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#1339272022-04-06
Protected Tropical Forest Sees Major Bird Declines Over 40 Years — ScienceDaily
Deep in a Panamanian rain forest, bird populations have been quietly declining for 44 years. A new University of Illinois-led study shows a whopping 70% of understory bird species declined in the forest between 1977 and 2020. And the vast majority of those are down by half or more.
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#1339282022-04-06
GM fish engineered to glow in the dark are found in Brazil creeks
A recent study shows that genetically modified zebrafish, known as GloFish, have been found and are breeding in creeks in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.
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#1339292022-04-06
‘Resilient’ leatherback turtles can survive fishing rope entanglements. Mostly
Leatherback turtles are highly vulnerable to getting entangled in lobster pot fishing gear off the coast of Massachusetts. A new study now shows that they can largely survive these entanglements — if they’re reached by rescuers in time, and their injuries are treatable.
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#1339302022-04-06
The amazing — and unknown — diversity of insects living in the Amazon canopy
Small and often imperceptible to the human eye, insects play a vital role in the environment. “They appeared more than 400 million years before humans,” says Dalton de Souza Amorim, a researcher from the University of São Paulo.
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#1339312022-04-06
UN biodiversity chief Elizabeth Maruma Mrema awarded 15th Kew International Medal
Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) Kew is proud to announce the recipient of this year’s Kew International Medal is Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, a Tanzanian biodiversity leader and lawyer, and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The Kew International Medal is ...
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#1339322022-04-06
MREMA: Businesses can no longer afford to overlook nature
Elizabeth Mrema, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, spoke to Luke Anami on how companies can take care of nature.
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#1339332022-04-06
Global biodiversity deal running short on time and ambition
Negotiators and observers left the latest meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) with renewed momentum but with many issues still unresolved, including how to find the missing US$700 billion needed annually to protect and restore nature.
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#1339342022-04-06
The microbiologist working to understand how oceans absorb carbon dioxide
Qiang Zheng, a microbiologist at Xiamen University in southeast China, wants to know whether bacteria and other marine microorganisms can be harnessed to help combat global warming.
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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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#1339362022-04-06
Earthworms like to eat some plastics, but side effects of their digestion are unclear
Earthworms are a welcome sight for gardeners and farmers because the wriggling invertebrates recycle nutrients from soil, making them more accessible to plants. As worms burrow, they consume almost everything in their path, including microscopic plastic pollution.
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#1339372022-04-06
Century-old malaria parasite puzzle solved as ape origin traced
Scientists have solved a 100-year-old mystery about the evolutionary links between malaria parasites that infect humans and chimpanzees.
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#1339382022-04-06
Colombian researchers seek safety for bees in urban jungle
Far from the flowery fields that are their natural home, honey bees imperiled by pesticides in rural Colombia are finding sanctuary on university campuses in the bustling capital Bogota.
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#1339392022-04-06
Zoos hiding birds as avian flu spreads in North America
Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza.
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#1339402022-04-06
How does perennial grassland cover affect duck nest survival?
Efforts related to the management of breeding ducks in North America have often focused on developing and implementing practices that promote the survival of nests.
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#1339412022-04-06
Blood-sucking leeches can help scientists map biodiversity
Scientists looking to measure the biodiversity of wild animals have added a surprising tool to their arsenal—blood-sucking leeches. In a new study led by a team of Harvard researchers, DNA samples extracted from the blood meals of leeches were used to map which animals live in the Ailaoshan Natu ...
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#1339422022-04-06
The pleasant smell of wet soil indicates danger to bacteria-eating worms, researchers find
The smell of geosmin is unmistakable: It's the odor that permeates the air after a summer rain squall or fills your nose while gardening. It's the smell of wet soil—an earthy, almost comforting scent.
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#1339462022-04-06
Pinterest bans climate change misinformation and conspiracy theories
Social media companies including Pinterest, an image-based platform that went public in 2019, have been under increasing pressure to curb harmful misinformation on their sites, though some lawmakers and users criticize tech platforms as overreaching in their content rules.
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#1339472022-04-06
Scientists have just told us how to solve the climate crisis – will the world listen?
