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A historic global treaty to protect the world’s forests, coral reefs and other threatened ecosystems within 10 years was sealed at a UN summit on Saturday. Rich and poor nations agreed to take “effective and urgent” action to curb the destruction of nature in an effort to halt the loss of the world’s biodiversity on [...]
UN talks aimed at sealing a global pact to protect the world’s ecosystems entered their final day on Friday amid high tensions, with negotiators yet to agree on a make-or-break deal over money. The meeting in the central Japanese city of Nagoya is meant to produce a roadmap of 20 key goals to be achieved [...]
This is certainly a novel, and hopeful, development. At the 10th conference of parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Nagoya, Japan, Robert B. Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, called for the planet’s biological patrimony, its “natural capital,” to be included on nations’ books when they do their accounting. Here’s a highlight: [...]
About a fifth of the world’s vertebrates are threatened with extinction, a major review has found, highlighting the plight of nature that is the focus of global environment talks underway in Japan. The study by more than 170 scientists across the globe used data for 25,000 species from the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s [...]
According to a new study, people are more likely to be dishonest online than in person. Research suggests that people are more comfortable with being dishonest on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook than speaking to someone else in person. Optimum Research conducted the study of 2,012 people. It found that just 20 percent [...]
The reason women live longer than men – and why the final act of sex discrimination favours females over males – may at long last have a scientifically valid explanation. Scientists believe we are close to understanding why men on average die younger than women. Past explanations for why women live longer than men, such [...]
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