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#1252752020-04-28
‘Insect apocalypse’ not so clear-cut
Love them or hate them, recent reports of an “insect apocalypse” sounded alarm bells around the world as conservationists warned of dire repercussions for people and ecosystems. But a wide-scoping meta-analysis of 166 long-term surveys across 1676 global sites shows the decline has considerable ...
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#1270992021-02-16
‘Indigenous People Respect All Species’
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist and member of Chad’s pastoralist Mbororo community who believes in twinning traditional knowledge with science to tackle ecosystem challenges.
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#1353852022-07-20
‘In 10 years, we might not have forests’: DRC struggles to halt charcoal trade – a photo essay
Every few seconds a handful of reddish clay is scraped out of a bucket, rolled briskly into a ball, coated in charcoal dust and left in the sun to dry. For the past three years, Nzigire Ntavuna, 39, has been making these balls on the outskirts of Kahuzi-Biega national park, in the rainforest in ...
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#1255282020-11-03
‘Implementation should begin immediately’: Elizabeth Mrema on a global deal for biodiversity
On the face of it, global efforts to prevent the extinction of one million species are not progressing well. Out of 20 targets agreed by governments in 2010, none were met, and this year’s much hyped “super year for nature” has been hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, with all global negotiations stalled.
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#1270132021-02-11
‘If I can do it, so can you’: women scientists on the power of education to reach gender equality
Women are extremely under-represented in science, but a UN research centre in The Netherlands is trying to address the gender imbalance, by raising awareness of the leading role that women researchers play in tackling global problems, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
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#1339942022-04-12
‘I was enjoying a life that was ruining the world’: can therapy treat climate anxiety?
Pete Knapp, 36, who lives in London, has visited North Korea, travelled overland from Kenya to Cape Town, motorcycled through Japan and Cambodia and trekked by horse through China. Until a few years ago, “I felt invincible,” he says. He had never experienced anxiety, or worried about the climate ...
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#1245952020-03-10
‘I swapped my gun for binoculars’: India’s hunters turn to conservation
It is Sunday in Kohima, the capital of Nagaland, and like many Naga, Gwasinlo Thong has spent the morning in church. A tall, elegant man in a crisp navy suit, he hands over a bag of guava from his garden as we sit down to talk.
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#1322872022-01-04
‘I saw a big set of white teeth coming towards me’: the people who survived terrifying wild animal attacks
Although, mercifully, still rare, there are signs that wild animal attacks on humans are increasing. Research from the scientific journal Nature found that, as our urban areas further expand into the territories of carnivorous animals, attacks on pets, livestock and sometimes humans have been on ...
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#1227852019-10-29
‘I make tagliatelle with them’: will acorns become the next ‘superfood’?
While foragers harvest mushrooms, nettles and berries, the humble acorn has long been ignored, in the UK at least. That could all be about to change. The Wall Street Journal reports that in South Korea, acorns have achieved “superfood” status, with people devouring “acorn noodles, jelly and powd ...
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#1315352021-11-08
‘I get scared’: the young activists sounding the alarm from climate tipping points
For millions of young people around the world, climate breakdown is something they have known their entire lives. Many live in regions that are particularly at risk of being affected by tipping points - parts of the Earth’s system where small changes, such as increased temperatures, could lead t ...
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#1333812022-02-21
‘I forget everything’: the benefits of nature for mental health
During Covid lockdowns, Sharon Powell felt alone. She was caring for her father, 90, who was deteriorating from Parkinson’s disease and dementia, and looking after him had become increasingly difficult.
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#1340692022-04-14
‘I dream of bees’: one boy’s encounter with a swarm in Sicily led to a lifetime’s devotion
It was love at first sight when five-year-old Carlo Amodeo first saw a swarm of black bees. He could not stop thinking about them and every night for a week he had the same dream: of building a house for the bees made from wood using his toy carpentry set.
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#1238272020-01-21
‘I am horrified’: Scientist who linked climate change with bushfires in 1987 says it’s not too late
A scientist who predicted our current bushfire crisis four decades ago is ‘horrified’ we did not listen to his warnings on climate change. In 1987 then-CSIRO scientist Dr Tom Beer pioneered the world’s first research into the link between climate change and worsening fire seasons.
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#1325822022-01-18
‘Huge blow’ for tiger conservation as two of the big cats killed in Thailand
Authorities in Thailand have arrested five suspects for killing two Indochinese tigers in a protected area in the country’s west; the suspects said the tigers had been killing and eating their cattle.
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#1186482018-10-24
‘Greener and richer’ P4G: Denmark rocks the boat for UN goals
On Saturday October 20, Danish PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen celebrated the launch of his Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G) with heads of state from South Korea, Ethiopia, Vietnam and the Netherlands. In co-operation with the World Economic Forum (WEF), P4G is mobilising proj ...
