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#1239222020-01-23
Your plane travel destroys polar bear habitat
A group of polar bear researchers wants you to do more than worry about the fate of these beautiful animals. They've calculated how much summer sea ice is melted per metric tonne of CO2 emissions. Then you can decide if the flight you're planning to take is worth destroying polar bear habitat.
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#1340332022-04-13
Your morning coffee could hasten species’ extinction
As negotiations before the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-15) take place, international research has quantified the impact of human consumption on species extinction risk.
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#1279812021-04-08
Your lawn could help save the bees
Over the past few decades, pollinators have been in decline worldwide, which is concerning because 70% of crops used for human food depend on pollinators. Turfgrasses—used for most residential lawns—often take some of the blame for pollinator decline as they are known to be wind-pollinated and w ...
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#1318092021-11-18
Your holiday trash could be contributing to environmental injustice
The past few weeks have been hectic. Almost every week we had a party at home. Usually, Diwali celebrations continue for a month. Families invite other families for lavish meals, show off their beautiful saris, and kids go to sleep very late—I mean VERY late.
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#1292222021-06-11
Your hemp shopping bag and reusable bottle are laudable, but here's why they aren't enough to save the planet
It's a truism of environmental consciousness that climate change has been caused by the individual decisions of hundreds of millions of consumers around the world, most especially in the West. And so we are exhorted by pundits to rethink our carbon footprints and address our unsustainable, destr ...
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#1275212021-03-04
Your favorite fishing stream may be at high risk from climate change – here’s how to tell
Many of the streams that people count on for fishing, water and recreation are getting warmer as global temperatures rise. But they aren’t all heating up in the same way.
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#1227422019-10-25
Your favorite beaches around the world could disappear because of the climate crisis, development
They are dynamic places -- and not just because they're great for relaxing, surfing or people watching. With each crashing wave and changing tide, billions of pieces of sand and rock are constantly rearranged.
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#1244212020-02-28
Your Environment This Week: Medicinal plants that heal, saving sparrows and Karnataka’s barefoot ecologist
From covering 19.49% of India’s land area in 1987 to 21.6% in 2019, India’s forest sector has had a roller coaster journey. We examine this via the lens of India’s State of Forest Reports.
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#1253792020-05-01
Your Environment This Week: India’s polar missions, opportunity in a pandemic, fake wildlife news frenzy
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one.
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#1304252021-09-15
Younger generations are the most fatalistic about climate change
To better understand differences between generations, including how they perceive one another and the biggest challenges of the day, our team at the Policy Institute at King’s College London and New Scientist commissioned a survey of more than 4000 people aged 18 and over in the US and UK. Respo ...
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#1240752020-02-03
Young, enthusiastic volunteers begin greening Bangalore University Campus
The exercise was part of the Hero TOI Green Drive which added 20,000 saplings of different varieties on Sunday alone. Over the next seven days, more will be planted to make the campus richer by 100,000 trees. In the coming years, the area will be transformed into a forest of sorts.
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#1232492019-12-04
Young porpoises in the UK ingesting toxic milk
Research shows that juvenile harbour porpoises are being exposed to a ‘toxic cocktail’ of chemicals when they feed from their mother.
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#1317832021-11-18
Young people more optimistic about the world than older generations – Unicef
Young people are often seen as having a bleak worldview, plugged uncritically into social media and anxious about the climate crisis, among other pressing issues.
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#1215782019-07-15
Young people look to faith teachings to save the planet
July 15, 2019 – As concern for the environment grows across the globe, around 350 young leaders from more than 50 countries today discussed solutions, examining innovative examples and best practices as they met at the second international Laudato Si’ interfaith conference held at the UN Environ ...
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#1222152019-09-13
Young people are right about climate change: It's time to listen to them
Climate change is not a far-away problem — it is causing huge damage right now in Japan and around the world. From air pollution choking many major cities to more extreme heat and natural disasters to 1 million species at risk, the urgent need for climate action is clear. We are all paying the p ...
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#1281432021-04-21
Young male fruit flies make females fight each other more
Mating changes female behavior across a wide range of animals, with these changes induced by components of the male ejaculate, such as sperm and seminal fluid proteins. However, males can vary significantly in their ejaculates, due to factors such as age, mating history, or feeding status. This ...
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#1221402019-09-09
Young leaders around the world to join the fight against plastic pollution
Nairobi/London, 7 September 2019 - More young people around the world will be able to join the fight against plastic pollution after the UK Government announced an extension of a global Scout and Girl Guides badge to create the next generation of international leaders to protect our ocean.
