Category: 9. Environment

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  • Radheshyam Bishnoi, protector of India’s wildlife, died on May 24, 2025, aged 28

    Radheshyam Bishnoi, protector of India’s wildlife, died on May 24, 2025, aged 28

    Radheshyam Bishnoi was born with a calling to save wildlife. From a young age, he was driven by a deep sense of responsibility to protect the fragile ecosystems around him, shaped…

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  • Indigenous Bajo suffer child deaths & toxic sludge amid green energy push

    Indigenous Bajo suffer child deaths & toxic sludge amid green energy push

    • Nickel mining on Kabaena Island has caused severe environmental degradation, threatening the health, livelihoods and cultural identity of the Indigenous Bajo people and resulting in child deaths due to toxic…

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  • Scientists rediscover a Mexican rabbit they hadn’t seen in 120 years

    Scientists rediscover a Mexican rabbit they hadn’t seen in 120 years

    • Lost to science for more than a century, the Omiltemi cottontail rabbit has been confirmed by scientists to be alive and hopping in southern Mexico.
    • The species was rediscovered via interviews with local communities…

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  • Piles of Penguin Poop Could Surprisingly Help Cool Antarctica : ScienceAlert

    Piles of Penguin Poop Could Surprisingly Help Cool Antarctica : ScienceAlert

    Antarctica’s icy wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an unlikely ally in the fight to keep the continent cool: penguin poo.


    Published Thursday in Communications Earth &…

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  • What’s at stake for the environment in Suriname’s upcoming elections?

    What’s at stake for the environment in Suriname’s upcoming elections?

    • Voters in Suriname this weekend will elect all 51 members of the National Assembly, who will then choose the president, usually the leader of a majority party or coalition.
    • Incumbent President Chandrikapersad…

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  • The blobby little sea squirt that stowed away across the Pacific to California

    The blobby little sea squirt that stowed away across the Pacific to California

    • In 2023, scientists found a nonnative species of marine invertebrate in a private marina near Los Angeles, California.
    • The arrival of this new member of California’s marine fauna highlights the massive, largely…

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  • Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

    Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

    More than 6,400 attacks against human rights defenders were reported between 2015 to 2024, according to a new report from nonprofit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC).

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