Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, New York Renaissance artworks and historical documents associated with Leonardo da Vinci continue to preserve measurable biological traces shaped by centuries of human contact and environmental exposure, according to an international study published today. Leonardo DNA Project researchers used minimally invasive techniques to sample drawings, sketches, and archival correspondence linked […]
Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC New method also detects molecular signs of photosynthesis almost 1 billion years earlier than previously documented; Combining chemistry and AI, pioneering method could revolutionize search for extraterrestrial life Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh chemical evidence of Earth’s earliest life – […]
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Food, water, energy crises, human tragedies in 2023-2025 detailed in sweeping analysis Fuelled by climate change and relentless pressure on land and water resources, some of the most widespread and damaging drought events in recorded history have taken place since 2023, according to a UN-backed report launched today. Prepared […]
Leonardo DNA Project, New York / Florence Ancient Da Vinci family tomb: excavated remains undergo analysis VINCI, Italy — For over five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for his extraordinary talent and groundbreaking experiments. Today, an international collaboration known as the Leonardo DNA Project is closer […]
Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health And Environment, Toronto As Canadians face increasingly intense and frequent heat waves, health, education and legal experts are sounding the alarm on a growing crisis: extreme heat in schools and child care settings due to the escalating effects of climate change. Amid Government of Canada warnings of near record heat […]
UN University Institute for the Environment and Human Security, Bonn Amid deepening inequalities and escalating crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, a new United Nations report presents a bold approach for change. The 2025 Interconnected Disaster Risks report, Turning Over a New Leaf, issued by the UN University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), shifts focus […]
The Rockefeller University, Programme for the Human Environment, New York City A new study documents the dramatic change in America’s material diet from 1900 to 2020 – ongoing shifts in US commodity consumption patterns with profound environmental, economic, and geopolitical implications. Published by Iddo K. Wernick of The Rockefeller University’s Program for the Human Environment […]
Terry Collins & Assoc., Toronto News prepared and shared on behalf of clients this year included reports on the state of the world’s migratory species, on 3/4ths of lands worldwide getting drier, on the rapid global growth of e-waste, on transformative ways to repair the planet, and on a novel way to raise billions of […]
IPBES, Bonn 1) Nexus Assessment Report: Tackle together five interlinked global crises in biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change >70 response options assessed for maximum co-benefits across cascading or compounding crises; Unaccounted-for costs of current approaches estimated to be at least US$10-25 trillion per year Environmental, social and economic crises – such as biodiversity […]
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Aridity: The ‘existential crisis’ redefining life on Earth; Five billion people could be affected by 2100 Even as dramatic water-related disasters such as floods and storms intensified in some parts of the world, more than three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in recent decades, UN scientists warned today […]
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Land degradation undermining Earth’s capacity to sustain humanity; Failure to reverse it will pose challenges for generations; 7 of 9 planetary boundaries are negatively impacted by unsustainable land use, highlighting land’s central role in Earth systems A major new scientific report charts an urgent course correction for how the […]
United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal CALI, Colombia — The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) was suspended in the morning of Nov. 2 but not before countries agreed on an expanded role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in saving biodiversity and a groundbreaking […]
Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris An international group of leaders and experts warns that unless humanity acts with greater boldness and urgency, an increasingly out-of-balance water cycle will wreak havoc on economies and humanity worldwide. In a landmark report, The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good, […]
WEEE Forum, Brussels To mark International E-Waste Day, Oct. 14, consumers worldwide are urged to collect dead and/or unused electronics and electrical products and give them a second life through reuse or repair, or recycle them properly. Above all: stop tossing them out in household waste bins. The Global E-waste Monitor 2024, authored by UNITAR […]
Earth4All, Winterthur, Switzerland Nearly three out of four people (72%) surveyed across 18 G20 countries support making it a criminal offence for government or leaders of large businesses to approve or permit actions which cause serious damage to nature and climate, finds major new research. This finding is part of the latest Global Commons Survey […]
Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia Selected columns, New Straits Times national newspaper, Kuala Lumpur “I hope that this volume, containing opinions from 2020 to the present, will provide some insights into the challenges of sustainable development, the hot-button issues facing the global community and how each of us could reflect on the steps […]
Giant Screen Films, Evanston IL Skeleton may reveal secrets of T. rex growth years; Narrated by Sir Sam Neill, documentary brings Teen Rex to life with animation Marmarth, ND – Three keen-eyed young fossil hunters made the discovery of a lifetime when they found the remains of a rare teenage Tyrannosaurus rex that could rewrite history, scientists and […]
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Bonn/Ulaanbaatar – Degradation of Earth’s extensive, often immense natural pastures and other rangelands due to overuse, misuse, climate change and biodiversity loss poses a severe threat to humanity’s food supply and the wellbeing or survival of billions of people, the UN warns in a stark report today. Authors of the Global […]
CDN Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) / CDN Environmental Law Association On Healthy Environments for Learning Day, environmental and child health advocates cite growing concern about indoor air quality in educational settings; Prominent national institutions issue urgent call for government action The COVID-19 pandemic, smoke from raging wildfires, and extreme heat waves have intensified concerns […]
UNITAR, Bonn, and International Telecommunication Union, Geneva A record 62 million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced in 2022, Up 82% from 2010; On track to rise another 32%, to 82 million tonnes, in 2030; Billions of dollars worth of strategically-valuable resources squandered, dumped; Just 1% of rare earth element demand is met by e-waste […]
United Nations Convention on Migratory Species, Bonn Germany The first-ever State of the World’s Migratory Species report was launched today by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a UN biodiversity treaty, at the opening of a major UN wildlife conservation conference (CMS COP14). The landmark report reveals: While some migratory species […]
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn UNCCD launches ‘Global Drought Snapshot’ report at COP28 in collaboration with International Drought Resilience Alliance (IDRA) Recent drought-related data based on research in the past two years and compiled by the UN point to “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale, where the massive impacts of human-induced droughts […]