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#1302042021-09-01
Young infant's laughter found to share features with ape laughter
A team of researchers from Leiden University, University College London and the University of Amsterdam, has found that human infants laugh in ways that are more like chimpanzees than adult humans. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes their study.
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#1232242019-12-03
Young girl in the United Arab Emirates adamant about creating a sustainable environment
Today’s youth are not sitting idle. All across the word, young people have been taking a stand and voicing their concerns about global issues, from gender equality to climate change. Similarly, youth in West Asia have become more and more engaged in activism and environmental mobilization.
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#1327082022-01-25
Young environmentalists ‘plant the future’ in Colombia’s Amazon
Felipe “Pipe” Henao is a young environmentalist from the small town of Calamar in southeastern Colombia. At the meeting point of the Amazon and Orinoco basins, it’s an area of abundant biodiversity and an important biological corridor to the Andes mountains.
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#1313792021-11-01
Young activists call Glasgow climate conference 'last chance for humanity'
There are over 8,900 miles separating the African nation of Malawi from the United States. A direct airplane between the two would take an estimated 16 hours, and, as well as physical distance, the lands are also culturally miles apart.
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#1290032021-06-02
Young T. rexes had a powerful bite, capable of exerting one-sixth the force of an adult
Jack Tseng loves bone-crunching animals—hyenas are his favorite—so when paleontologist Joseph Peterson discovered fossilized dinosaur bones that had teeth marks from a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, Tseng decided to try to replicate the bite marks and measure how hard those kids could actually chom ...
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#1305672021-09-23
Young People Are Very, Very Anxious About Climate Change
Maybe it’s the wildfires, or the hurricanes, or the changes to the plants and animals that surround us, but our children are feeling the impact of the climate emergency.
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#1290512021-06-04
Young Nepali activists protect pangolins
Four years ago, teenager Anish Magar saw a pangolin being killed close to his home in Yangshila, in the forested Chure Hills of eastern Nepal. He rushed to the office of KTK-BELT and Namuna Permaculture Learning Grounds (NPLG), demanding that they take action.
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#1353352022-07-15
Young Māori divers hunt invasive crown-of-thorns starfish to save coral reefs
Every Saturday, a group of Cook Island Māori youth slide into scuba gear, grab sticks from the ironwood trees (Casuarina equisetifolia) growing along Rarotonga’s beachfront, and head to the reef surrounding the island. Their mission; to dive for invasive taramea (crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanth ...
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#1258822020-11-26
Young Brazilians are increasingly keen on conservation- and biodiversity-related topics
Young Brazilians are increasingly interested in biodiversity, conservation of the Amazon and science as they begin high school, but school students in the North region are more interested in learning about these subjects, and about local fauna and flora, than their peers in the Southeast.
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#1301912021-09-01
Young Boy Caught a Massive "Foot-Long" Goldfish, Proving Invasive Goldfish Epidemic
According to an email from his father Jason to the Press, Cash Geiger grabbed a foot-long goldfish while fishing at the Fireman's Park pond in August.
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#1238612020-01-22
You never miss the water, till the well runs dry
In the past twenty years, virtually every country around the world has experienced natural calamities if we have experienced it in the form of drought, famine, immense downpours, and snowfall – in the same vein the world experienced it in the way of wildfire, Tsunami, hurricanes, flood, volcani ...
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#1319712021-11-29
You might want to think twice before buying a woolly Christmas jumper this year
Wool has a damaging effect on the planet and is not sustainable, according to a new report released this week.
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#1269742021-02-10
You don't need to know nature to love it: study
A common belief in nature conservation is that people need to "know nature" in order to care about it. However, new research has found that farmers in the Brazilian Amazon can develop strong connections with nature despite having little knowledge of local biodiversity—in this case local bird spe ...
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#1201452019-02-28
You can’t take on climate change without tackling sprawl
Get rid of all the country’s coal plants, run the country purely on renewables, and we’ll still be left with the top source of greenhouse gas emissions: transportation.
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#1233812019-12-11
You Don’t Live In The Arctic But Climate Change There Affects You Too - Here Are 3 Reasons
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Arctic Report Card came out this week, and its messages are dire. However, one of my concerns about scientific reports like this is that they often fail to “connect the dots” for an average person living in Canton, Georgia or Laurel, Mar ...
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#1191872018-12-21
You Can't Just "Clean Up" the Plastic in the Ocean. Here's Why.
Since the early 1950s, there has been an estimated 8.3 billion tons — and counting — of plastic produced on the planet, according to a 2017 study published in the Science Advances journal. The United Nations Environment Program reports that roughly 60% of that lump sum has made its way to landfi ...
