Politics

Indonesia acts on palm plantations and pollution

The giant stork billed kingfisher is one of the many to be displaced from its habitat, along with elephant, Sumatran rhino and orang utan in the previously biodiverse Borneo rainforest.Pelargopsis...

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Crops for Every Corn - or Sauerkraut!

Whether it’s this Uzbek cotton not going rotten, diseased Californian strawberries or flooded Indian rice paddies, we need new varieties to resist climate change or rise in sea-level and old...

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Army ants engineer living bridges!

; Eciton soldier image; Credit: © Shutterstock The Amazon, the Congo and parts of SE Asia possess one of the most admired killing machines known to us. The army ants...

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The Great Green wall Grows and Grows (in Paris too)

The Dogon people of Mali grow trees in their town at Bandiagara Cliff but struggle to prevent desertification outside in the encroaching sands Bandiagara image; Credit: © Shutterstock The African...

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The World Waits, Wonders and Warms.

Will true ideals replace tragedy and overcome reticence among governments to spend real money on the mitigation of global warming? No, this is not a new computer game. This is...

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Rainforest fragments and species that need them!

The mongoose lemur, Eulemur mongoz, is critically endangered, living on the forest edge on dry deciduous forests in Madagascar, where the deforestation hss been totally disastrous for so many precious...

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Water on Earth is becoming rare.

Thinking we can walk on water, we’ll soon discover that conservation is a big issue for both groundwater and river flow rates, unless that is, the water has already left...

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Public participation and environmental monitoring compared

In the south of Uzbekistan, where most white Eurasian storks (Ciconia ciconia) migrating from the Indian subcontinent breed, the contamination from TALCO is affecting many native birds such as duck,...

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Scenes of Reason:climate change and video information

Green Eye image; Credit: © Shutterstockimage Leading up to Earth Hour on Saturday, Scenes of Reason have some explanatory videos for you, explaining a lot about environmental issues such as...

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Gorillas or oil: the Virunga question

No, they ain’t all dead yet. These guys are just hanging out together as mountain gorillas do when they’re just plumb-full of food and fed up with tourists watching them!...

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