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#1336712022-03-03
Feature: Nature-based solutions to improve climate change and air quality
Stephen Cirell, an independent consultant on climate change, low carbon and renewable energy, advises how local authorities and policy makers can incorporate nature-based solutions into their climate, biodiversity and air quality plans.
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#1336722022-03-03
15 Flawlessly Symmetrical Plants That Prove Nature Is A Perfectionist
Of the hundreds of thousands of different types of plants, most of them are symmetrical in some way. But have you ever seen a perfectly symmetrical flower?
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#1336732022-03-03
India committed to recovering species to restore ecosystem: Bhupender Yadav
India is committed to recovering species for ecosystem restoration, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Thursday on the occasion of World Wildlife Day.
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#1336742022-03-03
World Wildlife Day: Recovering Key Species for Ecosystem Restoration
The conservation of habitat for key species has a positive impact on the population for many others due to them relying upon and sharing the same habitat type necessary for the long-term survival of the key species in question.
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#1336752022-03-03
World Wildlife Day 2022 Theme Examines Key Species and Ecosystem Restoration
World Wildlife Day is an annual event held by the United Nations to raise awareness and celebrate Earth's animals and plants. World Wildlife Day 2022, on March 3, centers around the theme of "recovering key species for ecosystem restoration." But what exactly does that mean and why is it important?
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#1336762022-03-03
Species Biodiversity Critical To Sustaining Life
Today marks World Wildlife Day and this year’s theme “Recovering Key Species for Ecosystem Restoration” is a reminder that as the planet continues to warm under Climate Change, the biodiversity crisis becomes more imminent.
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#1336772022-03-03
World Wildlife Day: Follow these 8 wildlife photographers on Instagram
Wildlife photography is probably one of the most patience-testing passions and art. Ask any wildlife photographer about the story behind his/her captured shot and they will tell you about the hours they have spent in the jungle for one perfect shot, for that one breathtaking moment.
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#1336782022-03-03
#WorldWildlifeDay: How police are protecting biodiversity for a greener future
The illegal acquisition and consumption of wildlife are among the top global drivers of the decimation of some of the world’s most endangered species and a severe threat to the delicate balance between ecosystems and biodiversity.
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#1336792022-03-03
World Wildlife Day: Emirates and Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve’s Efforts To Restore and Preserve Fragile Desert Ecosystems
For almost 20 years, Emirates has helped support a sustainable and balanced ecosystem at the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve (DDCR) through an ongoing investment of over AED 28 million (USD $7.6 million).
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#1336802022-03-03
World Wildlife Day 2022: Five interesting facts about nature and wildlife
World Wildlife Day is observed every year on March 3 to raise awareness about issues that impact wildlife. Earth is home to innumerable species, and each one of them plays an important role in balancing the environment.
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#1336812022-03-03
World Wildlife Day: From Traps to Stupas—Conservation Story of Ladakh’s Wolves Using Community-Based PARTNERS Approach
Not long ago, enforcement agencies considered local communities a threat to conservation, driving them away from “reserved” forests and blocking their access to natural resources like honey and fodder. Repeated conflicts remained widespread and constant from colonial times up until recent years.
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#1336822022-03-03
World Wildlife Day: Remembering Some Extinct Animals With Bizarre Traits That Roamed on Earth Millions of Years Ago!
World Wildlife Day is here, and it is time to celebrate the incredible wild heritage of the Earth. While behavioural studies of the existing wildlife provide insights into conservation, understanding how extinct species thrived millions of years ago is equally important for studying animal evolu ...
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#1336832022-03-03
World Wildlife Day 2022: Here's a look at some interesting movies with animals in pivotal roles
World Wildlife Day is celebrated across the globe on 3 March to raise awareness about wild animals and plants that are present on Earth. The important annual event is dedicated to wildlife and draws attention to the imperative need of preserving endangered species.
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#1336842022-03-03
Alphabet : This World Wildlife Day, the key word is adapt
Conservationists are concerned we're not adequately preparing to protect the wolverines and their habitat which is also home to other species of animals and plants. In 2020, the decision to federally list the wolverine as threatened under the Endangered Species Act was rejected on the basis that ...
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#1336852022-03-03
Forest Edges Are More, Not Less, Productive Than Interior Forest
Trees at the edges of forests often seem like an afterthought, but those trees may play an outsized role in carbon storage, new research from the northeastern United States has found.
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#1336862022-03-03
IPCC report details catastrophe for planet as threats from climate change mount
Many natural landscapes are at the point of no return, and without action on climate change the planet will become unliveable.
