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#1336332022-03-02
UN to take first step towards 'historic' plastic treaty
The United Nations is to launch formal negotiations on Wednesday for a global treaty to address the planet's "epidemic" of plastic trash, a moment that supporters describe as historic.
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#1336342022-03-02
Plastic fantastic: show highlighting art made from marine waste to open this week
A temporary art exhibition designed to highlight plastic waste in the seas is to open this week. A Plastic Ocean, on show at the former Dog House bar on Hamilton’s Front Street, will feature works created from marine plastic waste by a range of island artists and schoolchildren.
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#1336352022-03-02
On land and sea, climate change causing 'irreversible' losses: UN
Climate change has already caused "irreversible losses" for Nature, UN experts have said, warning that if emissions are not cut quickly, warming could trigger chain reactions with potentially catastrophic effects for all species, including humans.
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#1336362022-03-02
We Are Changing Climate Faster Than We Can Adapt, New IPCC Report Warns
Humans are changing the climate too rapidly for nature to keep up, according to a new United Nations (UN) report released on Monday. Unless greenhouse gas emissions are quickly slashed, both humans and wildlife will no longer adapt to the dangers of a warming planet.
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#1336372022-03-02
UN report could change the conversation on ‘loss and damage’ at November’s climate negotiations
Climate solutions often fall into two major categories: actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help stabilize the climate, collectively known as “mitigation,” and actions that reduce risks to human life, ecosystems, and economies from the effects of climate change, or “adaptation.”
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#1336382022-03-02
Loss of Sumatran rhinos leaves several plant species without a seed disperser
The critically endangered Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) plays a unique role in dispersing seeds in Southeast Asian forests, and its disappearance from these landscapes is already affecting the composition of the forests.
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#1336392022-03-02
To save the oceans, we need MPAs that emphasize actual protection of marine ecosystems (commentary)
Saving the ocean is possible but it requires getting serious about stopping its destruction, not everywhere, but especially in designated places called marine protected areas, a new op-ed argues.
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#1336402022-03-02
In Brazil, evicted Indigenous residents fight to reclaim their community
As she walks through the rubble, Yawaratsuni Kokama steps over loose bricks and piles of broken tiles, her eyes welling up. From time to time, she stops to pluck a ripened mango from a tree or yank a cassava root from the ground.
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#1336412022-03-02
Terrawatch: how carbon-eating rocks could help fight climate crisis
In the not too distant future we’re probably going to have to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, to address the climate emergency. Most carbon capture and storage methods involve injecting gaseous or dissolved carbon dioxide into underground reservoirs, but there is always a niggling wor ...
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#1336422022-03-02
We’re on the hunt for young nature lovers – do you know any?
Spring is on its way, and Young Country Diary is once again open for submissions. Every three months we ask you to send us a piece about the natural world, written by a child aged 8-14.
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#1336432022-03-02
A Blue New Deal by Chris Armstrong review – a manifesto for the oceans
Governments talk of green jobs, green industrial revolutions and creating green new deals. The aim of these efforts is to tackle runaway climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality by remoulding our political and economic systems.
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#1336442022-03-02
Warming of Indian Ocean could weaken southwest monsoon, German study on rains in India says
Sustained warming of the Indian Ocean will increase rainfall above the ocean, but weaken the Indian summer (southwest) monsoon over land, a study has found.
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#1336452022-03-02
Climate crisis: Indigenous groups both victims and saviours
Long portrayed as victims of climate change, indigenous peoples who have struggled for years to protect ancestral lands and ways of life from destruction are finally being recognised as playing an important role in defending precious environments.
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#1336462022-03-02
Quantifying traffic noise pollution levels: a cross-sectional survey in South Africa
Despite the alarming increase in environmental noise pollution, particularly road traffic noise, in developing countries, there seems to be no awareness regarding the long-term impacts of noise, specifically traffic noise, on the health outcomes of individuals exposed to excessive noise.
