heirs of lost British honeybee found at Blenheim
Thousands of rare forest honeybees that appear to be the last wild descendants of Britain’s native honeybee population have been discovered in the ancient woodlands of Blenheim Palace.
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#1238202020-01-20
‘No fish’: How dams and climate change are choking Asia’s great lake
For more than half a century, January meant prime fishing season for Pang Bin. He took his wooden boat out into Cambodia’s largest lake, his catches and their sales sustaining his family for much of the year.
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#1237032020-01-14
‘No doubt whatsoever’: Experts claim climate change causing Australia to burn
There is “no doubt” that climate change is increasing the risk of wild fires around the world, researchers said on Tuesday, as Australia’s government faces criticism for denying devastating bush fires are definitively linked to global warming.
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#1280762021-04-20
‘No action on anything’: Australia increasingly isolated as US and others ramp up climate ambition
Australia will not be able to “fly under the radar” when it comes to the climate crisis with the US and other major countries preparing to make new pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions over the next 10 years, experts say.
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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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#1239752020-01-28
‘New’ wasp species found during expedition to Amsterdam park
The Vondelpark in Amsterdam is home to a hitherto undiscovered species of wasp, which has now been named after it, the Parool reported this week.
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#1268092021-02-02
‘Nature is our home’: New UK report urges big economic rethink
Nations will have to rethink economic growth as a measure of success if they want to make good on pledges to halt the destruction of the natural world, according to a British government-backed report published on Tuesday.
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#1339562022-04-06
‘Nature has priority’: Rewilding map showcases nature-led restoration
In the past decade, the European bison (Bison bonasus) has made a comeback in Central and Eastern Europe. Hunters had killed the last known bison in the region nearly a century ago. But thanks to reintroduction programs in Belarus, Poland, Russia and Romania, nearly four times as many bison are ...
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#1262132020-12-14
‘Moving a giraffe is a delicate process’: rising waters threaten Kenya's wildlife
Marooned giraffes, fleeing flamingoes and stranded impalas: in recent years the rising water levels in east Africa’s Rift Valley lakes have become the norm, displacing people, threatening wildlife and submerging schools and hotels.
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#1297522021-07-28
‘Mangrove forest cover has increased in past 16 years’
As a result of joint efforts of government departments, non-profit organisations and corporations, mangrove forest cover in the Indus Delta has increased from 86,000 hectares in 2005 to over 130,000 hectares in 2021.
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#1292042021-06-10
‘Listening to communities must go beyond ticking compliance boxes’, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader
The Malaysian state of Sarawak was until recently home to some of the last truly nomadic peoples of Borneo, who roamed its wild and rich rainforests as they had done since time immemorial.
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#1326692022-01-20
‘Like witnessing a birth in a morgue’: the volunteers working to save the Joshua trees
The trees are not exactly imposing. Slim and spiny, with limbs that grip small poms of sharp leaves, they look like something a child might dream up. Or maybe Salvador Dalí. Even the name, Joshua tree, sounds kind of awkward.
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#1278042021-03-23
‘Like losing half the territory.’ Waorani struggle with loss of elder, and of land to oil (commentary)
Indigenous elders play a key role in the protection of their culture and livelihoods. A death of an elder threatens global conservation efforts since Indigenous livelihoods and knowledge represent key elements to understand and fight environmental degradation.
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#1232062019-12-02
‘Let the forests grow’: protecting old trees key in EU’s fight against climate change
The European Union (EU) has a unique chance to effectively abate the dire consequences of the looming climate emergency on future generations — and to do so it needs to address the problems in its own backyard, a leading climate scientist said on Monday.
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#1186052018-10-19
‘Largest living thing,’ an 80,000-year-old Utah forest, is dying, scientists warn
An ancient forest in Utah considered to be the largest single living thing in the world is dying, according to scientists. The Pando aspen, a gigantic expanse of 40,000 trees that are are all clones with identical compositions, has long been known as the “trembling giant” and covers over 106 acr ...
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#1259012020-11-27
‘Large-scale human rights violations’ taint Congo national park project
Josi Emerson, president of the Baka pygmy village of She in the Congolese rainforest, was working in his field in June 2018 when he heard vehicles and shouts. Forest rangers, known as ecoguards, dressed in paramilitary uniforms and carrying guns, had arrived in Jeeps.
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#1237162020-01-15
‘Land of Cats’ a biodiversity powerhouse – for now
Just last month leopards were declared extinct in Laos. They have disappeared from Vietnam and are likely to go extinct in Cambodia. Tigers also have vanished from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. Other cat species are not faring much better, falling victim to poachers’ snares and developers’ roads, ...
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#1301342021-08-24
‘Kill it!’ US officials advise no mercy for lanternfly summer invasion
The official public guidance is simple and to the point: “Kill it! Squash it, smash it … just get rid of it!” Such is the threat posed by a summer invasion of troublesome spotted lanternfly insects in the north-east that Pennsylvania’s department of agriculture has resorted to the unorthodox lan ...
