Agreement reached at UN on biopiracy treatyNews
SourceMay 24, 2024
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Agreement reached at UN on biopiracy treaty
By Agnès PEDRERO | AFP Geneva, Switzerland - More than 190 nations agreed Friday on a new treaty to combat so-called biopiracy and regulate patents…

What Australia’s new gas strategy gets wrongClimate
SourceMay 24, 2024
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What Australia’s new gas strategy gets wrong
By Samantha Hepburn, Deakin University in Melbourne Australia’s gas future must involve energy security and climate security. The new government strategy fails to strike this…

Culling controversy as French wolf population falls in 2023News
SourceMay 23, 2024
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Culling controversy as French wolf population falls in 2023
By Laure FILLON | AFP Lyon, France - The estimated number of wolves in France last year was 1,003, down nine percent from the year…

Uncertainty clouds UN talks on biopiracy treatyNews
SourceMay 23, 2024
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Uncertainty clouds UN talks on biopiracy treaty
By Agnès PEDRERO | AFP Geneva, Switzerland - UN talks to create a global treaty to combat biopiracy and the exploitation of genetic resources hung…

India plans ‘historic’ tiger transfer to Cambodia this yearNews
SourceMay 23, 2024
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India plans ‘historic’ tiger transfer to Cambodia this year
Phnom Penh, Cambodia (AFP) - India will send four tigers to Cambodia this year in a "historic" bid to revive the kingdom's big cat population,…

WWF takes Norway to court over deep sea miningNews
SourceMay 23, 2024
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WWF takes Norway to court over deep sea mining
Oslo, Norway (AFP) - The World Wide Fund for Nature's (WWF) Norwegian chapter said Thursday it would take legal action against Norway for opening up…

Flower or power? Campaigners fear lithium mine could kill rare plantNews
SourceMay 23, 2024
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Flower or power? Campaigners fear lithium mine could kill rare plant
By Romain FONSEGRIVES | AFP United States - Delicate pink buds sway in the desert breeze, pregnant with yellow pompoms whose explosion will carpet the…

Bottled water is full of microplastics. Is it still ‘natural’?Climate
SourceMay 22, 2024
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Bottled water is full of microplastics. Is it still ‘natural’?
By Joseph Winters | Grist Is bottled water really “natural” if it’s contaminated with microplastics? A series of lawsuits recently filed against six bottled water…

Shell faces shareholder revolt over climate strategyNews
SourceMay 21, 2024
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Shell faces shareholder revolt over climate strategy
London, United Kingdom (AFP) - More than a fifth of Shell investors have revolted against its climate strategy in a key vote, the British energy…

Demise of rangelands ‘severely underestimated’: reportNews
SourceMay 21, 2024
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Demise of rangelands ‘severely underestimated’: report
By Nick Perry | AFP Paris, France - From camel drivers in the Sahara to nomads on the Mongolian steppe, traditional herders the world over…

Trees please me, but we also need biodiversity in our citiesNews
SourceMay 20, 2024
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Trees please me, but we also need biodiversity in our cities
By Sarah Bekessy, RMIT University in Melbourne Increasing the amount of nature in our cities can provide many benefits as long as it's done with biodiversity in…

Climate change key driver of record-low Antarctic sea ice: studyNews
SourceMay 20, 2024
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Climate change key driver of record-low Antarctic sea ice: study
By Linda GIVETASH | AFP Paris, France - Climate change played a key role in last year's record-low levels of Antarctic sea ice, a study…

Finding Where the Grass is GreenerScience
SourceMay 19, 2024
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Finding Where the Grass is Greener
By Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, enhance land surface maps to…

Cancer drug pollution is a growing global concernClimate
SourceMay 18, 2024
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Cancer drug pollution is a growing global concern
By Valérie S. Langlois and Diana Castañeda-Cortés | The Conversation As incidence of cancer increases globally, the use of cancer drugs is also growing at…

Energy transition risks critical mineral shortage: IEANews
SourceMay 17, 2024
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Energy transition risks critical mineral shortage: IEA
By Isabel Malsang and Nick Perry | AFP Paris, France (UPDATED) - The sharp drop in prices for minerals critical to the green energy transition…

Global coral bleaching event expanding to new countries: scientistsNews
SourceMay 17, 2024
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Global coral bleaching event expanding to new countries: scientists
By Lucie AUBOURG | AFP Washington, United States - The massive coral bleaching episode signaled by US authorities last month is expanding and deepening in…

Tesla’s German factory gets approval for extensionNews
SourceMay 16, 2024
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Tesla’s German factory gets approval for extension
Berlin, Germany (AFP) - Tesla on Thursday said its plans to extend its production site outside Berlin had been approved, overcoming opposition from residents and…

Equity Must Be Considered in Ocean Governance to Achieve Global Targets by 2030Science
SourceMay 16, 2024
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Equity Must Be Considered in Ocean Governance to Achieve Global Targets by 2030
By Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) As the world presses forward with urgency towards reaching global biodiversity and climate targets by 2030, there must be increased…

Carbon dioxide removal: feasibility study evaluates possible measures for GermanyScience
SourceMay 16, 2024
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Carbon dioxide removal: feasibility study evaluates possible measures for Germany
By Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres Germany aims to be climate neutral by 2045. In order to achieve this goal, greenhouse gas emissions must…

Finnish court suspends permits to hunt protected eaglesNews
SourceMay 15, 2024
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Finnish court suspends permits to hunt protected eagles
Helsinki, Finland (AFP) - Finland's top administrative court stepped in on Wednesday to suspend hunting permits against a protected species of eagle on a Finnish…

Raw sewage pumped into England’s largest lake due to faultNews
SourceMay 15, 2024
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Raw sewage pumped into England’s largest lake due to fault
London, United Kingdom (AFP) - Raw sewage was released into Windermere, England's largest and best-known lake, over a 10-hour period after a fault caused pumps…

Creating a green composite material from Japanese washi paperScience
SourceMay 15, 2024
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Creating a green composite material from Japanese washi paper
Japanese washi paper is renowned for its aesthetic beauty and its wide-array of usages. Now, a group of Tohoku University researchers have made a green…

New ‘forever chemical’ cleanup strategy discoveredScience
SourceMay 15, 2024
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New ‘forever chemical’ cleanup strategy discovered
By David DANELSKI | University of California - Riverside As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cracks down on insidious “forever chemical” pollution in the environment,…

Amazonian chief at UN to combat traditional knowledge piracyNews
SourceMay 14, 2024
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Amazonian chief at UN to combat traditional knowledge piracy
By Agnès PEDRERO | AFP Geneva, Switzerland - The leader of the Brazilian Amazon's Huni Kui people remains hopeful that a planned United Nations treaty…
