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Jake Johnson Ancient and slow-growing deep sea corals, endangered large whales and sea turtles, and an incredible array of fish, seabirds, sharks, dolphins and […]
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Claudia Sadoff & Mark Smith To survive the coronavirus pandemic and minimize the adverse impacts of future shocks, we must address global water insecurity […]
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Morgan Erickson-Davis Data from 2001 to 2019 show an overall deforestation of primary forest constituting the third-highest year of primary forest loss since the […]
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Concerned about the continuation of irreversible, environmentally destructive and debt financed projects in Maldives during the current Covid-19 global public health crisis with consequent […]
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The intensification of agriculture and the accompanying clearance of forest lands for cropping and grazing had been driving diverse wildlife species together and pushing […]
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Joydeep Gupta Residents of the Sundarbans wonder why they are rebuilding, when their lands have been encroached for years by the seas, and their […]
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Gareth Willmer & Fiona Broom Crucial global goals to reduce hunger and poverty and curb climate change have gone backwards or stalled, the United […]
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COVID 19 is disrupting life-saving immunization services around the world, putting millions of children – in rich and poor countries alike – at risk […]
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An above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is expected, according to forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. The outlook predicts a 60% chance of an […]
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Sandra Wilson, University of Dundee Smartphones contain about 60 different elements – including not only gold but copper and silver too. All three are […]
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A new investigation from anti-corruption NGO Global Witness has uncovered how global financial institutions – including the likes of Blackrock and the Norway Government Pension Fund […]
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Farhana Ahmed African Swine Flu, highly contagious, with no vaccine, no cure, and has decimated pig populations in East and Southeast Asia has reached […]
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Misha Coleman, Margaret Sheehan Vietnam’s response to COVID-19 is one of Southeast Asia’s most successful interventions so far. The challenge now will be to maintain […]
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Pragati Prava The capital city of Odisha is inching towards becoming a semi-critical zone so far as the groundwater scenario is concerned. With groundwater […]
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Many commodity-dependent economies in Africa and Latin America will likely face an economic crisis before they are directly hit by the pandemic, which will […]
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The coronavirus pandemic risks cancelling out recent progress in transitioning to clean energy, with unprecedented falls in demand, price volatility and pressure to quickly […]
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As a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) in the middle of the Indian Ocean with a high dependency on marine resources, Mauritius has come […]
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Torsten Thiele, Marie-Christine Imbert, Timothy Bouley Marine life is full of potential treatments, including the first antiviral approved for Covid-19 patients Covid-19 is forcing the world […]
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Mauricio Torres and Sue Branford Indigenous land rights have been under constant attack by the government since Bolsonaro took office in January 2019. Even […]
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Muhammad Akbar Notezai; Atika Rehman As FAO warns of major blow to food supply, farmers say locusts are already gobbling up their crops and […]
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Stuart Gillespie Both the epidemic and malnutrition will generate long-wave impacts, for years to come. They are also likely to interact with each other […]
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Conservationists from across the globe have warned that ever since the COVID response begun, the oceans have been at the receiving end of more […]
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Ron Israel and Hisham Jabi In the era of Covid 19 it is perhaps politically expedient for countries to turn inward and back down […]
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Luigi Guarino and Charlotte Lusty All too often, we place the beginning of the food chain at the farm, when in fact it extends back […]
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