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Drop, bears: chronic stress and habitat loss are flooring koalas
How climate change affects the building blocks for health
Ichthyosaur fossil discovered for first time in India
Why thousands of Bittell Reservoir fish are moving home
'Incredible' editing of life's building blocks
Viking trade in red squirrels may have spread leprosy
Prince Charles: Companies chased away from Amazonian rainforests now destroying plains
The Prince of Wales is encouraging companies to sign up to the Cerrado manifesto, which aims to protect globally important natural landscapes
The loss of rainforest in the Amazon has been a familiar cause for activism for more than 30 years, but the partial success of efforts to protect it is moving the spotlight to a new landscape: Brazil’s cerrado.
Environmentalists fear that measures to reduce the exploitation of the Amazon rainforest for commodities such as soy and beef have pushed some of those activities into formerly less exploited regions such as the cerrado, a vast tropical savannah covering more than 2m sq km.
Continue reading...Stream, Smoult and Eddie: trio of orphaned otters return to the wild
Rescued cubs had spent nine months in care at National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross, Clackmannanshire
Three orphaned otters have been released into the wild after more than nine months in care.
Stream, Smoult and Eddie were taken to the National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross, Clackmannanshire, when they were cubs aged between eight and 10 weeks old.
Continue reading...Electric cars emit 50% less greenhouse gas than diesel, study finds
Exclusive: researchers calculated the total lifecycle emissions of an electric car, including its manufacture, battery manufacture, and all of its energy consumption
Electric cars emit significantly less greenhouse gases over their lifetimes than diesel engines even when they are powered by the most carbon intensive energy, a new report has found.
In Poland, which uses high volumes of coal, electric vehicles produced a quarter less emissions than diesels when put through a full lifecycle modelling study by Belgium’s VUB University.
Continue reading...Protecting forest dwellers goes hand in hand with protecting forests, Whitehall told
Indigenous community leaders are urging the UK government to do more to protect the forest dwellers who defend rainforests from illegal loggers
Activists have marched through Whitehall to urge the UK government to give more support to environmental defenders who risk their lives protecting rainforests, rivers and the climate.
The demonstration on Tuesday was led by indigenous leader Candido Mezúa, who bore a banner reading “Guardians of the Forest: end the devastation of the forest and the killing of forest people.”
Continue reading...Big companies' climate change targets are 'unambitious', say analysts
While almost all companies have plans in place to reduce carbon emissions, those plans don’t go far enough, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project
Nearly nine out of 10 of the world’s biggest companies have plans in place to reduce carbon emissions, new research has found, but only a fifth of them are doing so for 2030 and beyond.
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) also found that only 14% of its sample of 1,073 large companies around the world had “science-based targets” – that is, goals to reduce carbon emissions which are in line with the global agreement to hold warming to no more than 2C, enshrined in the 2015 Paris agreement.
Continue reading...What does a sexist google engineer teach us about women in science? | John Abraham
The Google engineer’s infamous sexist manifesto is contradicted by the brilliance of women in science.
What does a sexist Google engineer teach us about women in science?
Nothing.
Wildlife colonises man-made rockpools
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Pollutants from fracking could pose health risk to children, warn researchers
Analysis of US fracking sites suggests pollutants including airborne particulates and heavy metals could affect neurodevelopment of babies and children
Pollutants released during fracking processes could pose a health risk to infants and children, according to researchers studying chemicals involved in shale gas operations.
The extraction of shale gas using pressurised fluid – a process known as fracking – has been used commercially since the 1950s and in recent years has fuelled an energy boom in the US. Many countries around the world are looking to follow suit – including Australia and the UK, where the first drilling in six years is expected to begin this week in the North Yorkshire village of Kirby Misperton, despite staunch opposition from protesters.
'We will be toasted, roasted and grilled': IMF chief sounds climate change warning
Christine Lagarde warns of ‘dark future’ if the world fails to take steps to address global warming
The world will be in deep trouble if it fails to tackle climate change and inequality, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde has warned.
“If we don’t address these issues... we will be moving to a dark future” in 50 years, she told a major economic conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Tuesday.
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