Humans are living further and further away from nature, leading to a decline in the number of our interactions with nature. This is the finding of a meta-study conducted by a Franco-German research team at the German Centre ...
Ecology
Dec 14, 2022
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At the crucial COP15 nature summit in Canada, almost 200 countries are reckoning with the world's extraordinary loss of the variety of life. Climate change, mining, urban development and more are threatening Earth's biodiversity ...
Environment
Dec 14, 2022
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In Morocco, up to 60 million tons of sand are bulldozed, scraped or shoveled off beaches each year to be used as aggregate in concrete.
Environment
Dec 8, 2022
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Recently, Associate Professor LV Qinqin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), constructed the first largescale, semi-quantitative Sr-Nd isotope baseline for ...
Archaeology
Dec 6, 2022
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Winds kick up large amounts of dust from the desert that has formed as the world's fourth largest lake has disappeared, spreading it around the region and raising concerns about public health.
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2022
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Tiny fish could play a big part in tackling malnutrition and the food insecurity crisis across the globe, a new study reveals.
Agriculture
Dec 1, 2022
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More than 3,000 years before the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean, another famous ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of rare metal. Since ...
Archaeology
Nov 30, 2022
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Protected areas are one of the most effective tools for safeguarding biodiversity, but new research published today has found that most Asian countries failed to achieve a global minimum target of protecting at least 17% ...
Environment
Nov 29, 2022
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The World Meteorological Organization has published its first State of Global Water Resources report in order to assess the effects of climate, environmental and societal change on the Earth's water resources. The aim of ...
Environment
Nov 29, 2022
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Was there effectively a "Chinese problem" in Southeast Asia in the decades following World War II, with millions of Chinese in the region potentially sympathetic to communist China? American policy-makers seem to have thought ...
Political science
Nov 28, 2022
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