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#1196352019-01-28
'Radical rethink' needed to tackle obesity, hunger, climate: report
To defeat the intertwined pandemics of obesity, hunger and climate change, governments must curb the political influence of major corporations, said a major report Monday calling for a 'global treaty' similar to one for tobacco control.
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#1216612019-07-22
'Restore UK bogs' to tackle climate change
Restoring peat moors degraded by farming may prove a relatively inexpensive way of tackling climate change, a report shows.
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#1276382021-03-10
'Right to repair' law to come in this summer
Appliances such as fridges, washing machines and TVs should last longer and be cheaper to run under new rules. Ministers have confirmed that from the summer consumers will have a right to repair on goods they buy. They are keeping a promise t
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#1199502019-02-14
'Seeing' tails help sea snakes avoid predators
New research has revealed the fascinating adaptation of some Australian sea snakes that helps protect their vulnerable paddle-shaped tails from predators.
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#1352162022-07-05
'Serious risk of extinction': Macadamias prove a tough nut to crack
Australian Institute of Botanical Science researchers are working with the University of Queensland to figure out world-first ways to store wild and cultivated macadamia genetic material and ultimately ensure the long-term survival of the species.
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#1249252020-03-30
'Seven Worlds, One Planet' premieres on BBC World
'Seven Worlds, One Planet' tells unknown, unseen, and unexpected wildlife stories, while it also uncovers the fundamental truth about what makes each one of our seven continents unique.
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#1329322022-02-03
'Smart' greenhouses could slash electricity costs
A new, internet-connected lighting system for greenhouses could sharply reduce a farmer's electrical bill, according to a study by University of Georgia researchers.
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#1269112021-02-08
'Spooning poo': how five Eiffel Towers' worth of sea cucumber poo helps sustain a Queensland reef
“In the wee hours of the morning … we weren’t too excited to be spooning poo,” reef ecologist Dr Vincent Raulot says. But that’s exactly what he and a team of researchers did to calculate out how much poop was excreted by an estimated 3 million sea cucumbers on the 20 sq km Heron Island coral re ...
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#1273712021-02-25
'Strange pale penguin': rare yellow and white bird discovered among king penguins in Atlantic
A pale yellow-feathered king penguin spotted among hundreds of thousands of animals crammed on to a beach in South Georgia has sent the nature-loving world into a frenzy.Belgian photographer Yves Adams was on a two-month expedition to the Antarctic peninsula when he captured the unusually-colour ...
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#1186152018-10-22
'Super-sized' mice threaten seabird colonies with extinction
Super-sized mice are killing millions of seabird chicks on a remote island in the South Atlantic, threatening some rare species with extinction. According to a study from the RSPB, the mice have learned to eat the eggs and chicks of the many millions of birds that make Gough Island their home.
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#1196332019-01-28
'Superbug gene' found in one of the most remote places on Earth
Antibiotic-Resistant Genes (ARGs) that were first detected in urban India have been found 8,000 miles away in one of the last 'pristine' places on earth, a new study has shown.
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#1188402018-11-08
'Support your local school and biodiversity'
The future’s looking bright as a growing number of schools jump on board Towards Predator-Free Taranaki, safeguarding our local biodiversity. "Having students, teachers and school communities on board is a massive boost, helping unite our community," says Toby Shanley, ecologist and Towards Pred ...
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#1247832020-03-20
'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past 40 years
The next time you eat sashimi, nigiri or other forms of raw fish, consider doing a quick check for worms. A new study led by the University of Washington finds dramatic increases in the abundance of a worm that can be transmitted to humans who eat raw or undercooked seafood
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#1244922020-03-03
'Sustainable gardening' includes many eco-friendly practices
"Sustainable" is one of gardening's trendiest buzzwords, yet it carries a range of definitions. Just what does it mean in practical terms, and how important is it to the average gardener?
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#1253112020-04-29
'Sweet City': the Costa Rica suburb that gave citizenship to bees, plants and trees
“Pollinators were the key,” says Edgar Mora, reflecting on the decision to recognise every bee, bat, hummingbird and butterfly as a citizen of Curridabat during his 12-year spell as mayor.
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#1253382020-04-30
'Sweet City': the Costa Rica suburb that gave citizenship to bees, plants and trees
“Pollinators were the key,” says Edgar Mora, reflecting on the decision to recognise every bee, bat, hummingbird and butterfly as a citizen of Curridabat during his 12-year spell as mayor.
