Environment
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Environmental defense: a risk of death in Latin America
Defending the environment has become a high-risk task. We just have to look at the figures: 164 crimes against environmental…
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Switching to solar and wind will reduce groundwater use
Researchers explored optimal pathways for managing groundwater and hydropower trade-offs for different water availability conditions
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Scientists declare climate emergency, establish global indicators for effective action
In recent decades, multiple other global assemblies have agreed that urgent action is essential, but greenhouse gas emissions are still…
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The truth behind the Paris Agreement climate pledges
Almost 75% of 184 Paris Agreement pledges were judged insufficient to slow climate change; Only 28 European Union nations and…
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Trump says goodbye to the Paris Agreement
The secretary of state announced that the United States will begin the "formal process" to withdraw from the agreement that…
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Piñera cancels APEC and COP25 summit in Chile
The president lamented to cancel the events but said that the interests, problems, and needs of the Chileans were first.
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In Southeast Asia, illegal hunting is a more threat to wildlife than forest degradation
For decades habitat loss and degradation were considered the important drivers for defaunation in tropical rainforest ecosystems
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China’s carbon emissions growth slows
This decelerating trend in carbon emissions is closely related to a new phase of economic development the researchers have dubbed…
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Colombian Government authorizes shark fishing and the use of its fins
Great surprise and rejection has caused the resolution which establishes the global quotas for the fishing exploitation of different species…
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Did an extraterrestrial impact trigger the extinction of ice-age animals?
The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis proposes that a comet hit the Earth causing a period of extreme cooling that contributed…
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