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#1336872022-03-03
Protecting the ocean, from the land
There is an expanse of wetland where the Yellow River flows into the sea in Dongying, Shandong province, where birds gather and seawater laps over the grasses and shrubs. Here, in October last year, the National Park Administration approved the creation of China’s first “integrated land–sea” nat ...
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#1336882022-03-03
Protect This Place: The Fragile and Enchanting Costa Dos Corais
Protect This PlaceCosta dos Corais harbors one of the largest reef formations in Brazil and is rich in biodiversity —groups of algae, fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic mammals, along with its namesake corals. I
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#1336892022-03-03
An environmental scientist points to Indigenous knowledge for sustainability solutions
There is scientific consensus that human civilization is a threat to life on Earth. Efforts are underway to alleviate that threat, but there is much doubt over whether we can turn back our cascading environmental impacts.
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#1336902022-03-03
A more potent CO2 sink than the Amazon, Brazil’s mangroves remain overlooked
Tropical forests play a fundamental role in storing carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming. And while the Amazon rainforest is often top of mind when it comes to stores of CO2, there’s another ecosystem in Brazil that stashes away a much larger amount of carbon pe ...
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#1336912022-03-03
Tasmania records driest summer in 40 years as La Niña ‘swings the wind around’
While Queensland and New South Wales have been hit with historic rainfall and floods, Tasmania has endured its driest summer in 40 years.
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#1336922022-03-03
‘We are doing our best’: rescuers fear for animals injured in NSW and Queensland floods
The flood disaster in New South Wales and Queensland has prompted concerns for ground-dwelling animals that can become trapped in their habitat or swept into other environments.
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#1336932022-03-03
California wants to eradicate microplastics. Will a new strategy be enough?
Microplastics can be found everywhere, from waterways to fish to inside the human body’s soft tissues. And it’s only getting worse – 11m metric tons of plastic enter the planet’s oceans each year, an amount that is expected to triple by 2040.
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#1336942022-03-03
Climate change: Why it is now or never for India
The latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has painted a bleak picture for India, warning that the South Asian country could face multiple climate change-induced disasters in the next two decades.
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#1336962022-03-03
Collective action helps young adults deal with climate change anxiety
A study from a coalition of researchers led by the Yale School of Public Health may have identified a potential buffer to climate woes: collective action.
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#1336972022-03-03
How can climate finance reach war zones and help to build peace?
Climate change often hits the poor hardest and is felt most profoundly in fragile and conflict-affected settings, which suffer high vulnerability and low investments in coping capacity and adaptation.
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#1336982022-03-03
What the IPCC Report tells us about the need for radical climate action
In November 2021, COP26 concluded in Glasgow, Scotland, with the adoption of the Glasgow Climate Pact – a commitment to reach a global net-zero emissions target by 2050. Central to the pact is keeping a 1.5℃ global warming target within reach. Glasgow achieved some progress, but estimates sugges ...
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#1336992022-03-03
Unravelling the moving mysteries of Antarctica
Scientists are exploring a new method to uncover changes occurring in the mysterious East Antarctica. These changes that will affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people across the planet.
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#1337012022-03-03
The hidden footprint of low-carbon indoor farming
A new study challenges the universal land-saving claims of vertical farming, finding that there is no one size fits all approach for land use, food security and sustainable agriculture.
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#1337022022-03-03
Researchers reconstruct ancient fish lizard
Geologists at Lund University in Sweden have mapped 300 years of research on the prehistoric marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs. Using a uniquely well-preserved fossil, the team has also created the scientifically most up-to-date reconstruction of an ichthyosaur currently available.
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#1337032022-03-03
Bull ant evolves new way to target pain
Australian bull ants have evolved a venom molecule perfectly tuned to target one of their predators—the echidna—that also could have implications for people with long-term pain, University of Queensland researchers say.
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#1337042022-03-03
Grasshoppers show how alpine fauna will be lost as global temperatures rise
New research indicates anthropogenic climate change will result in a quarter of Aotearoa New Zealand's alpine grasshopper species becoming extinct. Species that are already endangered and others that are currently widespread could lose all of their current habitat due to global warming.
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#1337052022-03-03
Animals have evolved to avoid overexploiting their resources. Can humans do the same?
People have been trying to understand how predators and prey are able to stay balanced within our planet's ecosystems for at least 2,400 years.
