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#1195112019-01-18
Global audience for nature docs expanding, says David Attenborough
Renowned naturalist David Attenborough said he has seen the interest in natural history and programs about wildlife increase exponentially in recent years.
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#1244572020-03-02
Go Green & Preserve Nature
A short trip to the world’s famous ‘Keoladeo National Park” at Bharatpur, Rajasthan and had some great experiences with the “Sarus Cranes”. Bharatpur is a great place for nature and bird lovers. The early morning mist of winter adds to the allure and photographing the birds as well as mammals su ...
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#1281802021-04-22
Google celebrates Earth Day with a creative doodle
Maintaining its legacy, Google shared a creative doodle on Earth Day, highlighting the importance of planting trees for the planet on Thursday. Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 to raise public awareness about the environment and inspire people to save and protect it. Across the globe.
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#1279132021-04-06
Grade 4 students go on an expedition, publish digital book “Trees of Gurugram”
The Heritage Xperiential Learning School’s Grade 4 students recently went on an expedition “Nature our Teacher” and have published their digital book on Trees of Gurugram.
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#1191542018-12-21
Green schools - climate change lessons
In Gujarat, the Green Schools initiative is giving schoolchildren hands-on experience in nurturing the environment. With the help of basic science, they learn about climate change and biodiversity loss, and explore solutions.
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#1266152021-01-14
Greta Thunberg features on Swedish postage stamp
The environmental activist Greta Thunberg has been featured on a new Swedish postage stamp, in recognition of her work to “preserve Sweden’s unique nature for future generations”.
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#1230492019-11-18
Greta Thunberg is educating and inspiring us on climate change
Several weeks ago, I took a morning hike in Briones Regional Park. The landscape of golden hills dotted with majestic Valley Oaks slopes down to where John Muir, the engineer turned environmentalist, built his home. This Eden, like many others in California, is changing. Reaching the top of a hi ...
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#1222882019-09-19
Greta Thunberg: ‘We are ignoring natural climate solutions’
The protection and restoration of living ecosystems such as forests, mangroves and seagrass meadows can repair the planet’s broken climate but are being overlooked, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have warned in a new short film.
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#1237442020-01-16
Guam high school students to teach importances of coral reefs at training Saturday
Guam high school students will help educate third graders on the importance of coral reefs to our island as part of the 15th year of the Guardians of the Reef program. The young educators will teach elementary schoolers about the threats reefs face, and actions they can take to help preserve the ...
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#1222502019-09-18
Guardian launches new series The Age of Extinction
The Guardian today launches an ambitious year-long project focusing on biodiversity and the variety of life on our planet. The Age of Extinction will report on our current catastrophic species loss and examine solutions to tackle the wildlife extinction crisis
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#1218882019-08-14
Half of UK children can’t identify stinging nettles, study finds
Nearly half of children do not know what brambles, blackberries and bluebells look like
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#1227892019-10-29
Halloween, with a seasonal nod to local biodiversity
What does biodiversity have to do with Halloween? First of all, our beloved tradition of carving Jack-o'-lanterns: pumpkins are pollinated by a specialized bee — the squash bee (Peponapis pruinosa). Without this little bee, there would be no pumpkins or squash.
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#1267792021-02-01
Harvard Book Prize Essay Award 2020: Vincci Chan
The essay prompt was ‘Reflect on what it means to lead an ethical life that respects the world’s magnificent biodiversity. How should we view our everyday actions from what we eat to how we power the planet as being central to leading an ethical life over the next 50 to 100 years?’
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#1229332019-11-08
Has Climate News Coverage Finally Turned a Corner?
Some good news, for a change, about climate change: When hundreds of newsrooms focus their attention on the climate crisis, all at the same time, the public conversation about the problem gets better: more prominent, more informative, more urgent.
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#1215312019-07-10
Higher and Further Education Institutions across the globe declare Climate Emergency
New York, 10 July 2019 - Today, networks representing more than 7,000 higher and further education institutions from 6 continents announced that they are declaring a Climate Emergency, and agreed to undertake a three-point plan to address the crisis through their work with students.
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#1245402020-03-05
Hope Zoo, Natural History Museum Team Up For World Wildlife Day
THE NATURAL History Museum of Jamaica (NHMJ), through its monthly ‘Afternoon with a Scientist’ programme, collaborated with the Hope Zoo in Kingston to stage its commemorative World Wildlife Day presentation to the students of East Street Junior Centre on Tuesday.
