Category: 9. Environment

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  • Efforts to revive India’s disappearing endangered star anise

    Efforts to revive India’s disappearing endangered star anise

    The Himalayan star anise is a key source of livelihood for India’s Indigenous Monpa community. But the tree that bears the star anise fruit has greatly declined in number after…

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  • Guinea iron ore megaproject pollutes waterways & farmland, communities say

    Guinea iron ore megaproject pollutes waterways & farmland, communities say

    Mining activities at Guinea’s Simandou iron ore megaproject are polluting waterways and degrading agricultural land, according to community representatives and advocates who spoke…

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  • In Ecuador, environmentalists worry Noboa is unwinding nation’s green reputation

    In Ecuador, environmentalists worry Noboa is unwinding nation’s green reputation

    BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Recent moves in Ecuador have environmental interests concerned that the South American nation is unwinding some of the basis for its green reputation….

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  • Soy crops squeeze Amazon park with 11,000-year-old rock paintings in Brazil

    Soy crops squeeze Amazon park with 11,000-year-old rock paintings in Brazil

    • Remarkable discoveries in an Amazon cave rewrote human history, but it remains largely unknown as farmers advance closely.
    • Boasting hundreds of ancient rock paintings, Monte Alegre State Park (PETA) in northern…

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  • Bhutan’s new farm fencing program could be costly for wildlife (commentary)

    Bhutan’s new farm fencing program could be costly for wildlife (commentary)

    • The tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan is known for embracing nature as part of its philosophy of Gross National Happiness, but this is increasingly at odds with a new drive to boost food self-sufficiency, due to…

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  • Former poachers guard Cabo Verde’s endangered sea turtles

    Former poachers guard Cabo Verde’s endangered sea turtles

    • Conservation organizations are employing Cabo Verdeans, who formerly hunted endangered and threatened sea turtles, as rangers who now monitor and patrol beaches.
    • From 2007-24, illegal catches of female turtles on…

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  • Global maps reveal where mycorrhizal fungi thrive — and where they’re unprotected

    Global maps reveal where mycorrhizal fungi thrive — and where they’re unprotected

    • Scientists made the first detailed global maps of mycorrhizal fungal networks by analyzing DNA from 25,000 soil samples worldwide, showing where these fungi that partner with most plants are most diverse.
    • Less than…

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  • The mystery of melting sea stars may finally be solved 

    The mystery of melting sea stars may finally be solved 

    A mysterious disease has been turning sea stars into goo since 2013. Now, there’s a leading suspect behind the killings — a bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida, researchers report August 4 in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Knowing…

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  • Cocoa boom fuels new wave of deforestation in Cameroon

    Cocoa boom fuels new wave of deforestation in Cameroon

    Once threatened by palm oil and loggers, Cameroon’s forests now face a new driver of deforestation: booming cacao production to supply the European market.

    A new report by the…

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