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#1248382020-03-25
You Can Live Stream the Northern Lights Tonight
As governments and local authorities continue to mandate social distancing measures to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, non-essential travel is out of the question. But while you’re quarantining at home, you can still see one of nature’s most stunning atmospheric phenomena: Explore.org an ...
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#1349822022-06-14
Yosemite undergoes forest thinning due to wildfire risk. Environmentalists want it stopped
For more than a century, Yosemite National Park was viewed as a refuge where nature prevails unmolested by man-made forces amid picturesque vistas of granite cliffs, waterfalls and giant sequoias.
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#1309182021-10-18
Yili Group Attends COP15 Ecological Civilization Forum to Discuss Biodiversity Conservation
Yili announces latest biodiversity conservation initiatives: "Save Endangered Asian Elephants" and "Smart Grasslands" Yili attends COP15, showcasing progress of "Yili Homeland Initiative" and discussing plans on biodiversity conservation
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#1194982019-01-18
Yet again, climate change is the greatest threat facing our world
For the past decade, the World Economic Forum has put out a yearly review of the greatest threats to our world—the economic and geopolitical risks that endanger our planet, our way of life, and even our species.
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#1284172021-05-05
Yes, you can have more than 150 friends: New study deconstructs Dunbar's number
An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as "Dunbar's number"—that the architecture of the human brain sets an upper limit on our social lives. A new study from Stockholm University indicates that a cognitive limit on human ...
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#1245502020-03-05
Yes, this is a forest
‘We understand the value of forests beyond the price tag of timber. We recognise that our forests are crucial for wildlife to survive.‘ Tesni Clare made some interesting points in the article ‘This is not a forest’, recently published in The Ecologist, not least about the importance of healthy f ...
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#1298842021-08-10
Yes, the climate crisis is terrifying. But I refuse to abandon hope
Babe, look!” my wife said excitedly, as we sprawled on the grass reading on one baking hot afternoon. She passed me her book: “Read this – this person is just like you!”
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#1215432019-07-11
Yes, climate change can be beaten by 2050. Here’s how.
The sun rises in Calgary in 2050. A wind-farm worker rolls out of bed, packs himself a tofurkey sandwich on rye, checks his condo building’s geothermal heating system and hops the electric tram to work.
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#1251912020-04-21
Yes, climate change can affect extreme weather but there is still a lot to learn
The fact that the climate has warmed is hard for humans to actually experience first hand, and we certainly can't see carbon in the air with our own eyes. For most of us, climate change manifests itself and affects our lives through heatwaves, storms, wildfires, floods and droughts.
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#1298162021-08-09
Yes, a few climate models give unexpected predictions, but the technology remains a powerful tool
The much-awaited new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due later today. Ahead of the release, debate has erupted about the computer models at the very heart of global climate projections.
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#1210012019-05-09
Yemen’s forests another casualty of war amid fuel crisis
[Sanaa] The four-year conflict in Yemen which has pushed huge swathes of the population close to famine has also left the country with a severe fuel crisis.
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#1291142021-06-07
Yemen's unique 'dragon's blood' island under threat
Centuries-old umbrella-shaped dragon's blood trees line the rugged peaks of Yemen's Socotra—a flagship symbol of the Indian Ocean archipelago's extraordinary biodiversity, but also a bleak warning of environmental crisis.
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#1278032021-03-23
Yemen's Socotra archipelago will become a dream destination for tourists
With its lush landscape,distinctive trees, unique animals and turquoise waters home to dolphins, Yemen is hoping its Socotra archipelago will become a dream destination despite the country's conflict.
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#1322572021-12-21
Years later, restored wetlands remain a shadow of their old selves
Danes have been diligent about wetland restoration. Indeed, more than 200 wetlands have been restored over the past 25 years. In particular, restoration in Denmark has been used as a means to curb nutrient runoff from crop fields into watercourses.
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#1347862022-05-31
Year of the Tiger: Illegal trade thrives amid efforts to save wild tigers
In new, covert drone footage, tigers and bears pace inside prison-like cement and corrugated steel cages near a casino complex — a newly built, expanded commercial captive-breeding facility on the banks of the Mekong River in Laos.
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#1264742020-12-28
Year of extreme weather creates confusion for Britain's flora and fauna
It was a year of extremes as far as the weather was concerned: pounding rain, violent summer storms, some mild winter months and periods of searing sunshine.
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#1279482021-04-07
Yawn contagion in lions found to also play a role in social behavior
A trio of researchers from the University of Pisa has found that lions, like many other animals, engage in contagious yawning. In their paper published in the journal Animal Behavior, Grazia Casetta, Andrea Paolo Nolfo and Elisabetta Palagi describe their study of lions living in the wild in Afr ...