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#1241572020-02-13
'Tangled ball of issues': Why geoengineering our climate raises serious ethical, scientific challenges
As global carbon emissions continue to rise despite warnings from the scientific community, there's been increased interest in a controversial method to potentially mitigate the rise in Earth's temperature: Geoengineering.
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#1200782019-02-25
'Terrifying’: There’s a rapid loss of biodiversity that’s placing global food supplies at risk of ‘irreversible collapse’
A groundbreaking report by the United Nations highlighting the rapid, widespread loss of many of the world’s plant and animal species should be on the front page of every newspaper in the world, argued climate action and food access advocates on Friday.
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#1249902020-04-02
'Thank you Greta': natural solutions to UK flooding climb the agenda
Here is ponding on nearly every field in the valley where the rivers Severn and Vyrnwy meet on the English-Welsh border. Swollen rivers have been sluggishly sitting in the valley for months. Inhabitants’ attempts to protect their homes from flooding are part of a losing battle played out across ...
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#1245302020-03-05
'The Automatic Earth' is 'confrontational' new music about climate change
Composer Steven Bryant of Durham, North Carolina, is worried about global warming, and he’s expressing his anxiety through a recent composition.
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#1316482021-11-11
'The Fragile Paradise': Planet Earth's turbulent times
As the COP26 climate summit comes to an end, a unique photography exhibition in the refurbished Oberhausen Gasometer in Germany depicts the beauty of planet Earth — and the threat posed to it by humans.
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#1257742020-11-19
'The Greatest Shoal on Earth': Protecting South Africa's sardine run
From above, it looks like a vast oil spill spreading across the ocean. It's been called the "Greatest Shoal on Earth" and it's one of the planet's biggest migrations in terms of biomass.
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#1199582019-02-15
'The beginning of great change': Greta Thunberg hails school climate strikes
Greta Thunberg is hopeful the student climate strike on Friday can bring about positive change, as young people in more and more countries join the protest movement she started last summer as a lone campaigner outside the Swedish parliament
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#1215682019-07-12
'The biggest problem is greed' says conservationist Jane Goodall
A tireless advocate for conservation and one of the world's most prominent primatologists, Jane Goodall travels 300 days a year, explaining why it's important to protect our environment and wildlife.
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#1252542020-04-28
'The bliss of a quiet period': lockdown is a unique chance to study the nature of cities
Empty streets and skies let the birds be heard and leave animals free to roam as well as allowing scientists to examine how humans change urban biodiversity.
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#1195192019-01-21
'The great dying'
Forget the K-Pg extinction that led to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 million-years-ago - the most devastating mass extinction in Earth’s history occurred 251 million-years-ago at the end of the Permian.
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#1232522019-12-04
'The message of urgency cannot be overstated,' EU environment body warns
The EU is not on track to meeting the vast majority of environmental targets for 2020—and the outlook for 2030 and 2040 is even bleaker. This is the devastating verdict of the groundbreaking State of the Environment Report 2020 published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
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#1303912021-09-14
'The pigs can smell man': How decimation of Borneo's rainforests threatens both hunters and hunted
For more than 40,000 years, Indigenous communities in Borneo have hunted and eaten bearded pigs—huge, nomadic animals that roam the island in Southeast Asia. These 100kg creatures are central to the livelihood and culture of some Bornean peoples—in fact, some hunters rarely talk of anything else.
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#1210492019-05-14
'The planet is on fire': Bill Nye driven to F-bomb rant by climate change
The beloved science educator and children’s show host appeared on Last Week Tonight to help explain carbon-pricing
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#1337912022-03-08
'The sad reality is many don't survive': How floods affect wildlife, and how you can help them
For over two decades, bull sharks have called a Brisbane golf course home after, it's believed, a flood washed them into the course's lake in 1996.
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#1327862022-01-27
'The smell of death'. Peruvians race to rescue animals as oil spill spreads
Peruvians are racing to save animals caught up in a devastating oil spill that has been blamed on a volcanic explosion near Tonga. Environment Minister Ruben Ramirez has said that some 6,000 barrels of oil were spilled in the incident, which has left oil on 21 beaches.
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#1326342022-01-19
'There's a shift happening': McCain and food's old guard look to the future as climate change threatens crops
Among the flurry of futuristic investments that Canadian French fry empire McCain Foods Ltd. has been making, probably the most interesting has been an indoor lettuce farm.
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#1265822021-01-12
'There's real hope': Dalai Lama discusses climate change with Greta Thunberg – video
The Dalai Lama met climate activist Greta Thunberg virtually on Saturday. The Tibetan spiritual leader said: ‘I heard this young girl from Sweden. I really felt: Oh, there is real hope from our younger generation who really thinking this environment and these things.’
