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Critically endangered Sumatran elephant calf born in Indonesia
Nov 05, 2024 (AFP)
Sumatran elephants are on the brink of extinction with only about 2,400-2,800 left in the world, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature. The female calf wa...
Young Again: Study Shows Comb Jellies Can Reverse Aging
Nov 04, 2024 (SPX)
Typically, animal life cycles follow a well-known sequence: birth, growth, reproduction, and eventually death. Only a few species can break this sequence. A fam...
UN nature summit agrees on Indigenous representation; talks run into extra time
Nov 02, 2024 (AFP)
Representatives of Indigenous peoples, many in traditional dress and headgear, broke out in cheers and chants as 196 countries agreed on a "subsidiary body" ded...
UN talks on saving nature stumble on finance hurdle
Nov 02, 2024 (AFP)
With other successes under its belt, the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was suspended by its president ...
Summit to save nature enters final day with disagreement on funding
Nov 01, 2024 (AFP)
Amid murmurs that the talks may drag into an extra day, summit president Susana Muhamad said Friday's programmed closing session promised to be "heart-stopping"...
Armenia pips foe Azerbaijan to host 2026 biodiversity COP: summit vote
Nov 01, 2024 (AFP)
Armenia won with 65 votes out of 123 cast in a secret ballot at the CBD's 16th Conference of Parties (COP16), winding down in the city of Cali, the meeting's pr...
Solar energy integration in animal cells achieved by Japanese scientists
Oct 31, 2024 (SPX)
Imagine deriving energy just from sunlight. While animals traditionally lack chloroplasts, the University of Tokyo research team has achieved this unprecedented...
Funding hurdle at world's biggest nature protection summit
Oct 30, 2024 (AFP)
The talks that started in Cali on October 21 are meant to assess, and ramp up, progress on national plans and funding to achieve 23 UN targets agreed in 2022 to...
Nature destruction an 'existential crisis' for humans, says UN chief
Oct 29, 2024 (AFP)
The 16th so-called Conference of Parties (COP16) to the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) must make progress on the creation of monitoring and fundi...
How Mammals Developed Their Upright Posture
Oct 28, 2024 (SPX)
Transitioning from a sprawling stance, similar to that of lizards, to the upright posture seen in modern mammals marked a significant evolutionary shift. This t...
Mowed down by cars, European hedgehog numbers shrinking
Oct 28, 2024 (AFP)
An updated Red List of Threatened Species published Monday at the UN's COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, downgraded the hedgehog's status from "least...
Earth's biodiversity crisis in numbers
Oct 28, 2024 (AFP)
The COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, enters its second week Monday to assess, and ramp up, progress towards achieving 23 targets agreed in Canada tw...
COP16 chair hails biodiversity attaining 'equal footing' with climate crisis
Oct 28, 2024 (AFP)
"I think we have already achieved a first objective which was to raise the political profile of the... issue of biodiversity, put it on an equal footing with th...
UN biodiversity summit making 'very good progress': officials
Oct 25, 2024 (AFP)
The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity opened Monday in the city of Cali, and runs to November 1. Themed "Peace...
Novel hatchling raises hopes for endangered Indian bustard
Oct 25, 2024 (AFP)
The number of the desert-dwelling, metre-tall birds has plummeted dramatically in the past 25 years, with only around 150 believed to remain in the wild. But fo...
Activists take German government to court over biodiversity
Oct 23, 2024 (AFP)
The German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) charged that "the government is not doing enough to protect biodiversity", a day after ...
From Colombia's jungle to the world's fish tanks; Guerrilla attacks near COP16 host city in Colombia
Oct 23, 2024 (AFP)
The septuagenarian has dedicated half a century to the ornamental fish business in Inirida, the capital of the eastern region of Guainia, which borders Venezuel...
Over 350 green activists killed since 2018 in Colombia as COP16 'green zone' celebrates nature's bounty
Oct 23, 2024 (AFP)
The PARES foundation reported a total of 361 killings over the period in the South American nation, with 81 murders making 2023 the deadliest year. Colombia has...
Miners, farmers protest COP16 host Colombia's nature protection plans
Oct 22, 2024 (AFP)
Demonstrators used tree branches and held up long lines of trucks to block roads in the northwestern department of Antioquia, Santander (in the northeast) and c...
Fungi finding: mushroom hunters seek new species and recognition
Oct 21, 2024 (AFP)
Some are tall and thin with a helmet top, others are great flourishes of brain-like folds; some seem like they should be sheltering fairies in a storybook. Many...
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