- A new Netflix documentary about pangolins, the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal, is a powerful example of what can happen when media companies highlight the plight of lesser-known species.
- Most conservation…
Category: 9. Environment
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To save pangolins, we need to change the narrative (commentary)
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To host UN climate talks, Brazil chose one of its poorer cities. That’s no accident
NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s United Nations climate conference in November is in Belem, Brazil, a city facing high poverty and infrastructure challenges. It’s a location chosen…
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How wind and solar power helps keep America’s farms alive
Drive through the plains of Iowa or Kansas and you’ll see more than rows of corn, wheat and soybeans. You’ll also see towering wind turbines spinning above fields and solar panels shining in the sun on barns and machine sheds.
For many…
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Civil society challenges Indonesian deregulation law over rights and environment
- Indonesia’s controversial Job Creation Law is facing new legal challenges from civil society groups who say it weakens environmental protections and human rights.
- One lawsuit targets provisions that restrict…
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A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel
- A project in the Sahel and East Africa claims to fight both soil erosion and poverty through regenerative agroforestry.
- U.S.-based NGO Trees for the Future (TREES) trains farmers in what it calls the forest garden…
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How a large, flightless parrot rebounded from the verge of extinction
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
In the mid-1990s, the kākāpō seemed destined…
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Impacts of climate variability and adaptation strategies on staple crop productivity in Sidama, Ethiopia
Socio-demographics of respondents
Table 3 provides the socio-demographics of the 367 respondents surveyed across two districts of Sidama. The distribution of respondents is fairly and proportionally balanced between Boricha Woreda, which includes…
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A 3.5-fold increase in the synchrony of extreme precipitation and temperature events across China from 1930 to 2022
An increase of 3.5-fold in annual LAp from 1930 to 2022
From 1930 to 2022, the annual proportion of land area (LAp) affected by multiple extreme climate events increases significantly at the national scale. Based on 30-year moving averages, the…
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Multi-level trend analysis of extreme climate indices by a novel hybrid method of fuzzy logic and innovative trend analysis
Innovative trend analysis (ITA)
The ITA is a graphical trend analysing method in which a given time series is divided into two equal sub-series, and then, each of the sub-series is sorted in ascending order. The scatter plot of the sub-series is…
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Investigating air temperature changes in Bhubaneswar city over 123 years from 1901 to 2023
Statistical data analysis
The annual average temperature is shown in Fig. 2, indicating the trends of mean temperature values of maximum (\({T}_{Max}\)), minimum (\({T}_{Min}\)) and air temperature (\({T}_{Mean}\)) from1901 to 2023 in…
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