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#1334332022-02-22
Bringing back large mammals boosts restoration of entire ecosystems: Study
A new study that looks at global opportunities for the restoration, reintroduction and rewilding of large mammals across the world’s terrestrial ecoregions found that just 15% of the world’s land area supports intact large mammal assemblages.
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#1334342022-02-22
Giraffe populations are on the rise across Africa for the first time in years, according to a major new study.
The survey found there are now around 117,173 giraffes across 21 different African countries – a rise of one-fifth on the last major census, undertaken in 2015.
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#1333512022-02-21
Tension and trade-offs between protecting biodiversity and avoiding climate change
Land just upstream of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota was leased for copper mining — until the plan was recently scrapped.
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#1333522022-02-21
How the climate crisis is threatening our energy supply
At the end of January, torrential rains poured over parts of the South American state of Ecuador. As a result, an oil pipeline in the eastern province of Napo in the Amazon region was severely damaged — thousands of liters of oil began to leak out and contaminate the surrounding soil.
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#1333532022-02-21
Minister of Climate Change and Environment Explores Potential Synergies in Climate Action, Clean Energy, Food Security During Germany Visit - mid-east.info
Her Excellency Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri presents UAE's vision for inclusive COP28 at Munich Security Conference. Dubai, UAE: Her Excellency Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment, wrapped up a four-day visit to Germany, where she discussed opportunitie ...
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#1333542022-02-21
Fast Fashion Pollution and Climate Change
‘Fast Fashion’ is a term used to define a highly profitable and exploitative business model that is “based on copying and replicating high end fashion designs”. The clothes are mass-produced, with workers often working in inhumane conditions, and are purposefully designed to be frail with a limi ...
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#1333562022-02-21
Why urban greening isn’t a panacea for extreme weather under climate change
Urban greening is often touted as a way to tackle both heatwaves and floods in cities. This includes through green roofs, living walls, vegetated urban spaces, private and community gardens, habitat corridors, bushland and parks.
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#1333572022-02-21
The secret ultraviolet colours of sunflowers attract pollinators and preserve water
Flowers are one of the most striking examples of diversity in nature, displaying myriad combinations of colours, patterns, shapes and scents. They range from colourful tulips and daisies, to fragrant frangipani and giant, putrid-smelling corpse flowers.
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#1333582022-02-21
Drone photography raises concerns for Sri Lanka’s flamingo flock
With reddish-pink, brushstroke-like smudges on its wings, legs and large downward-curved beak, the greater flamingo is a stunning bird to watch, particularly in flight as part of a large flock.
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#1333592022-02-21
Afro-Caribbean community safeguards pristine oceans with new protected area
An Afro-Caribbean community on the southwest coast of Colombia has helped establish a new marine protected area that will create more sustainable fishing and hunting practices while ensuring that one of the country’s most undisturbed ecosystems withstands outside threats of deforestation and pol ...
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#1333602022-02-21
Spain's ingenious water maze
Invented by the region's Moorish rulers 1,200 years ago, Valencia's irrigation system is now a model for sustainable farming.
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#1333612022-02-21
Cambridge University Botanic Garden's 'Newton's apple tree' falls in storm
Cambridge University Botanic Garden has lost its "Newton's apple tree" to Storm Eunice. Garden curator Dr Samuel Brockington said the tree was planted in 1954 and had stood at the Brookside entrance of the botanic garden for 68 years.
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#1333622022-02-21
Thousands of endangered Burren pine trees planted in Clare as part of biodiversity project
More than 7,000 native Irish trees, including 1,800 saplings of the endangered Burren pine, have been distributed to landowners in County Clare as part of a new biodiversity initiative that aims to create dozens of mini woodlands across the county.
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#1333632022-02-21
Seychelles conducts census on critically endangered sheath-tailed bat
A census is underway by the Ministry of Environment to determine the current situation of the Seychelles sheath-tailed bat, an endemic species which is on the brink of extinction.
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#1333642022-02-21
New research details complexity of growing risks to endangered pangolins
A dietary delicacy in some countries in Africa and Asia, the pangolin is also prized for its scales, which are used in folk and traditional remedies to treat various ailments.
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#1333662022-02-21
170 Wild Elephants to be Auctioned in Namibia Due to Uncontrollable Growing Population
Namibia intends to sell off 170 of its elephants in order to control herds that were progressively colliding with humanity in December 2020 and has claims to over 24,000 elephants.
