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Leonardo’s Art Still Carries a Biological Record of Its History

Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, New York Surface DNA from artworks reveals biological patterns Findings offer clues, not conclusions: Research continues ondefinitive genetic identification of

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Chemical evidence of ancient life detected in 3.3 billion-year-old rocks

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

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Global drought hotspots report catalogs severe suffering, economic damage in 2023-2025

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

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Search for Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA narrows as researchers confirm six living relatives share a family Y chromosome

Leonardo DNA Project, New York / Florence Ancient Da Vinci family tomb: excavated remains undergo analysis VINCI, Italy — For over five centuries, Leonardo Da

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Canadian experts urge protection for children from escalating heat in schools and child care settings

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

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Five deep changes urgently needed for a sustainable world and how to achieve them

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

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The material revolution: How USA’s commodity appetite evolved from 1900 to present

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

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In the News 2024

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,

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IPBES: Two reports light ways to sustainability

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

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Three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in last three decades: UN

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

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Planetary boundaries: Confronting the global crisis of land degradation; Potsdam Institute report opens UNCCD COP 16

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

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Biodiversity COP 16: Important Agreements Reached Towards Making Peace with Nature 

United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal CALI, Colombia  — The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

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8% GDP loss by 2050 foreseen due to water crisis: Global Commission on the Economics of Water

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,

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E-waste experts urge: Stop trashing electronic products with ordinary garbage

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

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Causing environmental damage should be a criminal offence, say 72% of people surveyed in G20 countries

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

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Zakri columns: Science Diplomacy and Sustainability

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

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Kids find, help excavate rare teen T.rex, chronicled in extraordinary documentary

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

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Rangelands’ ‘silent demise’ threatens climate, food, wellbeing of billions

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

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COVID, wildfires, heat waves underline need for better air quality norms in schools, child care

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

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Electronic waste generation rising 5 times faster than recycling: UN

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

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Landmark UN report reveals shocking state of world’s migratory animals

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

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Drought data shows “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale”: UN

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

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