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#1296242021-07-22
‘I’ve seen 40 on one dive’: invasive lionfish threatens ecosystems in Med
Non-native lionfish have become increasingly common in parts of the Mediterranean in recent years, threatening local ecosystems and posing a hazard to humans through their venomous spines.
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#1325882022-01-18
‘It’s mind-boggling’: the hidden cost of our obsession with fish oil pills
Scanning the shelves and internet for fish oil is a dizzying task. There are dozens of brands available and, although the typical consideration for the popular supplement is that quality matters most, it is not the only factor.
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#1316742021-11-15
‘It’s like hunting aliens’: inside the town besieged by armadillos
Thanks to climate change, armadillos, native to southern America, are making their way up north. And there’s no sign of them stopping their relentless march
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#1328372022-02-01
‘It’s like another world’: Project to unlock secrets of ocean’s deepest trenches
The deep blue covers 70 per cent of the earth and has been a source of intrigue for centuries, swallowing ships and submarines and setting the stage for tales of mythical sea monsters or hidden cities.
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#1339352022-04-06
‘It’s a thorny issue.’ Why a fight over DNA data imperils a global conservation pact
For conservation biologists, the highest item on the global agenda this year is persuading the world’s nations to agree on new targets for saving nature. National leaders are scheduled to meet in China later this year to finalize a new strategic plan for the Convention on Biological Diversity (C ...
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#1344352022-05-13
‘It’s a struggle for survival’: why Kenya – and its wildlife – need tourists to return
Covid dealt a blow to tourism and the conservation funds it provides. But as visitors slowly return, the sector is looking for new ways to thrive
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#1333802022-02-21
‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo
A trio of bison has gathered around a fourth animal’s carcass, and Jimmy Doyle is worried. “I really hope we’re not on the brink of some disease outbreak,” said Doyle, who manages the Wolakota Buffalo Range here in a remote corner of south-western South Dakota in one of the country’s poorest cou ...
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#1274882021-03-03
‘It's radical’: the Ugandan city built on solar, shea butter and people power
The village of Okere Mom-Kok was in ruins by the end of more than a decade of war in northern Uganda.Now, just outside Ojok Okello’s living-room door, final-year pupils at the early childhood centre are noisily breaking for recess and a market is clattering into life, as is the local craft brewe ...
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#1272382021-02-22
‘It's in our DNA’: tiny Costa Rica wants the world to take giant climate step
When it comes to the environment, few countries rival Costa Rica in terms of action and ambition. The tiny Central American nation is aiming for total decarbonisation by 2050, not just a “net zero” target. It has regrown large areas of tropical rainforest after suffering some of the highest rate ...
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#1217532019-07-31
‘It won’t be long’: why a Honduran community will soon be under water
Rising sea levels are destroying coastal towns in Honduras – and shrimp farms which export to the UK and US are making it worse
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#1291632021-06-08
‘It was sad having to leave’: Climate crisis splits Alaskan town in half
Two years ago, Lisa Charles and her family moved from their lifelong home in the town of Newtok, Alaska, to Mertarvik, a 30-minute trip by boat or snow machine depending on the season.
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#1355232022-08-04
‘It sustains us all’: IPBES report calls for accounting of nature’s diverse values
A focus on valuing nature through the lens of the market has contributed to the global biodiversity crisis, according to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
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#1346782022-05-25
‘It seems this heat will take our lives’: Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C
Muhammad Akbar, 40, sells dried chickpeas on a wheelbarrow in Jacobabad, and has suffered heatstroke three times in his life. But now, he says, the heat is getting worse. “In those days there were many trees in the whole city and there was no shortage of water and we had other facilities so we c ...
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#1327442022-01-25
‘It looked so real’: ghostly ‘iceberg’ was a wonder of nature – just not an iceberg
Clear winter skies and the promise of a recent evening’s beautiful sunset led photographer Simone Engels to a nearby park on Vancouver Island. But as she trained her lens on the pinkish hue of the landscape of the Pacific coast, she was shocked to see a large, iceberg-like shape on the horizon.
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#1205192019-03-26
‘It devours everything’: the crab that hitched a ride to Spain
Voracious and almost without predators, the blue crab was first sighted in the Ebro Delta on Spain’s Mediterranean coast in 2012, and since then the population has expanded exponentially, wiping out native species and forcing the fishing industry to adapt and find new markets.
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#1344682022-05-13
‘Is it all worth it?’: farmers left heartbroken as Queensland floods ruin crops
A “gut-wrenching” clean up and recovery is under way across Queensland as the flood waters slowly subside from the second major rain event this year.
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#1219802019-08-21
‘Invisible’ crisis of water quality threatens human and environmental well-being: World Bank report
Deteriorating water quality worldwide is slashing the economic potential of heavily polluted areas, according to a new World Bank report, released on Tuesday.
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#1229752019-11-13
‘Insect apocalypse’ poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn
The “unnoticed insect apocalypse” should set alarm bells ringing, according to conservationists, who said that without a halt there will be profound consequences for humans and all life on Earth.