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Can the Biodiversity Economy and the Doughnut Economy Lead the Way To a Sustainable Future?
Determining the value of well-functioning biodiverse habitats is complex and includes a myriad of defined ecosystem services.
In early February the comprehensive
Dasgupta Review The Economics of Biodiversity was released by the United Kingdom’s government, exploring the significant impact of biodiversity and natural capital.
The review proposes methodologies for including the intrinsic value of nature as an asset, such as the inclusion of the contributions of nature in sustainable GDP growth estimates by incorporating parameters such as resources extracted, degree of sea and landscapes exploited, ecosystem services, climate change, habitat degradation and pollution.
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5 Things To Know About Plastic Pollution and How To Stop It
Researchers continue to find new information about how widespread plastic pollution has become, but also how we can help stem the tide.
Our plastic pollution problem has reached new heights and new depths.
Scientists have found bits of plastic on the seafloor, thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface. Plastic debris has also washed ashore on remote islands; traveled to the top of pristine mountains; and been found inside the bodies of whales, turtles, seabirds and people, too.
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COVID Crisis Sparks Sustainable Health Innovation
Five newly designed oxygen ventilators are on their way to Lagos, Nigeria in April.
For all the sorrow it brings, the COVID-19 pandemic is driving innovation and one UK-based startup is ready to move forward with a medical device that’s a potential gamechanger for the developing world.
Five newly designed oxygen ventilators are on their way to Lagos, Nigeria in April after successful trials at Loughborough University’s National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine and the Leicester Royal Infirmary Hospital. Another batch of the ShiVent ventilators are headed for Pune, India.
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5 Things To Know About the Fate of Wild Salmon
Historical pressures combined with new threats from climate change have pushed more than a dozen species close to extinction.
It’s not too hard to find salmon on a menu in the United States, but that seeming abundance much of it fueled by overseas fish farms overshadows a grim reality on the ground. Many of our wild salmon, outside Alaska, are on the ropes and have been for decades.
Kenya Reaping the Benefits of Its Aggressive Anti-Poaching Drive, Bolstered by Ellipse Projects Radios and Cybertracker App
Amidst all the bad news in 2020, there was at least one silver lining.
Kenya recently reported that not a single rhino was poached throughout 2020 something that hasn’t happened in the country in over two decades. What’s more, Kenya also saw record lows in the number of elephants poached only 11 elephants were killed in 2020, the lowest-recorded total in the history of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and a sharp decrease from 350 a year just five years ago.
As the director of the KWS underlined, the authorities’ abilities to keep poaching low even amidst decreased footfall during the Covid-19 pandemic is “not just luck, it’s down to lots of hard work and dedication”. Indeed, Kenyan authorities have taken a number of critical steps towards implementing better anti-poaching policies in recent years and have deployed a number of innovative tools to