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Our vanishing world: Insects
Nov 09, 2019 16:46About 12,000 years ago, late stone-age humans precipitated the neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start of the steady rise to civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time as the beginning of what is now known as the Holocene Epoch, the geological epoch in which humans still live.
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We can’t solve the plastics crisis with other disposables
Oct 28, 2019 15:01We can’t solve the plastics crisis with other disposables
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Pentagon climate change report ignores its own role in fueling the crisis
Oct 25, 2019 18:30The U.S. Department of Defense produces more hazardous waste than the five biggest U.S.-based chemical companies combined and is the biggest contributor to global pollution in the world.
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The rights of nature
Oct 18, 2019 11:54We're still treating a living, life-sustaining, crucial being as property: the ecosystem. And in the process, we’re choking our own habitat—that is to say, ourselves—to death.
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We need biodiversity-based agriculture to solve the climate crisis
Oct 14, 2019 17:51The Earth is living, and also creates life. Over 4 billion years the Earth has evolved a rich biodiversity — an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems — that can meet all our needs and sustain life.
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Deepwater corals thrive at the bottom of the ocean, but can’t escape human impacts
Aug 14, 2019 11:23The article you are about to hear has been penned by Sandra Brooke who works at the Coastal and Marine Laboratory at Florida State University. The article carries the title, “Deepwater corals thrive at the bottom of the ocean, but can’t escape human impacts”.
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Plastic warms the planet twice as much as aviation
Jun 05, 2019 13:36Man is the major destroyer of the Planet through wanton use of technology which despite its benefits and amenities, has become dangerously suicidal in the long run.
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BRICS urge all countries to implement Paris Climate Agreement
Jul 07, 2017 14:48The heads of state of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which constitute the BRICS emerging countries, have called for the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate despite opposition from the United States.
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We Only Have One Planet to Live On (32)
Oct 17, 2016 06:31Welcome to the 32nd weekly episode of the series We Only Have One Planet to Live On. Today, we study the relationship between poverty and environment.
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Iran and France sign environmental agreements
Aug 28, 2016 10:12Iran and France have agreed to carry out joint projects toward the enhancement of environmental issues in both countries.