Tag: Biodiversity
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A Look at Why Ecuador Abandoned the Plan to Leave Oil in the Soil in Amazon
On Aug. 15, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced his government’s abandonment of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the innovative attempt to reverse the economic arrangement of oil extraction in the Amazon by keeping the oil in the soil in exchange for international assistance.
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Protecting One-Fifth of Earth’s Land Could Save Two-Thirds of Plant Species
“We’re getting tantalizingly close to achieving the Convention of Biological Diversity’s global goals. But the last few steps remaining are huge ones.”
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Widely Used Fire Retardant Could Trigger Cancer
Earlier this year a disturbing study showed that the brominated fire retardant TBBPA, which is widely used in consumer products, triggers cancer in lab animals …
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De-Extinction: If We Could Revive a Species, Does It Mean We Should?
If we truly want our relation to nature to be “something other than tragic,” what that will require, most of all, is for us to finally, belatedly get good at behaving like something less than gods.
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Mosquito Spraying Ineffective and Dangerous to Wildlife
Scientists at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation sent a letter today to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asking that the agency abandon a proposed mosquito control project …