FAO hails Europe’s forest restoration ambitions
Reading Time: 2 minutesFAO Director-General Qu Dongyu recently hailed the European Union’s pledge to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and praised commitments to protect and restore the world’s forests. “We very much welcome the European Green Deal”, the Director-General said, noting that the European Commission’s blueprint plans involve reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving biodiversity and making the continent’s […]
‘Save the Amazon from fires and deforestation’
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE recent Amazon forest fires became a subject of discussion among many circles. Suddenly, people were very worried since the Amazon contributed twenty per cent of oxygen to the Earth and such large-scale fires could lead to global warming. [ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”2,3,5″ ihc_mb_template=”1″ ]Before that did anyone have any concern about the history of the […]
Nine of climate “tipping points” active today
Reading Time: 3 minutesMORE than half of the climate tipping points identified a decade ago are now “active”, a group of leading scientists have warned. This threatens the loss of the Amazon rainforest and the great ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, which are currently undergoing measurable and unprecedented changes much earlier than expected. This “cascade” of changes […]
Animals could help humans monitor oceans
Reading Time: 1 minute“WE want to highlight the massive potential of animal-borne sensors to teach us about the oceans,” said lead author Dr David March, of Centre for Ecology and Conservation on Exeter’s Penryn Campus in Cornwall. “This is already happening on a limited scale, but there’s scope for much more. “We looked at 183 species – including […]
Amazon fires indicate abnormal 2019 summer
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE fires that raged across the Brazilian Amazon this summer were not ‘normal’ and large increases in deforestation could explain why, scientists show. The perceived scale of the Amazon blazes received global attention this summer. However, international concerns raised at the time were countered by the Brazilian Government, which claimed the fire situation in August […]
Finnish rivers move carbon to Baltic Sea at rapid speed
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE AMOUNT of carbon transported via Finnish rivers to the Baltic Sea has risen substantially in the past few decades. This was found in a collaborative study by the University of Helsinki, Aarhus University and the Finnish Environment Institute. The researchers don’t know the exact effects yet. The researchers investigated changes in the amount of […]
Wildlife in tropics hardest hit by deforestation
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTROPICAL SPECIES are six times more sensitive to forests being broken up for logging or farming than temperate species, says new research. A team led by Oregon State University and including Imperial College London scientists found that sensitivity to forest fragmentation – the breakup of forests by human activities like logging or farming – increased […]
“On-Site Learning” Takes UMS Engineering Student to a Closer Look into 3D
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAN ON-SITE learning program for the construction of Kingfisher Sandakan Condominium by a total of 61 students of Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) recently could take the student a closer look into the 3D (Difficult, Dangerous, and Dirty) elements which can be seen and understood better in a real […]
Global academy network stands up for tropical forests
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), the global network of over 140 academies of sciences, engineering and medicine, choose Cop25 to release its Communique on Tropical Forest. This document outlines a set of necessary measures aimed not only at protecting forests worldwide, but also fighting climate change. IAP, whose academy members constitute more than 30,000 leading scientists, […]
Study: Asian rivers transport more plastic than Europe’s waterways
Reading Time: 2 minutesIN the first study of its kind, researchers from the Netherlands examined the amounts of floating plastic debris at 24 locations on rivers in seven European and Asian countries. Lead author Caroline van Calcar, from Delft University of Technology, said: “Land-based plastics, washed into the ocean by rivers, are believed to be the main source […]