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#1203542019-03-13
Interview: UNEP official says China's role crucial to reshaping global environment agenda
China will be an influential player in future efforts to reshape the global environmental agenda thanks to its focused leadership coupled with enactment of policies that have reinvigorated green growth, a senior official at the UN Environment has said.
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#1203552019-03-13
Spring Statement: Chancellor unveils biodiversity plans and low-carbon homes requirements
Chancellor Philip Hammond has today (13 March) pledged to implement legislation requiring developers to deliver biodiversity net-gain through all projects in his 2019 Spring Statement, which also includes a review into the economic benefits of environmental conservation.
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#1203562019-03-13
Guns, snares and bulldozers: New map reveals hotspots for harm to wildlife
The biggest killers of wildlife globally are unsustainable hunting and harvesting, and the conversion of huge swathes of natural habitat into farms, housing estates, roads and other industrial activities. There is little doubt that these threats are driving the current mass extinction crisis.
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#1203572019-03-13
Italy’s first coral reef has been discovered
In an exciting scientific discovery, researchers in the Italian Adriatic coast have found the country’s very first coral reef and one which they believe may be unique to the entirety of Europe.
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#1203582019-03-13
Impact of climate change on nature, animals and people – a view
The glaciers are shrinking around the world – and at a rapid pace. The latest study of the international glacier-a team of researchers, under the leadership of the ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal research Institute for forest, snow and landscape is alarming.
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#1203592019-03-13
Israel moves pristine corals after restricted beach reopens
For 50 years an Israeli oil company kept bathers and scuba divers away from a prime strip of beach in the Red Sea resort of Eilat. But it couldn’t stop the sea life.
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#1203602019-03-13
Earth Today | Youth Exposed To Environment Policy
is pressing ahead with efforts to give young people a say in The Government environmental policy while keeping them up to date on current and emergent issues.This is courtesy of the Youth Environment and Advocacy Programme (YEAP), which has visited its seventh school in two years and reached mor ...
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#1203632019-03-14
Biodiversity key to sustainable food production
The Food and Agriculture Organization recently released a report on the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture. Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture refers to plants, animals and micro-organisms that sustain the ecosystem structures and processes to provide food and non-food ...
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#1203642019-03-14
Kenya: Macron to Hold Talks With President Kenyatta Wednesday
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected in the country Wednesday afternoon for bilateral talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta in what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described as a historic State visit, the first by a sitting French Head of State.
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#1203652019-03-14
Scientists decry decline in dragonflies, other insects, impact on ecosystem
Findings of a study “Odonata Diversity in Nigeria,” carried out by researchers from six higher institutions in the country, have shown that the populations of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) are declining in an unprecedented manner in the country.
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#1203662019-03-14
Strong planetary magnetic fields like Earth's may protect oceans from stellar storms
A study by scientists at ANU on the magnetic fields of planets has found that most planets discovered in other solar systems are unlikely to be as hospitable to life as Earth.
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#1203672019-03-14
More acidic seas devour marine food web
As more acidic seas spread across the globe, conditions for survival start to change. That could close vast volumes of ocean for vital forms of life.
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#1203682019-03-14
Startup called Coral Vita wants to protect corals by farming them
As a scuba-diver, Sam Teicher has long been worried about threats to coral reefs, including pollution and global warming.After college, he worked on a reef restoration project on the island of Mauritius, off the coast of Africa. He wanted to continue this work. But he knew it would be expensive ...
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#1203692019-03-14
Climate change: The essential guide for both young and old
Our climate has shaped life on Earth for thousands of years. A combination of “the atmosphere, oceans, lands, ice and the life on our planet acting in concert under the power of the sun” creates the climate where we live.
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#1203702019-03-14
The Looming Plastic Pollution Crisis
Recent studies in the Arctic revealed that each litre of sea ice contains around 12,000 particles of microplastic, which scientists believe are being ingested by native animals and marine life.
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#1203712019-03-14
How pollution and greenhouse gases affect the climate in the Sahel
Over the last decade many countries in the Sahel region—the semi-arid southern edge of the Sahara that stretches from Senegal to Ethiopia—have been embroiled in conflict. Populations in these countries are growing. This means that resources are increasingly scarce, and a highly variable climate ...
