- Western Joshua trees in California are increasingly threatened by changing climate conditions, including rising heat, increasing drought, more frequent wildfires, and by expanding renewable energy and housing…
Category: 9. Environment
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In a warming world, can California save its Joshua trees?
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Sri Lanka’s plant messiah spreads optimism for biodiversity & conservation
- A young Sri Lankan scientist, Himesh Jayasinghe, has rediscovered more than 100 of 177 possibly extinct species in Sri Lanka as well as three of five extinct species and both species previously considered extinct…
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Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts
- Plastic waste is an exploding global problem, with minimal recycling resulting in incineration as a common disposal practice. Shipments of plastic products and plastic waste from the Global North to the Global…
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Now on Wall Street, JBS eyes growth amid scrutiny on deforestation & graft
- The world’s largest meatpacker had a long journey to the U.S. stock market, one full of reports of greenwashing and corruption.
- After debuting on the NYSE, the company plans to use its new access to Wall Street…
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How hot can Earth get? Our planet’s climate history holds clues
Our species likes it cold.
Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths but by ice caps at the…
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How climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar
GENEVA (AP) — Soccer faces growing challenges from extreme heat, as seen during the FIFA Club World Cup in the U.S. this summer. Rising global temperatures are making summer…
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Sri Lanka grants protection to a rare ecosystem
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
In a move hailed as a long-overdue conservation…
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Study finds two-thirds of India’s snow leopards are in Ladakh region
Snow leopards are often called “ghosts of the mountains,” and for good reason: They’re notoriously difficult to spot. But researchers behind a recent study used a…
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Ultrasonographic evaluation of testicular and Pampiniform plexus characteristics in young bulls under different microclimatic conditions in a tropical environment
Ethics
All experimental procedures were approved by the Animal Use Ethics Committee of Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste (São Carlos, SP, Brazil; Protocol CEUA PRT02/2023). The experiment was conducted in compliance with Brazilian laws and reported…
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Predictiveness and drivers of highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in Europe
Hippocrates, et al. Hippocrates on Airs, Waters and Places (Wyman & Sons, 1881).
Li, J., Lai, S., Gao, G. F. & Shi, W. The emergence, genomic diversity and global spread of SARS-CoV-2. Nature…
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