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#1336472022-03-02
Air pollution deaths up 2.5 times in India in 2 decades
Deaths attributable to PM 2.5 pollution in India have increased by 2.5 times over the last two decades, according to a new report by the Centre for Science and Environment.
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#1336482022-03-02
The most ‘sustainable’ garment is the one that shows its wear, proudly
To attempt to buy “sustainable” clothing in 2022 is to face a carnival’s worth of smoke and mirrors — that is, if you’re buying new.
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#1336492022-03-02
Can the world meet global climate targets without coordinated global action?
Like many of its predecessors, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland concluded with bold promises on international climate action aimed at keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, but few concrete plans to ensure that those promises will be kept.
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#1336502022-03-02
Lack of early warning systems for extreme weather 'leaves millions at risk'
A lack of extreme weather early warning systems means millions of lives are at risk in climate-vulnerable communities in the global South, climate scientists warn in a landmark report.
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#1336512022-03-02
UN: Africa, already suffering from warming, will see worse
Although Africa has contributed relatively little to the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, the continent has suffered some of the world's heaviest impacts of climate change, from famine to flooding.
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#1336522022-03-02
UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia
The walls of Saifullah's home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year—some more than four feet from the damp dirt floor.
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#1336532022-03-02
Australians flee floods as toll rises to 12, Sydney on alert
Floodwaters crashed into more towns on Australia's east coast as a deadly storm front barrelled south on Wednesday towards Sydney, where the main dam began to spill water.
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#1336542022-03-02
A new molecular family tree of grasses
The evolutionary relationships among grasses—including important crop plants like wheat, rice, corn, and sugarcane—have been clarified in a new molecular study of the grass family tree.
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#1336552022-03-02
Gradual evolution is back: Darwinian theory of gradual process explained in new research
Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals—short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form—have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin.
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#1336562022-03-02
Designing scientifically-grounded paleoart for AR
Fearsome dire wolves and saber-toothed cats no longer prowl around La Brea Tar Pits, but thanks to new research, anyone can bring these extinct animals back to life through augmented reality (AR).
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#1336572022-03-02
An Ecopsychologist On How To Connect To Nature From Anywhere (Even Indoors)
I was born and raised in Suriname, the most forest-covered nation in the world, with 98% tree cover. "Nature Deficit Disorder"—a term that author Richard Louv coined to describe how being disconnected from nature can harm health—was not something I needed to worry about growing up.
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#1336582022-03-02
Australian capital's faunal emblem listed as endangered species
The faunal emblem of Australia's capital city has been added to the country's threatened species list.
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#1336592022-03-02
Reptile research group turns to local community to help fund research to preserve species at risk
A reptile research and recovery program based in southwestern Ontario is asking for the community's support in funding their research to protect the endangered wildlife.
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#1336602022-03-02
Invasive alien species? Isn't there an app for that?
Invasive alien species (IAS) are a leading contributor to biodiversity loss, and they cause annual economic damage in the order of hundreds of billions of US dollars in each of many countries around the world.
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#1336612022-03-02
Turtle species in Eastern Europe survived the event that killed the dinosaurs
Palaeobiologists from the University of Tübingen have described a previously unknown turtle species that lived in what is now Romania some 70 million years ago.
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#1336622022-03-02
Underwater noise causes hearing loss in turtles
Underwater noise pollution is causing turtles to experience hearing loss that can last from minutes to days, say researchers who will present preliminary evidence of the effects of intense noise on turtles on 4 March at the 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting, being held online from 24 Feb through 4 March.
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#1336632022-03-02
Female chimpanzees avoid humans
Female chimpanzees are less likely than males to go near villages and farmland used by humans, new research shows.
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#1336642022-03-02
UN: Droughts, less water in Europe as warming wrecks crops
"Herders and farmers have their feet on the ground, but their eyes on the sky." The old saying is still popular in Spain's rural communities who, faced with recurrent droughts, have historically paraded sculptures of saints to pray for rain.
