'Ecocide': how war and climate change are often linked
The link between climate change and war has been a running theme at COP28, highlighting how many countries suffer from both deadly conflict and environmental disasters.
The link between climate change and war has been a running theme at COP28, highlighting how many countries suffer from both deadly conflict and environmental disasters.
Environment
Dec 7, 2023
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On the morning of December 6, 1917, a French cargo ship called SS Mont-Blanc collided with a Norwegian vessel in the harbor of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. The SS Mont-Blanc, which was laden with 3,000 tons of high explosives ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 6, 2023
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Conflict-ridden and fragile countries are among the most vulnerable to climate change and least prepared to deal with it. They are largely excluded from climate adaptation programs and funding.
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2023
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Rishi Sunak, David Cameron and King Charles are just three of the more than 70,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries at the latest UN climate summit in Dubai, COP28. But they are among hundreds who will have traveled there ...
Environment
Dec 4, 2023
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The pervasiveness of social media has transformed how teens communicate and connect with their peers. Research suggests that it can be harmful to teen girls, in particular, exposing them to unrealistic beauty standards, eating ...
Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2023
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In a new psychology paper titled "Present generation's negotiators realize their interests at the cost of future generations," researchers from Leuphana University Lüneburg and the University of Hildesheim have uncovered ...
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2023
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Animal offspring may survive better when their groups are in greater conflict with rival factions, research from the University of Bristol has shown for the first time.
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2023
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When armed conflict breaks out, we first focus on the people affected. But the suffering from war doesn't stop when the fighting does. War trashes the environment. Artillery strikes, rockets and landmines release pollutants, ...
Environment
Nov 14, 2023
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A re-analysis of more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain suggests that many of the individuals may have been casualties of the earliest period of warfare in Europe, occurring over ...
Archaeology
Nov 2, 2023
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In 1967, two simultaneous grizzly bear attacks in Montana's Glacier National Park launched an era of research into human-bear conflicts.
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2023
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