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#1337062022-03-03
Saving native turtles one hatchling at a time
Murdoch University researchers have welcomed a baby turtle into the world this week as part of an important incubation research project aiming to save the iconic Southwestern snake-necked turtles at Bibra Lake from dwindling population numbers.
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#1337072022-03-03
Study of algae in Acadia National Park lakes shows recovery from acidification
Acadia National Park is known for its beautiful lakes—and they can tell scientists a lot about the health of the environment.
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#1337082022-03-03
What makes plants electrically excitable
Plant cells use electrical signals to process and transmit information. In 1987, as a postdoc of Erwin Neher in Göttingen, biophysicist Rainer Hedrich discovered an ion channel in the central vacuole of the plant cell, which is activated by calcium and electrical voltage, using the patch-clamp t ...
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#1337092022-03-03
Corals can be 'trained' to tolerate heat stress, study finds
A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that corals that underwent a stressful temperature treatment in the laboratory for 90 days were more tolerant to increased water temperatures.
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#1337102022-03-03
Sixth mass extinction looms as humanity fails to act, scientists say
Life on Earth is disappearing so rapidly that some scientists believe a mass extinction event is now underway for the first time since the dinosaurs were wiped out 66 million years ago.
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#1337112022-03-03
UN issues 12 stamps illustrating endangered species in Central & South America and the Caribbean
Twelve new, colorful and original stamps are being launched today as part of the United Nations Endangered Species Stamps series. The stamps are issued by the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) and the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fa ...
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#1337122022-03-03
Three crops rule the world: What it means for the planet’s wildlife
Around three-fourths of the food humans consume globally comes from just 12 plant and five animal sources, with just three crops — wheat, rice and corn — accounting for 51 per cent of the calories included in the diet, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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#1337132022-03-03
Can we save coral reefs? | Problem Solved
Coral reefs are a unique and biodiverse natural ecosystem and economic keystones for many communities and nations. They only cover about 0.2% of the ocean floor but support 25% of marine life.
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#1336672022-03-02
UN agrees to create global plastic pollution treaty
The United Nations approved a landmark agreement to create the world's first ever global plastic pollution treaty on Wednesday, describing it as the most significant environmental deal since the 2015 Paris climate accord.
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#1336252022-03-02
World Wildlife Day 2022: Date, Theme, History And Significance Of The Day That Celebrates Diversity Of Life On The Planet
The innumerable forms of animals and plants that live in the wild have an incalculable value as they play a major role in ecological, cultural, scientific, social, and aesthetic aspects of human well-being. World Wildlife Day is an annual observance that is celebrated on March 3 every year to pr ...
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#1336262022-03-02
World Wildlife Day celebrated in Kenya
Two lions are seen at the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Aug. 30, 2021. The World Wildlife Day, which is marked annually on March 3 to raise the awareness on the world's wild animals and plants, is celebrated under the theme "Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration" this year.
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#1336272022-03-02
Expo 2020 Dubai to celebrate World Wildlife Day with experts at Terra auditorium
Dubai: Expo 2020 Dubai will celebrate World Wildlife Day tomorrow with a dedicated event comprising top conservationists, scientists and activists from across the world, shining a spotlight on local, regional and global efforts to preserve, protect and save endangered species, while inspiring si ...
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#1336282022-03-02
Free admission to biodiversity museums on World Wildlife Day
Visiting the museums of natural history and biodiversity all over the country is free, due to its unique role and importance in introducing and displaying valuable species, in addition to making people aware of the value of biodiversity conservation and ecosystems.
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#1336292022-03-02
Spotlight on United Nations Environment Assembly With Legally Binding Pact to Address Plastic Pollution Being Expected
On Wednesday, the third and final day at the resumed the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly taking place at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Kenya, all eyes are on the possible establishment of an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to kick-start work ...
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#1336302022-03-02
Amina Mohammed (Deputy Secretary-General) at UNEA -5.2
Remarks by Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) - High Level Segment.
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#1336312022-03-02
World inching closer to end plastic pollution at UNEA
With several draft resolutions submitted by nations, including India, the world is inching closer to the historical resolution to end plastic pollution that is expected to be gavelled with the adjournment of the resumed fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) at the closing plena ...
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#1336322022-03-02
UN environment meeting in Kenya: a chance to finally act?
The United Nations Environment Assembly is gathering for three days in Kenya's capital to find holistic solutions to today's environmental threats. The fight against plastic pollution is one of the key topics to be tabled with the hope governments will agree on a legally binding agreement to end ...