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#1333672022-02-21
A mild-mannered biker triggered a huge debate over humans’ role in climate change – in the early 20th century
In 1938, a British engineer and amateur meteorologist made a discovery that set off a fierce debate about climate change. Scientists had known for decades that carbon dioxide could trap heat and warm the planet. But Guy Callendar was the first to connect human activities to global warming.
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#1333682022-02-21
OPINION: It’s time to turn climate change adaptation ambition into action
COP26 saw an overdue recognition of the need to prioritise adaptation to climate change, with countries committing to double 2019 levels of adaptation finance by 2025, which is the first ever globally agreed adaptation finance goal.
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#1333692022-02-21
Feeling the Heat: The Grilled Earth
Glaciers are disappearing, gigantic craters form in Siberia as the previously frozen ground thaws, the sea is threatening to swallow entire islands, floods cause large damages to people and economy, heat waves periodically destroy crops and can reach dangerous levels for people’s health.
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#1333702022-02-21
Hadrian's Wall under threat from climate change on 1900th birthday
For almost two millennia, it has withstood man and beast. But, as it celebrates its 1,900th anniversary this year, archaeologists fear it may be facing its most dangerous foe: climate change.
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#1333712022-02-21
UK wildlife campaigners call for legal right to access nature for all
Everyone in the UK should be legally entitled to equal access to nature, wildlife campaigners will tell the government.
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#1333722022-02-21
Emirati official joins advisory board of UN's ecosystem restoration project
A leading Emirati environmentalist has joined the advisory board of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration project. Dr Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri, secretary general of the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, said she was honoured to be selected.
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#1333732022-02-21
President of Seychelles nominated as patron of Ocean Decade Alliance
Seychelles has taken another step to reaffirm its contribution to ocean science and leadership among small island developing states with the nomination of President Wavel Ramkalawan as one of the two patrons of the Ocean Decade Alliance.
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#1333742022-02-21
Oceans' mysterious music: Researchers investigate underwater sounds
Everybody is familiar with melodious songs of whales or the chirps of dolphins, but scientists have discovered much more music made by underwater life, some of which has eluded explanation for some time
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#1333752022-02-21
Flipflopi sets sail on expedition to map impact of marine litter in the Western Indian Ocean
There is limited data on the extent and impact of marine litter in the Western Indian Ocean region; Flipflopi and partners will map the extent of marine litter in the ocean and around the UNESCO heritage site of the Lamu archipelago; the baseline study will be used to inform potential interventi ...
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#1333772022-02-21
India, France agree on Roadmap on Blue Economy and Ocean Governance
India and France have agreed on a Roadmap on Blue Economy and Ocean Governance with the aim to contribute to scientific knowledge and ocean conservation and ensure that the ocean remains a global common, based on the rule of law.
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#1333782022-02-21
Five ways AI is saving wildlife – from counting chimps to locating whales
There’s a strand of thinking, from sci-fi films to Stephen Hawking that suggests artificial intelligence (AI) could spell doom for humans. But conservationists are increasingly turning to AI as an innovative tech solution to tackle the biodiversity crisis and mitigate climate change.
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#1333792022-02-21
Rare Persian leopard held in Kurdistan zoo faces uncertain future
A rare Persian leopard being temporarily held in an Iraqi zoo faces an uncertain future, wildlife specialists fear. Six weeks ago the male leopard was caught in a trap set by a villager who had recently lost dozens of goats in the mountainous Batifa area of northern Duhok province, in the autono ...
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#1333802022-02-21
‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo
A trio of bison has gathered around a fourth animal’s carcass, and Jimmy Doyle is worried. “I really hope we’re not on the brink of some disease outbreak,” said Doyle, who manages the Wolakota Buffalo Range here in a remote corner of south-western South Dakota in one of the country’s poorest cou ...
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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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#1333822022-02-21
Labour’s greening strategy: Underground parking and new open parks
The Labour Party vowed to increase urban public spaces by putting car parks underground if given a fresh mandate in the coming general election.
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#1333832022-02-21
Digging into the finer details of retired cranberry bog restorations
Cranberry farming was once a prominent industry in southeastern Massachusetts, but now that the cranberry industry is shifting to other areas of the United States and Canada, many New England cranberry bogs are retiring, and efforts are underway to restore some of them as wetlands—a nature-based ...
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#1333842022-02-21
Improving the robustness of engineered bacteria to nutrient stress
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Hamburg have engineered bacteria with internal nutrient reserves that can be accessed when needed to survive extreme environmental conditions. The findings, published in ACS Synthetic Biology, pave the way for more robust biotechnologies based on ...
