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“Biodiversity is Capital”
Published on 21/10/2022
» UN-GCNT to join forces with private sector at GCNT Forum 2022 this November
When dolphins played with a snake
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 15/05/2022
» In August 2021, a research team was documenting biodiversity near the Tijamuchi River in Bolivia when they saw some animals that are typically difficult to observe: Bolivian river dolphins.
An extinct tree-climbing kangaroo in a 'treeless plain'
AFP, Published on 24/03/2021
» PARIS - The most remarkable thing about the nearly perfect fossils was not that they belonged to 40-kilo kangaroos that mysteriously evolved to climb trees, though that was remarkable enough.
Climate disasters prompt Australia's first platypus refuge
AFP, Published on 04/03/2021
» SYDNEY - The world's first dedicated platypus refuge will be established to rescue the unique Australian animals from climate change-fuelled crises, as bushfires and drought increasingly threaten their habitat.
Preventing the next pandemic
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 02/12/2020
» A lot of effort has been made by people around the world to find ways to stop the current pandemic from impacting the planet. Since Covid-19 is a viral illness, it knows nothing about man-made borders as it leaves doctors and frontline healthcare workers scrambling to contain it. Yet, there's another front in this fight; infectious diseases researchers, also known as virus hunters, who are trying to find viruses before they find us. One such person is American scientist Dr Kendra Phelps, a field researcher and ecologist who stars in an upcoming National Geographic documentary titled Virus Hunters which is set to premiere in Thailand tomorrow.
About 3bn animals killed, uprooted by Australian bushfires
AFP, Published on 28/07/2020
» SYDNEY: Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia's unprecedented 2019-20 wildfires in "one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history", according to a report released Tuesday.
Historic German island is nursery for North Sea seals
AFP, Published on 11/01/2020
» HELGOLAND (GERMANY) - The birthplace of Germany's national anthem and a practice bombing range for British airmen after World War II, Helgoland island in the North Sea turns cuddly at the turn of the year as grey seals arrive to give birth.
English Channel dolphins riddled with toxins
AFP, Published on 13/09/2019
» PARIS - The skin and blubber of bottlenose dolphins in the English Channel contain alarmingly high concentrations of mercury and other toxic pollutants, researchers said Thursday.
Here we go again: Earth's major 'mass extinctions'
AFP, Published on 06/05/2019
» PARIS: Whether humanity has pushed the planet into a "mass extinction" event may be a matter of definition, but by any measure the rate at which life-forms are disappearing is deeply alarming, scientists say.
When ships pass, humpback whales eat less: study
AFP, Published on 10/08/2016
» PARIS - Noise from ships impedes humpback whales from foraging for food, and could have long-term impacts on the health of the giant marine mammals, according to a study released Wednesday.