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#1244692020-03-03
How Miss Environment is regreening her town in Kenya
Ahead of International Women’s Day, UN Women is celebrating people of every gender, age, ethnicity, race, religion and country, who are driving actions that will create the gender-equal world we all deserve. Meet one example in Kenya.
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#1310282021-10-21
How To Motivate Your Self, And Others To Act On Climate Change, Biodiversity Or Anything Else - Tips From Psychology
This talk may help you if you are thinking about how to motivate both yourself and others, and also governments, to act on climate change, biodiversity loss or indeed anything. The way you might do it instinctively, to focus on all the negatives that need to be fixed, is actually not the best ap ...
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#1259652020-12-02
How are street artists shaping our relationship with the planet?
Street art has come a long way from its 1980s beginnings, when it began as an urban subculture of artistic daredevils spray-painting their imagery on subway cars and building façades in the thick of the night. Now, it’s one of the most popular and high-valued forms of contemporary art, and one o ...
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#1219142019-08-15
How do countries cover climate change? Depends how rich they are.
Deadly heat waves, violent downpours, wildfires that seem to get more intense every year — the climate crisis leaves no part of the globe untouched. But around the world, the media spins warming and its effects differently.
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#1290382021-06-02
How many members can a giant river otter family have? Candid Animal Cam
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the world’s largest otter and largest member of the weasel family: the giant river otter.
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#1288122021-05-25
How many people care about biodiversity and nature loss? Hundreds of millions and counting
The past couple of years have seen a wave of reports on Earth’s biodiversity and its dire state, finding that 1 million species are under threat of extinction and that populations of monitored animals have declined 68 percent since 1970. But how much are these scientific findings making it throu ...
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#1237432020-01-16
How people came to believe that individual choices could save the Earth
It was the late 1980s, and the headlines warned of acid rain, air pollution, and contaminated water. So John Javna, then a writer best known for books found on the back of toilets, traveled from drought-stricken California to Washington, D.C., with his backpack, looking for practical advice on h ...
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#1283082021-04-28
How the loss of biodiversity requires relevance and attention
With climate change now finally at the forefront of financial decision-making, it’s biodiversity that demands more attention from responsible investors, for all our sakes.
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#1216552019-07-22
How to Talk Effectively about Climate Change
Our conversations have been stuck, but a new book lays out a number of ways to get them flowing productively
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#1196992019-01-31
How to talk about climate change on social media
Extreme weather events, from hurricanes to snowstorms, often serve as focal points for discussions about global climate change. And many of those discussions take place on social media. But do social media serve as good platforms for climate change discussion? And do extreme weather events serve ...
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#1235612019-12-20
How to talk about climate change with family and friends over the holidays
All Christmases tend to merge into one, but I remember the Christmas of 2007 rather well. I got my first job as a climate campaigner that summer and by the end of December had absorbed enough climate facts to fundamentally – and permanently – alter my view of the world.
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#1281632021-04-21
How to teach your kids the importance of protecting our oceans
Children are the future and we must not only take steps ourselves to protect the environment and oceans but educate our children; the future custodians of our planet. As many parents are currently enjoying the excitement, trials and tribulations of home learning, extending this learning to much- ...
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#1246782020-03-16
Huge knowledge gap over health of soil
A vital knowledge gap about England’s environment has been uncovered by soil campaigners. They have discovered that just 0.41% of the cash invested in environmental monitoring goes on examining the soil.
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#1244722020-03-03
I am a sea turtle, says Dia Mirza on World Wildlife Day
Nagpur: It's World Wildlife Day today and one person who has always championed the cause of nature and wildlife protection is actor Dia Mirza.
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#1302012021-09-01
ILO and IUCN sign an agreement to harness interdependence between jobs and nature
he International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to raise awareness on the interdependence between jobs and nature.
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#1300412021-08-19
If children are to live with the climate crisis, we must green the curriculum
In August 2018, the then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg started spending her school days outside the Swedish parliament calling for stronger action on climate change. It might sound perverse, a teacher supporting kids taking time off school, but spreading awareness of environmental issues is somethi ...
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#1255512020-11-04
Imparting lessons in biodiversity, an abode for mangroves
The 7.5-km stretch of Anelappuzha in Koyilandi, which connects the Korapuzha with Akalappuzha, is a storehouse of biodiversity. Lined with mangroves on both banks, this stretch has been a key factor in Koyilandy municipality’s plans to improve its tourism potential.