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#1220952019-09-03
'They eat everything in their path': Spain's shellfish farmers turn on starfis
Galicia has agreed to a cull of the creatures, which are turning up in unusually large numbers and feasting on the region’s key export
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#1247432020-03-18
'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?
Mayibout 2 is not a healthy place. The 150 or so people who live in the village, which sits on the south bank of the Ivindo River, deep in the great Minkebe Forest in northern Gabon, are used to occasional bouts of diseases such as malaria, dengue, yellow fever and sleeping sickness. Mostly they ...
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#1195692019-01-24
'Tipping point' risk for Arctic hotspot
A rapid climate shift under way in the Barents Sea could spread to other Arctic regions, scientists warn. The Barents Sea is said to be at a tipping point, changing from an Arctic climate to an Atlantic climate as the water gets warmer.
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#1229112019-11-07
'To truly embed sustainability, businesses must redefine value itself'
That is according to The Capitals Coalition’s chief executive Mark Gough, whose mission is to help support more than 50 businesses as they attempt to integrate their positive and negative impacts on people and the planet with their financial approach.
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#1214062019-06-26
'Triple whammy' threatens UN action on climate change
A "triple whammy" of events threatens to hamper efforts to tackle climate change say UN delegates.
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#1231562019-11-28
'Truly astounding': inside the Farallon Islands' battle against a plague of mice
With more than a thousand mice per acre, an ecosystem is under threat. But poison could make things even worse
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#1198042019-02-06
'Twilight Zone' could help preserve shallow water reefs
Corals lurking in deeper, darker waters could one day help to replenish shallow water reefs under threat from ocean warming and bleaching events, according to researchers.
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#1236852020-01-13
'Uncharted territory' as species likely go extinct in bushfires
Species have likely already gone extinct in Australia's catastrophic bushfires and experts warn it may take a decade to find out which ones due to lack of staff and expertise. The nation is in “uncharted territory” as it plots a recovery for native flora and fauna, which will need human interven ...
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#1335722022-02-28
'Uneven' climate change adaptation measures impacting 3.6b people: UN
The world's leading climate scientists have warned that inadequate adaptation efforts in regions facing the serious impact of climate change along with over exploitation of natural resources, rapid urbanization and social inequalities will have a devastating effect on 3.6 billion people and nature.
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#1291972021-06-10
'Vegan spider silk' provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics
Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products.
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#1192812019-01-08
'Voice of the forest': George the snail, last of his kind, dies at age 14
As New Year’s Day broke in the Hawaiian Islands, one rare creature was not there to emerge from his shell and greet it: George, the last snail of his kind and a local celebrity, was dead at age 14.
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#1231052019-11-25
'Wake-up call': Europe off track on all Sustainable Development Goals, report warns
Every country in Europe is failing against global sustainability targets, a stark United Nations-backed assessment has warned this week, sparking calls for EU political leaders to urgently draw up an ambitious plans to address climate change, pollution, biodiversity and overconsumption across th ...
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#1305202021-09-22
'Walk the talk' after food systems summit, scientists urge
Leaders from more than 85 countries will pledge their commitment to transforming food systems at the UN Food Systems Summit this week, but scientists say close monitoring of their actions beyond the talks will be the true test of success.
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#1316762021-11-15
'Watered-down hope': Experts wanted more from climate pact
While world leaders and negotiators are hailing the Glasgow climate pact as a good compromise that keeps a key temperature limit alive, many scientists are wondering what planet these leaders are looking at.
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#1292262021-06-11
'We Have History': Kenya's Last Sacred 'Kaya' Forests Need Saving From Rampant Mining
Wearing a crown of cowry shells and traditional regalia, Hillary Mwatsuma intoned a prayer to the ancestors who have been laid to rest in Kaya Kauma, one of 45 sacred forested villages scattered along Kenya’s southern coast, since the 16th century. The thick canopy encircling the ancient kayas, ...
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#1260832020-12-08
'We Now Need to Do the Impossible.' How Greta Thunberg Is Fighting for a Greener Post-Pandemic World
Like millions of other students around the world, Greta Thunberg is still getting used to attending school virtually. But on a Sunday morning in late November, the 17-year-old Swedish climate activist—named TIME’s Person of the Year in 2019, the youngest titleholder ever— is enjoying having some ...
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#1226342019-10-11
'We are not alone' in fighting climate change, says Freetown mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Over 90 mayors of the world's biggest cities have signed a Global Green New Deal in Copenhagen this week.