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Protection of seagrasses key to building resilience to climate change, disasters - new UN report

Protection of seagrasses key to building resilience to climate change, disasters - new UN report

Nairobi, 8 June 2020 – Seagrass meadows can be a powerful nature-based climate solution and help sustain communities hard-hit by stressors such as the COVID-19 pandemic, but...

Record profits for grain firms amid food crisis prompt calls for windfall tax

Record profits for grain firms amid food crisis prompt calls for windfall tax

Companies at the centre of the global grain trade have enjoyed a record bonanza amid soaring food prices around the world, raising concerns of profiteering and speculation in...

Out in the Fields, Contemplating Humanity and a Parched Almond Farm - Inside Climate News

Out in the Fields, Contemplating Humanity and a Parched Almond Farm - Inside Climate News

Hours before sunrise, Christine Gemperle lay in bed, snoozing an alarm set for 3 a.m. and dozing. She waited until the chimes outside her window signaled that the wind had died...

I lead a litter-picking group, but I will always defend litterers. This is why | Leila Taheri

I lead a litter-picking group, but I will always defend litterers. This is why | Leila Taheri

Rubbish seems to be everywhere you look. As one of the leaders of a community wetlands group in north-west London, I’ve witnessed a cormorant diving into a bobbing flotilla of...

Nurturing trees from an early age

Nurturing trees from an early age

Nurturing trees from an early age FAO and partners set up school clubs for Tanzania’s children for a forest-friendly future A project in Tanzania supported by FAO, through the...

Everyday Entanglement

Everyday Entanglement

Everyday Entanglement Physicists take quantum weirdness out of the lab LINKED FATES First proposed 75 years ago, the eerie quantum phenomenon called entanglement, represented...

Bird flu ‘an urgent warning to move away from factory farming’

Bird flu ‘an urgent warning to move away from factory farming’

Catastrophic declines in the number of birds and other wildlife are likely if countries do not act urgently to change the way animals are farmed, wildlife health scientists have...

Renewable energy for refugees: making a difference - UNEP-CCC

Renewable energy for refugees: making a difference - UNEP-CCC

More and more people are forced to flee their homes, as a result of persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations. As the number of forcibly displaced hits a new...

Microplastics found in human breast milk for the first time

Microplastics found in human breast milk for the first time

Microplastics have been detected in human breast milk for the first time, with researchers greatly concerned over the potential health impacts on babies. Infants are especially...

Mapping California’s ‘Zombie’ Forests

Mapping California’s ‘Zombie’ Forests

A warming climate has left a fifth of the conifer forests that blanket California's Sierra Nevada stranded in habitats that no longer suit them, according to a study published...

PM backs gas as key player in energy transition

PM backs gas as key player in energy transition

Greens leader Adam Bandt said on Monday the government needed to “shift a bit” in return for the Greens support for the safeguard mechanism, and he again suggested a climate...

California again rejects groundwater protection plans as inadequate | Food and Environment Reporting Network

California again rejects groundwater protection plans as inadequate | Food and Environment Reporting Network

Farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley didn’t stop over-pumping groundwater when doing so contaminated local water supplies with arsenic, and they didn’t stop when the...