A mid the triple crisis of the war in Ukraine, the still-raging pandemic and escalating inflation, climate scientists have just pulled off a truly impressive achievement.
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#1339482022-04-06
The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead
It was once the pinnacle of humanity’s climate ambitions. A new UN-led climate report essentially concedes that it’s out of reach. The world’s most ambitious climate goal—to keep the planet’s average temperature from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above its preindustrial level—is still tec ...
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#1339492022-04-06
Could Climate Change Lead To The Next Black Plague?
Barbados, Apr 6: Rodents are well known reservoirs of disease, and our lives will increasingly intersect as our shared environment warms.
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#1339502022-04-06
What's in store for Europe's tree species?
Scientists supported by the EU-funded FORGENIUS project have presented a new data set showing current and potential future distributions of European tree species. Called EU-Trees4F, the data set provides a detailed model on how the ranges of 67 tree species will change between now and 2095.
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#1339512022-04-06
The spider that looks like bird poo—and other amazing (and gross) tricks animals deploy to survive
Animals do all sorts of disgusting things. While these gross behaviours might turn our stomachs, they're often crucial to an animal's survival.
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#1339522022-04-06
Simulations explain Greenland's slower summer warming
A puzzling, decade-long slowdown in summer warming across Greenland has been explained by researchers at Hokkaido University in Japan. Their observational analysis and computer simulations revealed that changes in sea surface temperature in the tropical Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles to the s ...
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#1339532022-04-06
Do you toss biodegradable plastic in the compost bin? Here's why it might not break down
Over one-fifth of all plastic produced worldwide is tossed into uncontrolled dumpsites, burned in open pits or leaked into the environment. In Australia, 1.1 million tonnes of plastic is placed in the market, yet just 16% (179,000 tonnes) is recovered.
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#1339542022-04-06
The Earth beneath us may be shifting -- not static
Ground-breaking research into the hot structures deep in the Earth suggest they could be much more fluid than once supposed.
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#1339552022-04-06
Vegetarian birds more sociable than insect eaters
Weaver birds that eat seeds flock together and nest in colonies more commonly than those species that eat insects, suggests new research by an international team of scientists led by the Milner Center for Evolution at the University of Bath.
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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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#1339082022-04-01
Funding battles stymie ambitious plan to protect global biodiversity
Scientists are frustrated with countries’ progress towards inking a new deal to protect the natural world. Government officials from around the globe met in Geneva, Switzerland, on 14–29 March to find common ground on a draft of the deal, known as the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, but ...
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#1339092022-04-01
Indigenous communities crucial to protecting biodiversity, says Minister Creecy
Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has highlighted how engaging with local and indigenous communities can benefit economic potential and protect biodiversity.
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#1339102022-04-01
Climate change is everywhere in the story of a mounting global food crisis
Since Russia's war in Ukraine began, there’s been much talk about the pursuant energy crisis and the world’s need for a clean-energy transition. Though the implications for climate change are significant, journalists have only sometimes spelled them out in their coverage.
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#1339112022-04-01
Butterfly survival reduced by warmer and longer autumns
Pupae of the green-veined white butterfly use more energy if autumn is long and warm, which leaves them too weak to emerge as butterflies in spring - and the results might apply to other butterfly species too.
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#1339122022-04-01
How to Convince People to Leave Homes at Serious Risk From Climate Change
Nearly 100 million Americans live on the coasts, and they are continuing to move there at high rates. In fact, the coastal population has grown by more than 15 percent since 2000—faster than the rest of the country—and the population of coastline counties in the Gulf of Mexico region increased b ...
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#1339132022-04-01
Can carbon markets supercharge nature-based solutions to climate change?
Market economics have done much to c ause the climate crisis. But can they help solve it? Carbon markets and sustainable finance taxonomy are two rapidly growing market mechanisms that promise a surge in climate finance and a simultaneous decline in greenhouse gas emissions.