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#1329692022-02-07
‘Giant obstacle course’: call to reroute major shipping lanes to protect blue whales
Scientists and conservation groups are calling for one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes to be rerouted in an effort to protect the world’s largest animal.
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#1323342022-01-06
‘Ghost’ orchid that grows in the dark among new plant finds
A ghost orchid that grows in complete darkness, an insect-trapping tobacco plant and an “exploding firework” flower are among the new species named by scientists in the last year. The species range from a voodoo lily from Cameroon to a rare tooth fungus unearthed near London, UK.
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#1189022018-12-06
‘Gene drive’ research to fight diseases can proceed cautiously, U.N. group decides
Scientists hoping to fight diseases with genetically engineered organisms that spread their genes in the wild will be able to proceed cautiously under an agreement reached this week. That was the compromise outcome of a protracted debate, conducted in Egypt at a major U.N. conference on biodiver ...
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#1255862020-11-06
‘Future generations will judge us’: Senator urges action on biodiversity crisis
A Green Party Senator became emotional as she highlighted the biodiversity crisis the world faces as a result of climate change. Senator Róisín Garvey was winding up a Seanad debate on biodiversity in which her party, which is in Government, called for action as soon as possible on programme for ...
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#1335812022-02-28
‘Fossil fuels are choking humanity’: Major UN report sounds the alarm on climate impacts
The world’s leading climate scientists on Monday warned human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature, with people and ecosystems least able to cope being the hardest hit.
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#1292382021-06-11
‘Fossil fascism,’ homeless great apes and a landmark ruling against Big Oil
Thousands of participants from around the world joined us for GLF Africa, the world’s first digital conference devoted entirely to African drylands. Here’s what happened across the two-day event.
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#1329852022-02-08
‘Forever chemicals’: what are PFAS and what risk do they pose?
PFAS are a family of thousands of human-made substances – nicknamed “forever chemicals” because they do not break down in the environment – that have been widely used since the 1940s in a huge range of everyday consumer products and industrial processes.
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#1286832021-05-17
‘Farmers are making a significant contribution to biodiversity’
Marking the start of National Biodiversity Week, Minister Pippa Hackett acknowledged the contribution of farmers in maintaining biodiversity on their land.
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#1317112021-11-16
‘Farmers are digging their own graves’: true cost of growing food in Spain’s arid south
A wetland without water is a melancholy sight. The fish are dead, the birds have flown and a lifeless silence hangs over the place. “Everything you see around you should be under water,” says Ecologists in Action’s Rafa Gosálvez from the lookout in Las Tablas de Daimiel national park.
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#1306122021-10-06
‘Eye-watering’: climate change disasters will cost Australia billions each year, study finds
Climate change-related disasters will cost Australia $73bn a year by 2060, even if action to curb emissions is taken now, a report has found.
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#1324302022-01-12
‘Extraordinarily warm’: winter is fastest-heating season in most of US
American winters are rapidly warming and December 2021 was no exception. In New York, last month’s average temperature was 43.8F (6.5C) – 4.7F above the 1991-to-2020 average according to a recent analysis by Climate Central. The American south had an especially warm December, with Shreveport, Lo ...
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#1342512022-04-28
‘Existential Threat’: Indigenous Leaders Urge Citigroup to Stop Backing Amazon Oil
Indigenous leaders have called on Citigroup to stop financing oil and gas projects in the Amazon, saying the bank’s activities contradict its climate pledges by putting the threatened ecosystem at greater risk.
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#1327472022-01-25
‘Evolve’ host Patrick Aryee talks squid glue, biomimicry and environmental ethics
By 2050, it is thought that two-thirds of the world’s population might be facing a scarcity of fresh, potable water. That’s a crisis that extends beyond the poorest, developing countries, but it is also one that “speaks to our ethics and what our responsibilities are to each other,” says Patrick ...
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#1272402021-02-22
‘Everything on this planet is connected’: Q&A with WWF’s Marco Lambertini
As the world works to emerge from the devastation and hardship brought by the pandemic, there has been much talk about the recovery being an opportunity to drive transformative change toward a more sustainable, equitable society that recognizes that human well-being is underpinned by a healthy p ...
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#1334802022-02-24
‘Everything is on fire’: Flames rip through Iberá National Park in Argentina
The fires were still several miles away, but Talía Zamboni and her colleagues wanted to work fast. Early in the morning on Feb. 23, they traveled to San Alonso Island in Argentina’s Iberá National Park, where several giant river otters were being housed in a large enclosure, awaiting their relea ...
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#1352272022-07-05
‘Every year it gets worse’: on the frontline of the climate crisis in Bangladesh
Ever since she was a little girl, Amina Ahmed has been afraid of the water. Growing up in Sylhet, north-east of Bangladesh, the heavy rainfall that typically occurs during monsoon season would make her anxious.
