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Climate change: a stage for world political leaders—and a question of our hearts
Environment
COP26 in Glasgow started this week, offering a stage for world political leaders. For most of them, it was an opportunity to share their vision of the world they are…
Environment
We have a duty to preserve what we have, to restore what we have lost and to look at what we need in harmony with nature, he said in a…
Environment
Weah Meets Michel, Pledges to work together on Sustainable Development and Climate Change. The President of the Republic of Liberia, H.E George M. Weah met with the President of the…
Environment
More than 100 leaders, representing areas with 85% of the world's forests, will commit to halting deforestation by 2030 on a "significant" path to tackling climate change. Countries, including Brazil,…
Environment
New research suggests binary neutron stars are a likely source of gold, platinum and other heavy elements. The results of the work are published by the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Most…
Environment
7 million people die from air pollution every year. To understand how huge this figure is, approximately 5 million people have died in the two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Environment
Masami Ogata is a survivor of Minamata Disease, a debilitating illness caused by industrial mercury poisoning, which originated in the Japanese town of the same name in the 1950s. As…
Charities
Norfolk-based conservation charity Explorers Against Extinction has pieces from its Sketch for Survival art collection being exhibited at COP26, taking place at the SEC in Glasgow between 31 October and…
Environment
Forests in at least 10 World Heritage sites have become net sources of carbon, due to pressure from human activity and climate change, according to a new report released on…
Environment
New and updated commitments made ahead of the pivotal climate conference COP26 in the past months are a positive step forward, but the world remains on track for a dangerous…
