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#1336032022-02-28
Commissioner Sinkevicius' Opening statement on behalf of the European Union and its Member States at the Resumed session of the 5th United Nations Environment Assembly
Mr President, Madame Executive Director, Excellencies, Distinguished Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my privilege to deliver this statement on behalf of the European Union and its Member States.
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#1336042022-02-28
Poorer nations need $60 bn a year to protect nature: NGOs
Wealthy countries should provide at least $60 billion every year to the world's poorest nations to combat biodiversity loss, an alliance of environment groups said Tuesday.
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#1335552022-02-25
What is the IPCC climate change report – and what does it say?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, charged with publishing regular comprehensive updates of global knowledge on the climate crisis, intended to inform government policymaking. Each “assessment report” takes about five to seven year ...
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#1335202022-02-25
Natural England chair backs ‘biodiversity net gain’ plan to boost wild areas
Demand for nature is exceeding supply but new wildlife areas can be created by regulations to ensure housing estates bring about “biodiversity net gain”, according to the chair of England’s nature watchdog.
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#1335212022-02-25
PFAS pollution led to contamination of US drinking water wells, study finds
Pollution by toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in America’s aquifer system has led to widespread contamination of private and public drinking water wells, data from a new study by the US Geological Survey finds.
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#1335222022-02-25
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including firefall, rock goats and a pack of grey wolves
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#1335232022-02-25
Guest post: How to model society’s response to climate change
How ambitious climate policy will be in the future is key to understanding the scale of climate change impacts we can expect. Yet, the question of how society responds to climate change is not well represented in climate and energy models.
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#1335242022-02-25
Alaska worries for its salmon run as climate change warms Arctic waters
With marine heat waves helping to wipe out some of Alaska’s storied salmon runs in recent years, officials have resorted to sending emergency food shipments to affected communities while scientists warn that the industry’s days of traditional harvests may be numbered.
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#1335252022-02-25
The Macaque Monkeys of Mauritius: An Invasive Alien Species, a Major Export for Research
Macaque monkeys live as both captive and wild animals on the island of Mauritius. The wild population number is estimated at between 25,000 and 35,000 animals, it’s uncertain how many exist in captivity, but the figure is in the tens of thousands.
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#1335262022-02-25
Choosing the right trees for a changing climate
In urban environments, trees are threatened by heatwaves and lack of rain, both predicted to increase in coming decades. Towns and cities are often home to a great diversity of trees, including those with a high tolerance of climate extremes, but species' selection criteria and climate-risk asse ...
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#1335272022-02-25
How do two of the world's biggest carbon emitters join hands to fight climate change
Climate cooperation between China and the U.S. over the next decade is one of the areas in which the two countries have been working together, a promising development since they are two of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
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#1335282022-02-25
Lessons on climate grief from the people of the sea ice
These "people of the sea ice" have endured years of dramatic warming that is ravaging their beloved landscape at the edge of the Arctic, forcing them to reimagine a way of life that goes back centuries.
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#1335292022-02-25
How Climate Change Affects Our Brains
When I was a little girl, my favorite thing to do was to listen to my grandmother’s stories. During mealtimes, we would all sit at the dining table, and I would beg my grandmother to tell me memories from her childhood in Istanbul, Turkey, where I was born and raised.
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#1335302022-02-25
Biodiversity: 30 years of the Natura 2000 network of protected areas and the LIFE programme
To mark 30 years of the Natura 2000 network and the LIFE programme, a Ministerial Conference is taking place at the European Parliament in Strasbourg today, co-organised by the French Presidency of the European Union and the European Commission. EU Ministers and Commissioner for the Environment, ...
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#1335312022-02-25
Refuge of endangered ‘African unicorn’ threatened by mining, poaching, deforestation
Perched in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) near the borders of Uganda and South Sudan, Okapi Wildlife Reserve quietly encompasses some 14,000 square kilometers (5,405 square miles) of rainforest habitat.
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#1335322022-02-25
Pay or punish? Study looks at how to engage with farmers deforesting the Cerrado
During last year’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, more than 140 countries committed to halting and reversing deforestation by 2030. The Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use recognized the critical role of all forest types for biodiversity, sustainable land use, and mitigating a ...
