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‘Central African Forests Forever’: Meindert Brouwer’s book looks to solutions

According to communications consultant Meindert Brouwer, author of Central African Forests Forever, there are still opportunities to save the Central African — or Congo Basin — rainforest.

‘Celebrating resilience of bio diverse community’

The North East Network (NEN) in collaboration with Thetsumi Women Society and SEWA Thetsumi Unit organised a biodiversity festival at Thetsumi in Phek District, Nagaland on December 15 under the theme “Celebrating resilience of bio diverse community.”

‘Carbon footprint gap’ between rich and poor expanding, study finds

Wealthy people have disproportionately large carbon footprints and the percentage of the world’s emissions they are responsible for is growing, a study has found.

‘Canaries in the coalmine’: loss of birds signals changing planet

The world’s birds, described as the planet’s “canaries in the coalmine”, are disappearing in large numbers as the colossal impact of humanity on the Earth grows, a global review has found.

‘Building a shared future for all life’

Ever since 2002, the United Nations has proclaimed May 22 to be The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) in order to increase the understanding, as well as the awareness of biodiversity issues.

‘Build Back Better’ Would Invest In Jobs, Infrastructure And Nature

From rising seas and coral bleaching to drought, heat, flooding and fire, Hawaii is acutely feeling the impacts of climate change on our communities, coastlines, agricultural lands and watershed forests. Yet, Hawaii is at the forefront of climate action.

‘Bridging that gap between scientists and ordinary folks’: How storytelling combats anti-GMO advocacy

Many Africans still don’t understand scientists, or what they do. Scientists are widely seen as aloof and detached — a misperception has negatively impacted societal attitudes toward scientific innovations on the continent.

‘Blue diplomacy’: France summit puts world’s spotlight on oceans

Up to 40 world leaders are due to make “ambitious and concrete commitments” towards combating illegal fishing, decarbonising shipping and reducing plastic pollution at what is billed as the first high-level summit dedicated to the ocean.

‘Biophilia’ style: Nature as self-expression, solace

From tattoos to clothing to furnishings, more people are adorning their bodies and homes with themes from nature. Designers and artists who see this “biophilia” trend think it’s a response to both the pandemic and anxiety about environmental destruction.

‘Biodiversity for future generations’: Two new national parks for NSW

Two private properties bought by the NSW government will be given national parks status to help safeguard up to 50 threatened plant and animal species including the eastern-fat tailed gecko and the major Mitchell cockatoo.

‘Big day for UK seas’ as bottom trawling ban in four protected areas proposed

Government proposals to ban destructive bottom trawling fishing in the Dogger Bank, announced on Monday, marked a “really big day” for Britain’s seas, conservationists said.

‘Big Oil’ board members face hot seat over climate ‘deception’

In 1977, an internal memo at Exxon, the United States oil giant, made clear that carbon emissions from its product were causing climate change. But not only that – time was running out to act.

‘Beenome’ project aims to boost bee conservation with genetic mapping

Scientists have announced a plan to map the genomes of at least 100 bee species, representing each of the major bee taxonomic groups in the U.S., to help them determine which bees are more vulnerable to climate change and pesticides.

‘Beavers are just being beavers’: friction grows between Canadians and animals

At first, the theft of wooden fence posts seemed like a crime of opportunity – amid soaring lumber costs, stacks of wood have gone missing from construction sites across North America.

‘Bad science’: Planting frenzy misses the grasslands for the trees

There’s a tree-planting frenzy everywhere you look. In August 2019, the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India announced that more than a million Indians had planted 220 million trees on a single day. A month earlier, Ethiopia had made a similar declaration: more than 350 million trees had bee ...

‘Babies here are born sick’: are Bolivia’s gold mines poisoning its indigenous people?

Outside a small brick house shared by four families, Daniela Prada, who is heavily pregnant, gathers guava leaves to make a tea for her two-year-old son.

‘Apocalyptic’: dead crabs litter beaches in north-east England

An investigation is under way into why thousands of dead crabs and lobsters are washing up on the Tees estuary and neighbouring north-east beaches in recent weeks.

