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Extinctions and shrinking habitat are driving 'rewilding' in cities

Extinctions and shrinking habitat are driving ‘rewilding’ in cities

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DETROIT (AP) — In a bustling metropolitan area of ​​4.3 million people, Yale University wildlife biologist Nyeema Harris ventures into secluded thickets to study Detroit’s most elusive inhabitants — coyotes , foxes, raccoons and skunks among them. Harris and his colleagues have placed surveillance cameras in the wooded sections of 25 city parks over the …

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Negotiators take their first steps towards a plastic pollution treaty

Negotiators take their first steps towards a plastic pollution treaty

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More than 2,000 experts wrapped up a week of talks on plastic pollution on Friday, in one of the biggest global gatherings ever to address what even plastics industry leaders are calling a crisis. It was the first meeting of a United Nations committee set up to draft what is supposed to be a landmark …

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Pacific islands are fighting for their existence before rising sea levels engulf them

Pacific islands are fighting for their existence before rising sea levels engulf them

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Despite contributing less than 0.03% of total global carbon emissions, the Pacific islands are on the front lines of the climate crisis. Entire countries could be submerged under water in the next two to three decades. How do these island states fight for survival? A country is more than its land. A country is its …

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China's rise casts a shadow over Hong Kong's teeming wetlands

China’s rise casts a shadow over Hong Kong’s teeming wetlands

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Hong Kong, China – Barry Ma looks through the lens of his powerful telescope and raises his arm, pointing excitedly. “Here!” he said in a low voice. “Look here.” Ma spotted a pair of little grebes – a duck-like bird, but an unrelated species – swimming on a pond in Hong Kong’s wetlands, nestled in …

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Maldives Minister: Negotiators Reach Agreement on Climate Fund

Maldives Minister: Negotiators Reach Agreement on Climate Fund

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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Negotiators say they have reached a potentially game-changing deal on the thorniest issue of the United Nations climate talks, the creation of a fund to compensate poor countries hit by extreme weather exacerbated by carbon pollution from rich countries. “There is a loss and damage agreement,” is what the negotiators …

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