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#1335332022-02-25
Environmental impact of hand-sanitizing practices during the COVID-19 pandemic
The use of hand sanitizing gels and increased hand-washing practices throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the environment and—by extension—public health.
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#1335342022-02-25
Satellite-derived salinity improves Arctic marine circulation prediction
Researchers at the Barcelona Expert Center (BEC) of the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) have proved that satellite-derived salinity improves marine circulation prediction in the Arctic, which, as in the rest of the planet, is directly influenced by this and other parameters such as tempe ...
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#1335352022-02-25
Discovery of ancient underwater landslide could help Middle Eastern nations realize tsunami hazards
An earth scientist from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science discovered evidence of an ancient underwater landslide and associated tsunami in the Gulf of Aqaba, a subsidiary of the Red Sea, that should serve as a warning for many nations in the Middle East.
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#1335362022-02-25
Hidden weaknesses within volcanoes may cause their collapse
Lava domes form at the top of many volcanoes when viscous lava erupts. When they become unstable, they can collapse and cause a hazard. An international team of researchers has analyzed summit dome instabilities at the Merapi Volcano, Indonesia.
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#1335372022-02-25
Scientists share final findings from Tonawanda Coke Soil Study
Scientists from the Tonawanda Coke Soil Study hosted a community meeting on Feb. 24 to share the final results of the research with the public.
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#1335382022-02-25
Listening to everything: How sound reveals an unseen world
Vision is often regarded as first among the human senses, as our eyes are the way most of us come to know the world. However, vision has its limits.
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#1335392022-02-25
Machine learning helps identify climatic thresholds that shape the distribution of natural vegetation
Changing climate brings more frequent and more intense climatic extreme events. It is unclear, however, exactly how climate extremes will affect vegetation distribution in the future. This is an acute question for research in order to be able to mitigate coming extremities and their impact on ve ...
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#1335402022-02-25
World's top banks show minimal clear commitments to shift financing away from fossil fuels, finds revelational study
Big banking is saying little on how they will combat climate change through their financing, shows a new study which finds minimal, clear commitments to aid financing away from fossil fuels.
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#1335412022-02-25
UN Climate Report: How vulnerable are we, and how can we adapt?
How vulnerable is humanity in the face of climate change? And how have people around the world already been impacted? These are some of the questions to be answered on 28 February by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Two researchers from Lund University participated in the fina ...
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#1335422022-02-25
What brain-eating amoebae can tell us about the diversity of life on earth and evolutionary history
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently announced in the journal Current Biology that an amoeba called Naegleria has evolved more distinct sets of tubulins, used for specific cellular processes, than previously thought.
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#1335432022-02-25
Using lasers and a long-term experiment to investigate how deer change a forest canopy
University of Minnesota researchers are using high-frequency lasers to learn more about how deer populations influence forest landscapes. From the far northern forests of Canada, through the temperate forests of the U.S. Midwest, to the tropical forests of Columbia, white-tailed deer are ever–pr ...
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#1335442022-02-25
New species of octocoral: The jewel of Caloundra
Queensland Museum scientists have re-described a species of bright blue octocorals that can only be found on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
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#1335452022-02-25
The insect brain: We froze ants and beetles to learn how they remember their way home
We humans are versatile and accomplished navigators, but insects might have navigation skills that are even better. For them, it's literally a matter of life and death—and that's why we decided to freeze some ants and beetles (don't worry, they still survived) to learn more about how they rememb ...
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#1335462022-02-25
Uniting with the enemy: How microbes protect against pathogens in plants
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have discovered how benign strains of Pseudomonas protect against their harmful bacterial relatives.
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#1335472022-02-25
A fresh view of microbial life in Yellowstone's hot springs
Yellowstone National Park is home to more than 10,000 hydrothermal features. The park's hot springs, geysers, mud pots, and fumaroles are home to trillions of heat-loving microbes.
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#1335482022-02-25
Is regenerative farming an eco wake-up call?
Could regenerative farming be the future of WA food production? The next time you open your pantry or fridge, pick five foods. Do you know where they came from?
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#1335492022-02-25
'Baby boot camp' exercises critically endangered orangutan
The 2-month-old critically endangered orangutan, still so tiny that infant-sized diapers hung loosely in front of his belly, clung tightly to a caretaker's fingers as she lifted him gently from her lap.
