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Pope calls for action on climate change, biodiversity loss
2015-06-19 20:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In a letter being widely heralded by environmentalists, yesterday Pope Francis called on world leaders to address threats to the planet, including climate change and species extinction. Notably, the leader of the Catholic Church singled out "human activity" as the main driver of these threats. Calling climate change an urgent challenge and a danger that will disproportionately affect the world's poorest people, Pope Francis spoke of a need for a fundamental rethink of how we produce energy and...
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Nuclear power good for biodiversity?
2015-05-28 01:00:00| Power Technology
Seventy-five academics have called for a larger role for nuclear in the future energy mix, entreating environmentalists to put aside their idealism and think objectively. Elly Earls spoke to one of the scientists behind the letter, Dr Barry Brook, to
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Biodiversity: 11 new species come to light in Madagascar
2015-05-25 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Madagascar is home to extraordinary biodiversity, but in the past few decades, the island's forests and associated biodiversity have been under greater attack than ever. Rapid deforestation is affecting the biotopes of hundreds of species, including the panther chameleon, a species with spectacular intra-specific colour variation. A new study by Michel Milinkovitch, professor of genetics, evolution, and biophysics at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), led in close collaboration…
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Energy Sprawl: Comparing biodiversity impacts oil, gas and wind production
2015-05-08 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Energy has become a contentious and politicized topic, spurring activism, whether it be the fossil fuel divestment campaign, Keystone pipeline protests, or concern over wind turbine harm to birds. But whatever energy future we choose, two things are clear: an expanding human population will need more energy, and no matter what energy source we pick, it will have landscape-scale impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. In a recent extensive literature review, scientists Nathan F. Jones,...
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How Forest Fragmentation Threatens Biodiversity
2015-04-30 20:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. currently has 59 national parks, protecting more than 210,000 square miles of land with several more public lands being preserved on state and local levels. Very few national parks are large enough to contain ecosystems. Problems such as greenhouse gases, climate change, industrial fumes, the extent of land development and their environmental impacts were not envisioned when most of their borders were first enacted. The physical boundaries of these public lands are not enough to protect...
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