‘Aphrodisiac’ of the ocean: how sea cucumbers became gold for organised crime

Overfishing and smuggling of this crucial animal are affecting biodiversity and the livelihood of local fishers in Sri Lanka.It’s after sunset in Jaffna when Anthony Vigrado dives into the waters of Palk Bay, scanning the seafloor to collect what seems to be prized treasure. What he comes back w ...

‘Amid stormy global seas, UN Charter remains our moral anchor’, says Guterres on United Nations Day

In his annual message for UN Day this Thursday, Secretary-General António Guterres issued a reminder of the role the Organization should be playing, focusing on the the real problems of real people, as a “shared moral anchor” amid “stormy global seas”.

‘Access & benefit sharing’ must for conserving biodiversity

Pushpa Gujral Science City is celebrating ‘International Biodiversity Day’ by organising campaign on Biodiversity as per UN Guidelines on 22 actions for 22 days. During the campaign PGSC organised a webinar on “Access & Benefit Sharing (ABS) provisions under the Biological Diversity Act’”.

‘A step in the right direction’: EU reacts to COP26 deal

The United Nations target of containing global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius “remains within reach, but the work is far from done,” said Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission.

‘A remarkable phenomenon’: billions of cicadas set to emerge across eastern US

Billions of cicadas that have spent 17 years underground are set to emerge across large areas of the eastern US, bringing swarming numbers and loud mating calls to major towns and cities.

‘A quiet conservation success story, the likes of which aren’t told enough’

“Honey is money! And to have honey, you must have forest!” Emmanuel Binyuy is shouting to me down a truly terrible connection from his NGO’s office in the far west of Cameroon. He’s raising his voice because the line is bad, but also to make himself heard over a group of kids playing noisily in ...

‘A kind of rat with thorns’: the comic book busting myths about the Madras hedgehog

The brightly coloured panels of Brawin Kumar’s comic book tell the story of how two children rescue a hedgehog from an unlicensed medicine man. The mother hedgehog is delighted to be reunited with her little one, as she has lost most of her offspring to road traffic.

‘A green desert’: Mammals take a hit in Colombia’s oil palm plantations

As oil palm plantations expand across the world, razing swaths of tropical rainforests in their path, fears about their impact on the environment have also grown. In the plantations of Colombia, a new study has found yet another way they are altering global biodiversity: by impacting the diversi ...

‘A death sentence’: Indigenous climate activists denounce Cop26 deal

Indigenous communities facing an upsurge in land grabs, water shortages and human rights violations as a result of the Cop26 deal have accused world leaders of sacrificing them in order to postpone meaningful climate action and shield corporate profits.

‘A crisis situation’: Extinctions loom as forests are erased in Mozambique

t’s nighttime on Mount Nallume in central Mozambique and the chirping of frenzied crickets fills the thick forest air. Then, toward midnight, another voice joins the cacophony.

‘A continuation of colonialism’: indigenous activists say their voices are missing at Cop26

As world leaders inside the Cop26 conference centre in Glasgow boasted about pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions and end deforestation, indigenous delegates gathered across the river Clyde to commemorate activists killed for trying to protect the planet from corporate greed and government ...

Ărramăt Project highlights interconnections between Indigenous well-being and biodiversity

The Ărramăt Project is working to build the capacity of Indigenous organizations to document, share, and use their knowledge about the interconnections between biodiversity conservation and health and well-being.

«البيئة»: إحباط تهريب 40 سلحفاة عند الحدود المصرية - السودانية

جحت وزارة البيئة ، فى إحباط تهريب 40 سلحفاة سودانية تم ضبطها عند الحدود المصريةلسودانية بحوزة اثنين من المهربين قبل دخولها البلاد لتهريبها، بعد ذلك للخارج، وتمتالإجراءات بالتعاون بين إدارة محميات الجنوب والجهات المعنية

«Le rôle des communautés autochtones est crucial pour préserver la biodiversité et le climat»

Plus d’un tiers de ce qu’il reste dans le monde de forêts intactes se situe sur les terres des populations autochtones, lesquelles les protègent efficacement, constate une étude publiée début janvier. Entretien avec son auteur principal, John E. Fa, professeur à la Manchester Metropolitan Univer ...