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#1333852022-02-21
Research suggests male birds have stronger immune system than females
While human males tend to suffer more than females from infectious diseases like COVID-19 or flu, for birds it's the males that appear to have stronger immune systems, suggests a new study led by the University of Bath.
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#1333862022-02-21
African wild dogs have a feeding queue. Why it makes sense
Whether it's a fancy dinner party or a routine family lunch, meals can be highly social affairs. And patterns of food sharing—or otherwise—can shape or describe relationships.
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#1333872022-02-21
Low-input, drought-tolerant guar crop could improve wheat production
In a season plagued by drought and high fertilizer prices, Texas A&M AgriLife scientists appreciate what guar provides in a crop rotation.
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#1333882022-02-21
Camera trap surveys provide new insights into two threatened Annamite endemics in Viet Nam and Laos
Effective conservation strategies are required to address accelerating extinction rates across the globe. In order to be effective, these strategies need to rely on scientific knowledge about ecology, distribution and population status of threatened species.
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#1333892022-02-21
Why Storm Eunice was so severe, and will violent wind storms become more common?
The UK Met Office has issued two red weather warnings in as many months for strong winds. These are the highest threat levels meteorologists can announce, and are the first wind-only red warnings to be issued since 2016's Storm Gertrude.
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#1333902022-02-21
Drilling of oldest ice on Earth underway
The first ice core drilling campaign of Beyond Epica-Oldest Ice has been successfully completed at the remote Little Dome C site in Antarctica—one of the most extreme places on Earth.
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#1333912022-02-21
Satellite laser altimetry helps monitor global lake water changes in early 21st century
As the main freshwater resources on Earth's surface, lakes play an important role in maintaining the stability of the ecosystem and the sustainable development of human society.
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#1333922022-02-21
Lake Michigan ice coverage may be nearing its peak as lake levels continue to drop
Ice coverage may be nearing its peak throughout the Great Lakes in a season that has trended closer to average than originally forecast, as Lake Michigan's water levels are expected to continue their decline well below the string of monthly record highs reached a few years ago.
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#1333932022-02-21
Bacteria upcycle carbon waste into valuable chemicals
Bacteria are known for breaking down lactose to make yogurt and sugar to make beer. Now researchers led by Northwestern University and LanzaTech have harnessed bacteria to break down waste carbon dioxide (CO2) to make valuable industrial chemicals.
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#1333942022-02-21
New species of spinosaurid dinosaur discovered in Portugal
A pair of researchers affiliated with both the NOVA School of Science and Technology and Museu da Lourinhã, has found evidence that suggests a group of fossils found 23 years ago in Portugal are the remains of a new species of Spinosaurus—the type of dinosaur featured prominently in the movie Ju ...
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#1333952022-02-21
'Light of a million suns' key to unlocking secrets of healthier and safer rice
Swinburne scientists are using a football field-sized synchrotron light facility to examine individual grains of rice to help enhance global food security, nutritional value and the food safety of cereal grains.
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#1333962022-02-21
Trade-offs exist in hydraulic and mechanical traits of plants in Chinese savanna
Evergreen and deciduous species coexist in tropical dry forests and savannas. Previous studies have shown that they exhibit divergent strategies of drought tolerance and hydraulic safety under prolonged seasonal drought.
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#1333972022-02-21
Consistent guidance needed during euthanasia of stranded cetaceans
New research reviewing the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for euthanasia of stranded cetaceans across Australasia has highlighted the need for more detailed guidance and consistency in end-of-life decisions and euthanasia procedures.
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#1333982022-02-21
Birch trees remove microplastics from the soil
With the help of trees, microplastic-polluted soils could be remediated. For the first time, researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have shown that birch trees absorb microplastics through their roots during the growth phase.
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#1333992022-02-21
One fish, two fish: New goby species from the Philippines just dropped
Serendipity underlies some of the greatest scientific discoveries. And it was certainly at play in 2015 when a team of biologists stopped off to relax at a popular waterfall on the Philippine island of Palawan after spending a long day surveying nearby streams to document the island’s freshwater ...
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#1334002022-02-21
Vinexposium announces detailed plans for Bordeaux Wine Week
In a press conference held during last week’s Paris show, Vinexposium revealed plans for a sharp focus on sustainability and technology during the upcoming Bordeaux Wine Week.
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#1334012022-02-21
The Surprising Biodiversity Hidden in the World’s Fragile Mangrove Forests
Mangrove forests protect coastal ecosystems around the world from erosion and serve as habitats for an amazing array of fish, birds and other species. But because of the groves’ low levels of plant diversity, scientists have long assumed these famously twisty, salt-tolerant trees didn’t play hos ...