Sun 16 February 2025: The population of the Indian pangolin has drastically plummeted in Pakistan due to a variety of factors, mainly poaching, illegal trade, habitat loss, retaliatory killings and climate change. The Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) is the only pangolin species found in the South Asian country, which is classified as endangered on the […]
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Mon 10 February 2025: Air pollution kills 100 children younger than age five every day in East Asia and the Pacific, UNICEF said in a new report on Thursday. Air pollution, the “silent killer,” reaches its highest levels in many areas of the region during the dry season, which lasts from now until April. It […]
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Fri 07 February 2025: A total of 3,477 wild elephants and 1,190 people have died in Sri Lanka between 2015 and 2024 due to the ongoing human-elephant conflict, said a minister on Thursday. Minister of Environment Dammika Patabendi told parliament that 1,466 wild elephants died between 2015 and 2019, while 2,011 more fatalities were recorded […]
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Mon 03 February 2025: Greenland’s ice sheet is “more rapidly” cracking open as a result of climate change, according to a new study published on Monday. A new report by UK’s Durham University, led by Tom Chudley, revealed that crevasses had significantly increased in size and depth at the fast-flowing edges of the ice sheet […]
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Sun 02 February 2025: A mountain in New Zealand, which Indigenous people consider an ancestor, has been granted legal personhood through a new law that gives it the same rights and obligations as a human being. Taranaki Maunga, formerly known as Mount Taranaki, is the latest natural feature in New Zealand to be granted legal […]
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Sun 26 January 2025: At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, UNICEF said on Friday. Heat waves were the predominant climate hazard shuttering schools last year in Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Cambodia, with over 118 million students affected in April alone, according to UNICEF […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: Solar power overtook coal in Europe’s electricity mix for the first time in 2024 while gas declined for the fifth year in a row, energy think tank Ember said in a report on Thursday. “Driven by expanding wind and solar power, renewables have risen from a share of 34 percent in […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: Experts say May and June are hatching periods, the most appropriate time to catch larvae and juveniles. Taiwan has announced it will cull up to 120,000 green iguanas with local governments asking the public to help identify iguana nests, recommending fishing spears as the most humane means of killing the animals. […]
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Tue 14 January 2025: All glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland are losing mass or volume, and that water has to go somewhere – and that somewhere is the oceans,’ warns glaciologist Sridhar Anandakrishnan For years, glaciologist Sridhar Anandakrishnan has been studying the massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, often referred to as the “Doomsday Glacier.” Its […]
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Fri 10 January 2025: The global warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (34.7 degrees Fahrenheit) set by countries was surpassed in 2024, the hottest year on record, according to a report. “2024 had a global average temperature of 15.10°C,” EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a report on Friday. It stressed: “2024 was […]
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