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#1203722019-03-14
#Plasticfree: how to handle the scary plastic threat on our own backs
Doing the laundry for a family of four every week has always been tedious, but now it is burdened by knowing that almost every item we wash is releasing hundreds of thousands of tiny synthetic fibers into our waterways and the ocean beyond.
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#1203732019-03-14
Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel peace prize
Greta Thunberg, the founder of the Youth Strike for Climate movement, has been nominated for the Nobel peace prize, just before the biggest day yet of global action.
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#1203742019-03-14
'We can’t afford to stand by and do nothing’: 10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet
Schoolchildren around the world are joining a global strike against climate change this week. But they’re not the only everyday people inspired to take action. We talk to 10 UK activists on the frontline of our most serious environmental issues.
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#1203752019-03-14
Evidence of self-forming waterfalls reported
A trio of researchers with the University of Nevada, Reno, the California Institute of Technology and GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences reports evidence that suggests some waterfalls self-form in the absence of external influences. In their paper published in the journal Nature, Joel Sc ...
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#1203772019-03-14
This map shows how climate change affects extreme weather around the world
In the early 2000s, a new field of climate science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms.
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#1203782019-03-14
The impact of extreme weather on biodiversity and pollinating insects
Markus Franzén, doctor in ecology at the department of biology and environmental science at Linnaeus University, has been granted SEK 3 million by Formas for his research project, "Cascading effects of drought on farming/grazing and farmland biodiversity."
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#1203792019-03-14
Climate strikes: why we scientists are getting involved
Young people are on a climate strike, and researchers are supporting their cause. Reto Knutti of Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology ETH discusses an unexpected turn in the climate change debate and the role of science in society.
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#1203802019-03-14
Central Africa The two Congos will fight poaching together
Brazzaville and Kinshasa have just strengthened their cooperation in the fight against poaching. Both countries are located in the heart of the second largest green lung on the planet and affected by this illegal hunting, which is decimating several animal species at their borders.
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#1203812019-03-15
The Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Even Bigger Than Climate Change
Nature is in freefall and the planet’s support systems are so stretched that we face widespread species extinctions and mass human migration unless urgent action is taken. That’s the warning hundreds of scientists are preparing to give, and it’s stark.
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#1203822019-03-15
The UK’s biodiversity crash
Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in his Spring Statement this week that the government will launch a global and national review into the link between biodiversity and economic growth. This is welcome news.
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#1203832019-03-15
Quebec's environment minister vows to crack down on illegal dumping
The Quebec government will have new regulations in the coming weeks barring illegal dumping on rural land, Benoit Charette says.On the eve of a global student protest demanding action on climate change, Quebec’s environment minister vowed to act locally by cracking down on the dumping of constru ...
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#1203842019-03-15
These countries are the most dangerous for wildlife
The biggest killers of wildlife globally are unsustainable hunting and harvesting, and the conversion of huge swathes of natural habitat into farms, housing estates, roads and other industrial activities. There is little doubt that these threats are driving the current mass extinction crisis.
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#1203852019-03-15
Climate strike: Greta Thunberg calls for ‘system change not climate change’ – here’s what that could look like
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, is calling for system change. At a press conference in Brussels, she told the European Commission that in order to fight climate change we need to change our political and economic systems – a message that has been repeated on signs and i ...
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#1203862019-03-15
Climate strikes: students around the world walk out to demand change – live
From Denmark to the Philippines, students have been telling us why today is so important. Anna Raadshøj, 18, from Vejle in Denmark said we must act now: “We’re singing songs together, marching together and writing letters to the Danish government. We can’t wait 30 years in the future before we t ...
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#1203872019-03-15
Global warming: Children's climate strike spreads worldwide
Thousands of schoolchildren worldwide have abandoned classrooms for a day of protest against climate change. India, South Korea, Australia and France are among the countries where teenagers are already on strike.
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#1203882019-03-15
Fridays for Future: Students hold international climate change protests
A global school strike against climate change inaction is underway. Protests have taken place or will do so in more than 100 countries, all following the example of one young Swedish climate activist.
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#1203892019-03-15
Thank you, climate strikers. Your action matters and your power will be felt
I want to say to all the climate strikers today: thank you so much for being unreasonable. That is, if reasonable means playing by the rules, and the rules are presumed to be guidelines for what is and is not possible, then you may be told that what you are asking for is impossible or unreasonable.