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#1331712022-02-14
‘Every time the tide recedes, it’s a new world’: Mumbai’s marine life revealed
A hidden forest of algae sponges and hydroids photographed at low tide; a stunning night image of green button polyps under ultraviolet light; and a beautiful shot of a honeycomb moray eel stuck on a ledge on a rocky shore.
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#1237292020-01-15
‘Emirati Queen Bee’ for UAE’s food security is here
The UAE is crossbreeding bees to develop a resilient Queen that can endure the harsh desert climate and sustain crucial pollination rates crucial for the country’s food security, Gulf News can exclusively reveal.
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#1314062021-11-02
‘Either we stop it, or it stops us’: Top quotes from COP26 climate change summit
The summit comes six years after the Paris Agreement was signed by over 190 countries to limit rising global temperatures to well below 2 degree C with a view of reaching 1.5 degree C.
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#1308972021-10-16
‘Ecological civilisation’: an empty slogan or will China act on the environment?
This week, China took charge of hosting a major UN environmental conference for the first time, at the opening of Cop15 in Kunming. The world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter and largest consumer of natural resources might seem a strange choice to host talks to stop the destruction of ecosystems ...
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#1305162021-09-22
‘Ecofeminism is about respect’: the activist working to revolutionise west African farming
Outside Mariama Sonko’s home in the Casamance region of southern Senegal pink shells hang on improvised nets that will be placed in mangroves to provide a breeding spot for oysters.
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#1210962019-05-20
‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up
Worms are wriggling into Earth’s northernmost forests, creating major unknowns for climate-change models.
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#1320162021-12-02
‘Deluge of plastic waste’: US is world’s biggest plastic polluter
At 42m metric tons of plastic waste a year, the US generates more waste than all EU countries combined
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#1293542021-06-16
‘Dead in the water’: key crossbenchers reject Coalition demand to back new environment standards
The Morrison government is attempting to stare down the Senate over changes to conservation laws, warning the wording of controversial new environment standards before parliament is “not negotiable” and will not be strengthened.
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#1324802022-01-13
‘Dancing through the water’: rare sighting of blanket octopus in Great Barrier Reef
Only a handful of people have spotted the dazzling blanket octopus in the wild, making it one of the rarest sights in the marine world.
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#1296552021-07-23
‘Cyborg soil’ reveals the secret microbial metropolis beneath our feet
Dig a teaspoon into your nearest clump of soil, and what you’ll emerge with will contain more microorganisms than there are people on Earth. We know this from lab studies that analyse samples of earth scooped from the microbial wild to determine which forms of microscopic life exist in the world ...
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#1188052018-11-06
‘Cryptic’ Interactions Drive Biodiversity Decline At Edge of Forest Fragments
The fragmentation of tropical forests weakens the effects of the “natural enemies” of some tree species, reducing their ability to maintain biodiversity, a new study published in Nature Communications found.
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#1301042021-08-24
‘Cool pavements’ could cool cities and mitigate climate change
Cities around the world continue to warm and it isn’t just because of a changing climate. Massive volumes of concrete built into large blocks of buildings trap the heat generated by the sun, to which heavy traffic on roads adds yet more heat.
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#1289562021-06-01
‘Compensation on the table’ in talks with cruise ships on anchorage reef destruction
The Government has begun “serious and stringent” talks with cruise ships that berthed off the west coast, seriously damaging coral reefs that are vital to the island’s coastal protection, fisheries, marine life and tourism, according to Minister of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy Kirk Hump ...
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#1222332019-09-16
‘Committed to ensuring biosafety’
Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque yesterday said Bangladesh is committed to ensure biosafety as an adaptor of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity. “We have already adapted and enacted the ‘Biosafety Rules of Bangladesh, 2012’ and ‘Biosafety Guidelin ...
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#1298812021-08-10
‘Code red’: United Nations scientists warn of worsening global warming
Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a code red for humanity.
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#1304822021-09-20
‘Climate crisis on our shores’: Mediterranean countries sign deal after summer of fires
With the catastrophic effects of this summer’s unprecedented wildfires still being counted, leaders from around the Mediterranean – the European region most at risk from climate breakdown – have vowed to intensify their efforts to tackle the challenges posed by extreme weather.
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#1297712021-07-29
‘Climate change has become real’: extreme weather sinks prime US tourism site
At Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border, the water line has dropped to a historic low, taking a heavy toll on the local industry. Chaos erupted at Bill West’s business in Page, Arizona, last week when he was forced to tell dozens of paid clients their summer vacations were either canceled or o ...
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#1353392022-07-15
‘Change is possible’: meet the Gen-Zers who embrace climate optimism
When it comes to the climate, each generation represents a different stage of grief. In the 1960s, we ignored signs of climate change and steamed ahead with big energy. In the 1970s and 1980s, anger began to mount. Some scientists, like physicist Carl Sagan, raised red flags around a changing cl ...
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#1295112021-07-09
‘Change is coming’: UN sets out Paris-style plan to cut extinction rate tenfold
Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement for biodiversity loss.