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by Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — The climate-friendly electricity generated by solar panels in the past 40 years has all but cancelled out the polluting energy used to produce them, a study said Tuesday. Indeed, by some calculations, the so-called “break-even point” between dirty energy input and clean output may already have arrived, researchers in the Netherlands reported. “We show strong downward trends of environmental impact” of solar panel production, the team wrote […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France ( AFP ) – Polar bear numbers could drop a third by mid-century, according to the first systematic assessment, released Wednesday, of how dwindling Arctic sea ice affects the world’s largest bear. There is a 70 percent chance that the global polar bear population –- estimated at 26,000 -– will decline by more than 30 percent over the next 35 years, a period corresponding to three generations, the study found. Other assessments have […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Earth’s days are getting longer but you’re not likely to notice any time soon — it would take about 6.7 million years to gain just one minute, according to a study published on Wednesday. Over the past 27 centuries, the average day has lengthened at a rate of about +1.8 milliseconds (ms) per century, a British research team concluded in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A. This was “significantly […]
OTTAWO, Canada (AFP) — Canada’s caribou population has reached “all-time low” levels, particularly in the eastern Arctic, where the animal was classified as endangered Monday along with the monarch butterfly, according to a committee of scientific experts. “Caribou are, sadly, very sensitive to human disturbances, and we are disturbing caribou more and more,” Justina Ray said in a report by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (Cosewic). “These stressors seem to be […]
ABU DHABI, UAE (AFP) — Fifty-five out of a total of 1,052 heritage sites around the world feature on the UN cultural organisation’s World Heritage in Danger list. By listing such sites, UNESCO is seeking to mobilise the international community to protect them. During its 40th session in July, 2016, in Istanbul, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee added sites in Mali and Uzbekistan to the list, along with Libya’s five world heritage sites which have already […]
A four-month-old white lion cub cuddles up to its father Sam inside their enclosure at a zoo in Tbilisi on November 30, 2016.
CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) –Australia will spend nearly A$1.3 billion ($965.25 million) over the next five years to improve the well being of the Great Barrier Reef in an attempt to stop UNESCO from classifying the World Heritage Site as “in danger”. In the first progress report to UNESCO – requested by United Nation’s when it stopped short of placing the Great Barrier Reef on an “in danger” list last May – Australia said it will […]
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) — Munich’s Hellabrunn Zoo introduced its latest addition on Thursday (December 1), a polar bear cub that was born on November 21. The healthy cub was born to 17-year-old father Yoghi and 10-year-old mother Giovanna. Giovanna, who could be seen snuggling the newborn in video released by the zoo, is a mother for the third time. Her twins Nela and Nobby left Hellabrunn earlier this year. Giovannia and the cub will stay […]
STUCKENBROCK, Germany (Reuters) —A dog at a German zoo is helping to rear Bengal tiger cub twins which were abandoned by their mother soon after birth, Safaripark Stukenbrock in northern Germany said on Monday (November 28). One-month-old Peach and Pearl, born over the course of about an hour, were immediately rejected by their mother, said keeper Jeannette Wurms. “The first-born was in critical condition. She was so cold that we couldn’t take her temperature. Her […]
TOWNSVILLE, Australia (Reuters) — Warm seas around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have killed two-thirds of a 700-km (435 miles) stretch of coral in the past nine months, the worst die-off ever recorded on the World Heritage site, scientists who surveyed the reef said on Tuesday (November 29). Scientists surveyed sites on the Northern Great Barrier Reef in March and April and again at the same sites in October and November and found on average a […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Two men were charged Monday with stealing rare pygmy marmosets from an Australian wildlife park as a baby was reunited with her mum and the hunt continued to find dad. Three of the monkeys, the world’s smallest, were snatched from their enclosure at the Symbio Wildlife Park south of Sydney on Saturday, with police and zookeepers launching a desperate bid to locate the suckling infant. There were fears it would die […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Ants found in the Pacific islands of Fiji behave as miniature farmers, carefully sowing and fertilising the seeds of at least six types of plant, a study said Monday. Ants have previously been observed farming fungi for food, but this is the first study to show the insects cultivating plants, said researchers from the University of Munich who published their findings in the journal Nature Plants. The ant, known as Philidris […]