« Dans 75 % du territoire, la nature va plutôt mal »

Si la France dispose d’un grand nombre d’aires protégées, bénéfiques pour la biodiversité, la situation globale est loin d’être satisfaisante. Entretien avec Jean-Philippe Siblet, chargé du patrimoine naturel au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, président du groupe liste verte en France.

st LD Writethru: China, Britain agree to support WHO's role in combating COVID-19

Chinese President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke over phone on Monday night and voiced support for the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

s climate change happening faster than expected? A climate scientist explains.

Climate scientists have long warned that global warming would lead to extreme heat in many parts of the world. But the 120 degree Fahrenheit temperatures brought on by the heatwave in the Pacific Northwest in June were more in line with what researchers had imagined would occur later this century.

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Solar panels need to be deployed over vast areas worldwide to decarbonize electricity. By 2050, the United States might need up to 61,000 square kilometres of solar panels — an area larger than the Netherlands1. Land-scarce nations such as Japan and South Korea might have to devote 5% of their l ...

he UN Climate Change reconvenes next week in Bonn: what will be discussed?

The midyear UN climate conference “56th session of the Subsidiary Bodies” will take place from 6 to 16 June 2022, in Bonn. These sessions focus on means of implementation and policy requirements in preparation of the COP in November. This triangulation is hoped to act as a catalyst to ensure no ...

eDNA a useful tool for early detection of invasive green crab

European green crabs feast on shellfish, destroy marsh habitats by burrowing in the mud and obliterate valuable seagrass beds. The invasive species also reproduces quickly, making it a nightmare for wildlife managers seeking to control its spread in Washington's marine waters.

all trees in Central Amazonia are impacted by periods of high maximum temperatures

Amazon forests are increasingly becoming fragmented by deforestation and fire. A new study published in Nature Communications and led by researchers in the University of Helsinki, in cooperation with scientists across the globe, uses a novel approach to quantify the impacts of fragmentation on p ...

[Video] Announcing GEO Week 2021: Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary - Convention on Biological Diversity

The GEO-17 Plenary Sessions are held 23-26 November. What to expect? This year is one of the most important with major milestones linked to global policy agendas. There is the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, there is also the ...

[VIDEO] Protected areas can help end nature loss and protect people. Here's how.

[Interview] “Avoiding the risk of land degradation is fundamental to any response to climate change”

Barron Joseph Orr, lead scientist at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is at the forefront of the UN body’s efforts to tackle land degradation.

[Interview] “Addressing climate change and biodiversity loss is in India’s best economic and developmental interests”

A landmark report released earlier this year by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, or IPBES, was a stark reminder that life on this planet, in all its wide diversity, is disappearing more quickly now than it has at any time in human history.

[Interview] Nicolas Salazar Sutil: placing trees and indigenous knowledge at the centre of future healing

If trees on our earth could mobilise, fighting for life would be the way forward, says Nicolas Salazar Sutil, the founder and director of Forest Guardians, an independent organisation that places the knowledge of indigenous peoples at the center of our future healing.

[Explainer] Can planting trees mitigate climate change?

As the world is struggling to combat climate change, one idea – planting trees – seems to be taking hold as a panacea for curing the ills of pollution, soaring carbon emissions, and degrading soil health.

[Contribution] Climate change: considering history and future challenges

What year did Korea have the most rain? The answer is 1821, in the 21st year of the reign of King Sunjo of the Joseon Dynasty. How did we know this? Korea invented a rain gauge called Cheugugi to measure and record rainfall from 1441, in the 23rd year of the reign of King Sejong.

[Commentary] Why is marine conservation still an unchartered zone?

A glance at the map of India is enough to understand how vast and wide-ranging the country’s biophysical environment is — from alpine meadows on the Himalayan slopes to coral reefs along the ocean floors.

[Commentary] Reinforcing open access to biodiversity data in the Hindu-Kush Himalayas

We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment highlighted irreversible loss in the diversity of life on earth 16 years ago. The 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report warned that around 1 mil ...

[Commentary] India holds great promise in this Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

The World Environment Day on June 5 marks the formal launch of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), a decade where efforts to massively scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems will be made.

[Commentary] Covid-19 and food security: Lessons for Indian Agriculture

I started my post-graduate work on potato in 1947 at the Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. Growing up in Tamil Nadu, I had witnessed the damage to the potato crop by a disease called late blight (caused by Phytophthora infestans) in the Nilgiri Hills.