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Our Growing Food Demands Will Lead to More Corona-like Viruses

The CNCL Team — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 03:18:14 +0000

As agriculture expands, habitats will shrink. That will likely lead to higher numbers of the species that transmit deadly diseases.

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To Confront Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Democracy

The CNCL Team — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:30:56 +0000

Marit Hammond, a lecturer in environmental politics at Keele University in the U.K., advocates for the necessity of an “ecological democracy” in order to meet the climate emergency urgently and sustainably. In this interview, Hammond offers insights on what this new form of democracy would look like and how we can get there.

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Global Warming Causing Profound Changes to the World’s Oceans, Scientists Warn

The CNCL Team — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:19:28 +0000

Climate change is profoundly altering the world’s oceans and frozen regions, threatening ecosystems and putting millions of people and their livelihoods at risk, according to a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and Jane Goodall Want to Talk to You About Climate Change

The CNCL Team — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:22:28 +0000

From disappearing species to plastic pollution and our disastrously weak attempts to recycle it, here's what the top voices on climate change have to say about the planet's escalating biodiversity crisis.

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On the Precipice: The Collective Asteroid of Human History

The CNCL Team — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 01:07:57 +0000

It looks as if, in some future that seems ever closer, we might be our own asteroid, the one that will collapse human civilization as we’ve known it.

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4 Ways You Can Have a Positive Impact on the Planet

The CNCL Team — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:35:51 +0000

Take action today to protect the Earth.

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Animal Agriculture Is Major Driver of Australia’s Faunal Extinction Crisis

The CNCL Team — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 04:08:22 +0000

In a submission to an Australian government inquiry into Australia's faunal extinction crisis, Vegan Australia urged the government to move towards a vegan agricultural system to help save koalas and many other threatened species.

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Protecting Indigenous Rights Will Safeguard Future of Amazon Forest, Advise Colombian Tribal Leaders

The CNCL Team — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 03:55:23 +0000

A key way to safeguard the Amazon is by placing more land under protection, including indigenous reserves, backed up by government policy that monitors illegal logging, enforces laws and respects land rights in those areas, green groups say.

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Ecological Trauma and Common Addiction

The CNCL Team — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 02:31:41 +0000

Rex Weyler defines "ecological trauma" as the experience of witnessing – consciously or not – the pervasive abuse and destruction of the natural world, of which we are a part, and for which we have a primal affinity.

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The Insect Apocalypse Is Coming: Here Are Five Lessons We Must Learn

The CNCL Team — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 22:34:29 +0000

Although endangered mammals get all the headlines, a new scientific report warns that over 40 percent of the world's insects are in danger of going extinct. If insects head toward precipitous decline and extinction, humans can't be far behind. We need to advance our thinking about insects, their importance and what can be done to save them.

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Acid Oceans Are Shrinking Plankton, Fuelling Faster Climate Change

The CNCL Team — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 23:02:04 +0000

Increasingly acidic oceans are putting algae at risk, threatening the foundation of the entire marine food web.

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A Northwest Passage Journey Finds Little Ice and Big Changes

The CNCL Team — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:46:16 +0000

After decades of travel in the Far North, E360’s Arctic correspondent joins a voyage through the Northwest Passage and witnesses a world being transformed, with ice disappearing, balmy temperatures becoming common, and alien invaders – from plastic waste to new diseases – on the rise.

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