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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Global consumers purchasing teak may be fuelling conflict in South Sudan, a research group said on Tuesday, warning that armed groups are benefiting from an unregulated logging trade worth tens of millions of dollars. Washington-based research group … Continue reading Unregulated teak trade fuelling South Sudanese violence -report
Model Lily Cole listens to a hunger striker outside Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London, Britain December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner LONDON (Reuters) – British model and actress Lily Cole on Monday visited two elderly climate change activists from the Extinction … Continue reading British model Lily Cole backs climate change hunger strikers
No Planet B | From domestic cats’ ecocide of small animals to the greenhouse gases they emit, owning a pet is an environmental vice we must confront, writes Graham Lawton Environment | Comment 4 December 2019 By Graham Lawton Ivanov … Continue reading Why you should worry about your pet’s ecological footprint
Tiny particles of plastic are in our food, water and even the air we breathe. We investigate the impact they have inside our bodies Health 4 December 2019 By Graham Lawton THIS morning I tried to count how many plastic … Continue reading We constantly eat microplastics. What does that mean for our health?
HOGE VELUWE, Netherlands (Reuters) – A national park in the Netherlands is making an unusual offer to visitors this holiday season: come and chop down your own Christmas tree – for free. A family puts a Christmas tree that they … Continue reading Chop-your-own Christmas trees: Dutch park makes festive free offer
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Landslides in Burundi have killed at least 26 people and injured seven, while 10 more people remain missing, the Security Ministry said on Thursday. All the victims were living on a hillside which gave way after heavy … Continue reading Landslides in northwest Burundi kill at least 26 people
PALISADES, N.Y. (Reuters) – Some 20 miles north of New York City, a team of scientists is searching for clues about how the environment is changing by studying organisms not usually found in the woods around here: corals. A school of … Continue reading In New York lab, centuries-old corals hold clues to climate shifts
Ledgers recording body size measurements, measuring tools and a Tennessee Warbler belonging to Field Museum scientist, Dave Willard, who took measurements of 70,716 bird specimens of migratory birds that died in collisions with buildings in Chicago over a period of … Continue reading Bye-bye, birdie: Study finds North American birds getting smaller
Ledgers recording body size measurements, measuring tools and a Tennessee Warbler belonging to Field Museum scientist, Dave Willard, who took measurements of 70,716 bird specimens of migratory birds that died in collisions with buildings in Chicago over a period of … Continue reading North America’s bird shrinkage documented, with a crash and a splat
LONDON (Reuters) – Braving perils from blood-sucking leeches to tigers and using transport as basic as elephants, scientists have journeyed like “Indiana Jones” to remote locations to collect wild cousins of crop seeds in a project to help tackle climate … Continue reading ‘Indiana Jones’ scientists collect seeds in wild for climate change fight
LONDON (Reuters) – Braving perils from blood-sucking leeches to tigers and using transport as basic as elephants, scientists have journeyed like “Indiana Jones” to remote locations to collect wild cousins of crop seeds in a project to help tackle climate … Continue reading Indiana Jones scientists collect seeds in wild for climate change fight
MADRID (Reuters) – The past decade is almost certain to be the hottest on record, weather experts warned on Tuesday, painting a bleak picture of vanishing sea ice, devastating heatwaves and encroaching seas in a report launched at a climate … Continue reading Earth’s temperature likely marks hottest decade on record: report
