Thu 06 March 2025: South Africa continues to see a downward trend in rhino poaching, with the 2024 statistics showing that 499 rhinos were poached in 2023, compared to 420 last year — a decrease of 79. “As we intensify the fight against wildlife poaching, it is encouraging to see that the work of the […]
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Thu 06 March 2025: Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as access to remote areas takes logistical planning, funding and well-trained teams. Surveys can easily be derailed by civil unrest or lack of […]
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Wed 05 March 2025: The world’s biggest iceberg, A23a, has grounded in shallow waters off South Georgia, a remote South Atlantic British island home to millions of penguins and seals. The iceberg, which is roughly twice the size of Greater London, appears to be stranded and is expected to break up along the island’s southwest shores, the […]
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Tue 04 March 2025: Around 2,000 firefighters have been working from the air and ground to put out Japan’s worst wildfire in half a century in the northeastern Iwate prefecture, local media reported on Tuesday. The wildfire has burned around 2,600 hectares as of Tuesday morning, left one person dead, and forced nearly 4,000 people […]
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Mon 24 February 2025: A long-planned bank to fund oil and gas projects in Africa must balance profit with climate considerations, experts say. A group of African countries is set to launch a bank to fund oil and gas projects amid growing reluctance by Western institutions to further invest in fossil fuels. The long-planned “Africa […]
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Thu 20 February 2025: A new study published in Nature finds ice is melting at a ‘concerning’ rate, with repercussions for sea-level rise. Ice loss from the world’s glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, a first-of-its-kind global assessment has found, warning that melting may be faster than previously expected in the coming years and […]
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Wed 19 February 2025: Only 90 of the 157 stranded marine animals appear to still be alive as rescue teams race against the clock to save them. More than 150 false killer whales are stranded on a beach in the state of Tasmania, with rescue teams now scrambling to save those still alive, Australian environment […]
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Image: Photo by Gideon Oladimeji on Unsplash Save Wed 19 February 2025: Plastic waste in Nigeria presents a dual challenge: cleaning up environmental pollution, and tapping into its economic potential. Many countries worldwide face similar challenges. India, for one, has chosen policies that give producers of plastic the responsibility to manage their waste. Rwanda has banned single-use plastic and […]
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Tue 18 February 2025: Entering 2025 with the influence of La Nina, last month unexpectedly was recorded as the hottest January on record, according to Levent Kurnaz, director of the Climate Change and Policy Application and Research Center at Bogazici University. The Copernicus Climate Change Service, affiliated with the EU, released the temperature report for […]
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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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