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#1336652022-03-02
UNEA adopts landmark deal to end plastic pollution by 2024
The gavel on Wednesday came down on a historic resolution at the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) here to end plastic pollution and forge an international legally binding agreement by 2024.
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#1336662022-03-02
Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) - Closing Plenary and National Statements
The resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) takes place online and in Nairobi on 28 February – 2 March 2022.
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#1336052022-03-01
Bees can play soccer – 10 little-known facts about insects
The labyrinthine world of insects is in deep trouble. Scientists have uncovered startling declines in their populations , with the United Nations estimating that half a million species could be lost by the midpoint of this century.
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#1336062022-03-01
How one of Florida’s most beloved animals may be close to climate extinction
When Hurricane Irma ravaged south Florida in September 2017 it inundated homes, knocked out electricity for millions and killed more than 30 people.
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#1336072022-03-01
Gang-gang cockatoo to become threatened species after large drop in bird numbers
The gang-gang cockatoo, the animal emblem of the Australian Capital Territory, will be officially listed as a threatened species after a large decline in its numbers due to the climate crisis and the bushfire disaster.
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#1336082022-03-01
California debates naming heatwaves to underscore deadly risk of extreme heat
Climate scientists from around the world issued dire warnings on Monday, in the latest IPCC report on the dangers posed in the unfolding climate crisis. Among them is extreme heat, a crisis that on average already claims more American lives than hurricanes and tornadoes combined.
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#1336092022-03-01
Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
The negative impacts of climate change are mounting much faster than scientists predicted less than a decade ago, according to the latest report from a United Nations climate panel.
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#1336102022-03-01
Rising danger, crippling costs: Climate change report a grim warning for Canada
The impacts of climate change are piling up faster and faster, hurting people around the world and costing Canada billions of dollars in damages from wildfires in the West to reduced seafood harvests in the East, says a new report from the world’s top global warming research body.
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#1336112022-03-01
In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how climate change impacts the world
The threat that climate change poses to human well-being and the health of the planet is “unequivocal”, says the latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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#1336122022-03-01
These Climate Scientists Are Fed Up and Ready to Go on Strike
Sometimes, Bruce C. Glavovic feels so proud to be an environmental scientist, studying coastal planning and teaching future researchers, that it moves him to tears.
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#1336132022-03-01
Japan nonprofit creates endangered animal Line stickers to raise awareness
An environmental nonprofit organization based in this eastern Japan city has created endangered animal stickers for the Line free messaging app to raise awareness about the creatures ahead of World Wildlife Day on March 3.
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#1336142022-03-01
Cape Town currently facing an invasion of alien wasp species – here’s why
Over the past few months, with the warmer summer temperatures, the City of Cape Town has been battling with an invasion of yellow and black insects, commonly known as the German wasp (Vespula germanica) and European Paper wasp (Polistes dominula).
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#1336152022-03-01
Chocolate frog? New burrowing frog species unearthed in Amazon’s rare peatlands
A photo of an odd-looking amphibian drew attention on Twitter last week, where it was described as a “smooth lil fella”, compared to a melted tootsie roll candy, and likened to the chocolate frogs from Harry Potter.
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#1336162022-03-01
Watch Snake Carry Frog and Mice on Its Back in Floodwater
Footage has captured the moment a snake served as a makeshift life-raft for frogs and mice amid severe floods in Australia.
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#1336172022-03-01
IPCC report says climate change is causing dangerous disruption to nature
Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have played a leading role in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released today.
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#1336182022-03-01
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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#1336192022-03-01
Floodplain project taps Indigenous knowledge, drawing international eyes
Around 100 people tuned in last week to the launch of a five-part webinar series to learn how Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, southwest of London, and its partners developed a collaborative approach to floodplain mapping.
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#1336202022-03-01
Living Rivers Initiative to work on restoring Pakistan’s backbone ecology: Amin
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam on Tuesday said the Living Rivers Initiative aimed to revive the dying biodiversity of River Indus would work on restoring the country’s backbone of ecology.