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#1316912021-11-15
In rural Nigeria, the magic of cinema builds support for ape conservation
It’s sunset in Bamba, a small farming community in Cross River state in southeast Nigeria. Louis Nkonyu, 46, caresses the touchpad of his laptop in search of a wildlife movie for the night. His face is lit with sweat and the whitish radiance from the projector screen.
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#1225652019-10-08
Innovation at London Design Festival
I've ducked out of Design Week for some years, consciously opting out of an obsession with branding and gentrification. Perhaps I'd grown embittered by a dearth of affordable housing for locals.
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#1190142018-12-13
Insects are disappearing from science textbooks—and that should bug you
Earth is creeping and crawling with bugs—up to 30 million species and 10 quintillion individual insects. Bugs outnumber all other species in the animal kingdom by orders of magnitude. So it would make sense that they have a starring role in science textbooks, teaching students essential lessons ...
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#1246632020-03-13
Inspired by Nature, National Parks Photography Competition 2020
The UK National Parks and Campaign for National Parks are delighted to announce the winner, runner up and shortlisted entrants for our joint photography competition underscoring the importance of nature in our national parks.
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#1344382022-05-13
International Day of Plant Health 2022: History, Significance and All You Need to Know
Plants are the life of Earth and we all are dependent on them. How we breathe and what we eat are all affected by plants. They develop up to 80% of food for us and up to 98% of oxygen. But human habitation is harming the life of plants. Several diseases and pests kill up to 40% of food crops eve ...
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#1351192022-06-29
International Day of the Tropics 2022: History, Significance and All You Need to Know
The Tropics are the regions around the equator that lie between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively. These places receive direct sunlight, are the warmest and experience abundant rainfall, resulting in a humid climate. This belt ...
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#1235562019-12-20
International bird-watching week held in SW China's Yunnan
The 4th China Baoshan Gaoligong Mountain International Bird-Watching Week is being held from Wednesday to Sunday in the city of Baoshan, southwest China's Yunnan Province.
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#1282942021-04-28
Interview: China steps up fight against illegal wildlife trade, crime: WildAid CEO
hina has been doing a good job in tackling the illegal trade of wildlife, the CEO of WildAid said, while the conservation group will continue to count on Chinese celebrity ambassadors to raise awareness about wildlife crime.
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#1342792022-05-04
Iris Zhan is helping to raise awareness about climate change by creating digital campaigns for advocate groups
The climate crisis affects everyone, which is why climate activist Iris Zhan wants to make climate activism more accessible and diverse.
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#1239692020-01-27
Island Voices: Ecological crises deserve better media coverage
I was 14 when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950. As an adolescent, I was more preoccupied with puberty-related personal issues than politics. But when Canada sent military personnel as part of a UN effort, I religiously followed the battle lines. Every day, the local paper’s front page rep ...
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#1285212021-05-11
Italian Pavilion Reflects on the Resiliency of Local Communities in the Face of Climate Change
This year's Italian Pavilion acknowledges the crucial role architecture must play in improving all citizens' quality of life and promoting sustainability. Thus, the curatorial project constitutes an interdisciplinary research laboratory investigating how architecture can respond to various issue ...
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#1241412020-02-13
Italy and FAO highlight importance of Mediterranean diet for sustainable management of land
he Mediterranean diet is not only healthy for humans, but also for the environment and for biodiversity. This was the main message at an event held today at FAO headquarters with the aim of raising awareness on how the Mediterranean diet can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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#1228832019-11-06
Italy’s Students Will Get a Lesson in Climate Change. Many Lessons, in Fact.
Public schools will require children in every grade to study sustainability. That could put Italy at the forefront of environmental education.
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#1277912021-03-23
It’s In Our Nature: Losing Our Biodiversity
In just 2 centuries, we’ve lost almost a third of our native wildlife but why does it matter if more of our wildlife goes extinct?
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#1260672020-12-08
Jacques Cousteau’s Descendents Carry On His Legacy
Jacques -Yves Cousteau, a French naval-officer-turned-underwater-filmmaker, was one of the biggest forces in environmental conservation of the last century. From his oceanographic vessel Calypso, Cousteau, who died in 1997 at age 87, and his partners explored the planet’s seas, shooting innovati ...
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#1317062021-11-16
James Cameron’s plea to protect the ocean twilight zone
When he isn’t directing movies, filmmaker James Cameron explores and studies the twilight zone. His missions there have shed new light on this carbon-sequestering environment in the inky abyss, populated with beautiful and bizarre creatures that wouldn’t look out of place in one of Cameron’s sci ...
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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.