Environment
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Chile approved new financial model that helps environment
Chile will apply a financial model to measure the investments necessary to combat the effects of climate change
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Poo transplants to help save koalas
Poo transplants are helping expand koala microbiomes, allowing the marsupials to eat a wider range of eucalypts and possibly survive…
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Amazon burning: Brazil reports record forest fires
Concerns grow over right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policy
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With reservoirs at risk, Sierra Leone capital confronts water crisis
Experts largely blamed the disaster on rapid urbanization driving residents to claim trees and land to build new homes
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Faced with floods and suicides, U.S. readies for a warmer world
Depression, anxiety, suicide, and post-traumatic stress disorder tend to increase after floods, storms, wildfires, and heatwaves
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Amazon rainforest absorbing less carbon than expected
New study finds that insufficient nutrient supply has not been properly accounted for in ecosystem models
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Coca and conflict: the factors fuelling Colombian deforestation
A University of Queensland-led study found that conflict between illegal groups and the governmental military forces were all associated with increased…
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‘Green gold’: Kenyan farmers abandon food crops to grow herbal stimulant
As drought and erratic weather wreak havoc across rural Kenya, a growing number of farmers are abandoning traditional crops for…
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Farming and eating need to change to curb global warming-UN report
The report said global population growth and changes in consumption patterns have caused unprecedented rates of land and water use
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Head of Brazil deforestation monitor out amid Bolsonaro ire
Science and technology minister Marcos Pontes later confirmed Galvao's departure on Twitter and thanked him for his dedication
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