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#1335502022-02-25
New state-of-the-art technology collects a unique time series from methane seeps in the Arctic
A new study published in Ocean Science conducted by CAGE Ph.D. candidate Knut Ola Dølven and co-authors presents time-series data from two methane seep sites offshore western Svalbard, in the Arctic.
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#1335512022-02-25
Wildfires are getting worse across the globe. How does California compare?
An alarming new United Nations report warns that the number of extreme wildfires is expected to increase 50% globally by the end of the century, and that governments are largely unprepared for the burgeoning crisis.
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#1335522022-02-25
Scientists identify key regulator of malaria parasite transmission
Malaria remains one of the biggest global public health challenges. It kills a young child every two minutes, more than any other infectious disease.
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#1335532022-02-25
Should we be growing trees in the desert to combat climate change?
Reforestation is one of our best tools to fight the climate crisis. In the tropics, forests have been reported to absorb 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year.
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#1335542022-02-25
Indigenous knowledge ‘gives us a much richer picture’: Q&A with Māori researcher Ocean Mercier
Small islands, big seascapes: that’s how many Pacific Ocean nations are characterized. Aotearoa New Zealand, a country about the size of the U.K. but with the world’s fourth-largest maritime area, is no exception.
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#1334692022-02-24
Does nature hold the answer to sustainability? A look at biomimicry and its practical use within the 3D Printing sphere.
If everything we use comes from natural resources and that natural ecosystems are often described as models of sustainability, does that mean that every 3D printed product inspired by nature is de facto a sustainable product? A conversation with Libonati Flavia, researcher and Associate Professo ...
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#1334702022-02-24
Climate Change Affects Antarctic Silverfish Population in Western Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Silverfish (Pleuragramma antarctica; Notothenioidei) is the only indigenous Southern Ocean fish with a fully pelagic life cycle, accounting for approximately 90% of adult and larval fish biomass in coastal parts of the Southern Ocean.
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#1334712022-02-24
Global warming speeding up world's water cycle
Rising temperatures are accelerating the world's water cycle and triggering natural disasters such as droughts and floods, according to a new report led by Australian researchers.
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#1334722022-02-24
EXPLAINER-As climate change wreaks havoc globally, IPCC report flags ways to adapt
From Madagascar, where hunger is surging after a recent storm destroyed drought-withered crops, to Brazil's historic mountain town of Petropolis, hit by a deluge that has caused about 200 deaths, the impacts of wilder weather are being felt worldwide.
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#1334732022-02-24
Editorial | Climate Change Requires More Than Just Talk
The inaugural Israel Climate Change Conference, held by Haaretz and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, took place Wednesday at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.
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#1334742022-02-24
Climate change may increase wildfires by 50% by 2100, study finds
Thanks in large part to climate change, the world's future will be marked by a dramatic increase in wildfires, according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Program.
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#1334752022-02-24
Climate Damage and the Role of Insurance
As a consequence of climate change, extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heatwaves and storms have increased in frequency and severity. As Domingo Sugranyes of the Pablo VI Foundation says, “global losses from natural disasters in 2020 came to $210 billion, of which $82 billion was i ...
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#1334762022-02-24
Partnerships a pathway for Mekong’s water security
Alongside saline intrusion, they face decreasing water levels and increased insecurity over water as the cumulative effects of climate change, dam development and environmental degradation set in.
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#1334772022-02-24
Scientists are recruiting elephant seals to eavesdrop on whales
Roughly a decade ago, a team of biologists glued audio recording devices onto the backs of a handful of elephant seals on the California coast.
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#1334782022-02-24
World Ocean Summit will bring together ocean community from 1-4 March
Taking place over the course of four days, the virtual week will bring together businesses, scientists, conservationists, governments, investors as well as the civil society to discuss the future of the ocean and what can be done to promote ocean health.
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#1334792022-02-24
Great Barrier Reef project salvages 70,000 coral fragments
There’s fresh hope for the future of the Great Barrier Reef as scientists and tourism operators are working together to grow new coral and repair the damage from mass bleaching.
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#1334812022-02-24
More coffee, less gold: Sumatra farmers alarmed over revival of mine project
Indonesian coffee farmers on the island of Sumatra have spoken out against a plan to mine for gold in an area that overlaps with one of the last known habitats of Sumatran tigers and orangutans.