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#1339142022-04-01
Climate change: A look at some extreme temperatures recorded worldwide
The World Meteorological Organisation has declared 2021 as one of the seven warmest years on record. The story so far: In March, parts of eastern Antarctica recorded extremely high temperatures that were around 30 degrees Celsius above normal, sounding alarm bells for rapidly progressing climate ...
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#1339152022-04-01
More people may be hospitalized with low sodium levels due to climate change
The human body needs sodium for various body functions — from conducting nerve impulses to regulating heart rate, digestion, brain activity, and blood pressure.
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#1339162022-04-01
Microplastics found deep in lungs of living people for first time
Microplastic pollution has been discovered lodged deep in the lungs of living people for the first time. The particles were found in almost all the samples analysed.
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#1338562022-03-31
10 Ways To Shape a Positive Future for Forests
Anna Begemann is a researcher in the Governance Program at the European Forest Institute. From deforestation largely caused by agricultural encroachment in the Amazon, to devastating forest fires in Canada,
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#1338572022-03-31
Plastic Pollution Is a Global Problem – Here’s How to Design an Effective Treaty To Curb It
Plastic pollution is accumulating worldwide, on land and in the oceans. According to one widely cited estimate, by 2025, 100 million to 250 million metric tons of plastic waste could enter the ocean each year.
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#1338582022-03-31
Getting paid to let the forest stand – it´s true, it´s here
Swedish forest owners struggle with their profitability. Low timber prices, the lowest in Europe, are not only annoying the forest owners, but it has also made them think of alternatives to selling the timber through the traditional channels.
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#1338602022-03-31
Hope for Coral Reefs
Juli Berwald’s love affair with coral began when she saw her first reef in college — and it changed her life. Mesmerized by the beauty of these underwater animals, she set out on a path to study marine biology, eventually earning a Ph.D.
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#1338612022-03-31
Best-preserved part of Brazil’s Amazon, home to isolated tribes, faces ‘decimation’
The central Purus River Basin is one of the best-preserved regions of the Brazilian Amazon. But deforestation here, in the state of Amazonas, could clear an area larger than England by 2050, according to a new report by several civil society organizations.
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#1338632022-03-31
Chile poised to grant rights to Nature; could become 2nd such country besides Ecuador
Chile is poised to grant rights to nature in its constitution and could become the second such country in the world besides Ecuador in the next few days, according to a statement.
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#1338642022-03-31
That dead whale on the beach? Let it be, study says. Or at least don’t blow it up
What happens when there’s a dead whale on the beach? In many reported strandings, the next steps look quite similar: where possible, biologists and veterinarians examine the carcass and conduct a necropsy to try and figure out why the mammal may have died.
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#1338652022-03-31
Allergy season is getting worse. Why climate change is to blame
If you suffer from seasonal allergies, you are well aware the dreaded season is underway, and for many, it’s another bad year. According to medical experts, the allergy season has been getting worse.
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#1338662022-03-31
The Razor's Edge of A Warming World
As we hurtle toward an ever-hotter future, GQ spotlights eight places whose very identities depend on a simple calculation: If we limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, these places could be saved. In a 2-degree scenario, they would be irredeemably lost.
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#1338672022-03-31
What Impact does Climate Change have on Our Health?
Climate change is caused mainly by human activity subsequent to the Industrial Revolution, a major part due to fossil fuel use, and secondly due to changes in land use.
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#1338682022-03-31
The nation finding peace underwater
For many South Africans, the quiet and calmness that can be found in the water – one of the rare places with few, if any, human-related threats – has been transformational.
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#1338692022-03-31
Attenborough ship proves its polar credentials
The new Royal Research Ship (RRS) Sir David Attenborough is proving its capabilities as an icebreaker. On its first outing to the Antarctic, the £200m polar vessel - popularly known as Boaty McBoatface - has been smashing through thick frozen floes.
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#1338702022-03-31
Fast fashion: European Union reveals fast fashion crackdown
Clothes, furniture and smartphones sold in Europe must be longer-lasting and easier to repair under new rules proposed by the European Union.
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#1338712022-03-31
Raw sewage discharged into English rivers 375,000 times by water firms
Water companies discharged raw sewage into English rivers 372,533 times last year, a slight reduction on the previous year.