The COP16 UN Biodiversity Conference in Rome has ended with a plan for nations to contribute $200 billion a year for the protection of the planet’s biodiversity by 2030, but critics say it’s not enough. The countries came to an agreement on how to contribute the funds. The accord also includes a plan for raising […]
New research has found that the structure of humpback whale song is similar to human language — both use shorter sounds more frequently than those that are more complex, reported The Guardian. The structure helps infants of both species learn to communicate from their elders more quickly. “Language has long been considered a uniquely human […]
Approximately 27,000 farmed salmon have escaped from a farm off the Norwegian coast. Global seafood company Mowi is offering a reward to fishers who catch the escaped salmon in what environmentalists said was a “disaster for wild salmon,” reported The Guardian. The largest salmon producer in the world, Mowi is offering a bounty of approximately […]
Scientists at The Ohio State University have developed a new device known as Underwater Zooplankton Enhancement Light Array (UZELA), which will help promote more feeding sources for coral restoration. UZELA is a submersible, programmable light that can be deployed at a site for up to six months on one battery. If the devices need any […]
January 2025 was the warmest January on record, according to data from the EU Copernicus Climate Change Service. The data has surprised scientists, who predicted that this January would be at least slightly cooler on average than January 2024 now that the El Niño weather pattern has ended and the cooling La Niña weather pattern […]
The government of the United Kingdom has announced a record flood protection package that includes an additional 250 million pounds to better protect tens of thousands of England’s homes and businesses. As part of the government’s Plan for Change, it is committing 2.65 billion pounds over two years to fund flood defenses for 52,000 properties […]
In a new analysis, acclaimed climate scientist Professor James Hansen and colleagues said that scientists had greatly underestimated the rate of global heating, and that the international target of two degrees Celsius is “dead.” The analysis concluded that the combination of recent reductions in shipping pollution — which have the effect of blocking the sun […]
The most comprehensive worldwide analysis of wildlife genetic diversity ever undertaken has found that it is plummeting at an astonishing rate, but that conservation efforts can help protect species. Two-thirds of the populations studied were declining in genetic diversity. However, the researchers found that conservation was sustaining — and even increasing, in some cases — […]
Spanish fishers in Galicia — Europe’s main source of shellfish and the biggest producer of mussels in the world — are reporting a “catastrophic” collapse in shellfish populations due to the climate crisis. Some shellfish stocks have plummeted by 90 percent in just a few years, reported The Guardian. The clams and cockles local residents […]
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