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#1203902019-03-15
A manifesto for tackling the climate change crisis
We’re the UK Student Climate Network. We’re young, we’re students and we’re calling for change. Our movement started in February when tens of thousands of young people took to the streets in towns and cities around Britain, in an unprecedented emergence of a youth climate justice movement.
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#1203912019-03-15
Facing the Climate Crisis: A Conversation With David Wallace-Wells
In 2017, David Wallace-Wells, a writer at New York magazine, published an article about global warming and Earth’s apocalyptic future. The article went viral, but climate scientists found it alarmist; after the devastating climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) wa ...
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#1203922019-03-15
Kenyatta Affirms Commitment to Achieve 10% Minimum Forest Cover
Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta had affirmed Kenya's commitment to achieve a minimum of 10 per cent forest cover by 2022 as part of the country's efforts to address the challenge of climate change.
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#1203932019-03-15
UN calls for bold actions to meet biodiversity targets
The United Nations on Thursday called on its member countries to make bold actions to meet the targets of a globally-agreed strategic plan for biodiversity by 2020.
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#1203942019-03-15
Canada to host international summit to accelerate nature protection
Nature is our most precious resource. Across the globe, people are waking up to the fact that we need to do more to protect our nature and its biodiversity – the animals, plants, and wilderness that we value and rely on. Canada is taking action, making historic investments in conservation and do ...
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#1203962019-03-15
New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction
Animals around the globe are losing ground to farming and ranching, and their numbers are dwindling at the hands of human hunters. But the question of where to direct precious resources to protect that biodiversity remains vexing.
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#1203972019-03-15
$2M project aims to spark new thinking on climate change
Earth’s climate is changing and urgent action is needed to address that reality, says a Royal Roads University professor. “We are already locked into a certain amount of climate change,” Robin Cox, an expert in disaster response and planning, said in an interview.
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#1203982019-03-15
Nova Scotia to become first province to regulate biodiversity
Bill aims to close gaps between Endangered Species Act, Wildlife Act and other legislationThe provincial government is taking the first steps to better protect biodiversity in Nova Scotia. Lands and Forestry Minister Iain Rankin tabled the Biodiversity Act on Thursday. The move is something requ ...
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#1203992019-03-15
Dead whale washed up in Philippines had 40kg of plastic bags in its stomach
Marine biologists horrified to find 16 rice sacks and multiple shopping bags inside Cuvier’s beaked whale
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#1204002019-03-18
US and Saudi Arabia blocking regulation of geoengineering, sources say
Delegates at UN environment assembly say the oil producers are protecting their industries
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#1204012019-03-18
No fishing allowed in Ascension Island’s new marine protected area
Ascension Island, in the southern Atlantic Ocean, is getting a new marine protected area twice the size of the United Kingdom (UK).
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#1204022019-03-18
Environmental degradation threat to health, says UN
[NAIROBI] Environmental degradation due to factors such as urbanisation, rapid population growth, economic development and transportation, especially in the global south, could have serious consequences on people’s health, warns a UN report.
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#1204032019-03-18
Invasive plants a fast-growing threat to India’s rhinos
On a gloomy afternoon in May 2018, conservation biologist Bibhab Talukdar was visiting Pobitora National Park in India’s Assam state.
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#1204042019-03-18
Possible vaquita death accompanies announcement that only 10 are left
On March 13, scientists announced that around 10 vaquitas (Phocoena sinus) are left on Earth, just as the environmental group Sea Shepherd said it had found one of the porpoises that had drowned in a gillnet that was probably set to catch a totoaba fish.
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#1204052019-03-18
Climate change negatively affects waterbirds in the American West
New research shows that recent climate change is having profound effects on wetlands across the American West – affecting birds that use these wetlands for breeding, migration and wintering.
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#1204062019-03-18
Climate change putting entire North Atlantic ecosystem at risk, says oceans conference organizer
It's hard to look at the future of the North Atlantic without acknowledging the dramatic impact climate change will have on the ecosystem, says one of the organizers of a weekend conference on the issue.
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#1204072019-03-18
The value of native title in Australia
Timber Creek is the quintessence of a one-horse town. Even by Northern Territory, Australia standards it is tiny. Now, it is the centre of a native title decision which has national significance and massive implications for the country.