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40 Migratory Species Receive New or Upgraded UN Treaty Protection

Convention on Migratory Species, Bonn, Germany With populations of many migrant wildlife species in deepening

From ‘Water Terrorist’ to ‘Nobel Prize of Water’: Exiled UN Scientist Named 2026 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Toronto Prof. Kaveh Madani, architect of the ‘water

Businesses can either lead transformative change or risk extinction

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Bonn, Germany All businesses depend on

World enters “era of global water bankruptcy”; UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions

UNU Institute For Water, Environment and Health, Toronto Flagship report calls for fundamental reset of

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

Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, New York Renaissance artworks and historical documents associated with Leonardo

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

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

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

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

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

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

IPBES: Two reports light ways to sustainability

IPBES, Bonn 1) Nexus Assessment Report: Tackle together five interlinked global crises in biodiversity, water,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zakri columns: Science Diplomacy and Sustainability

Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia Selected columns, New Straits Times national newspaper, Kuala

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sand and dust storm frequency increasing in many world regions: UN

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Two billion tons of sand and dust, equal

UN Warns of 6 Risk Tipping Points Threatening the Environment, Security

UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security A United Nations University report finds that drastic

Leading scientists, philosophers identify nature’s missing evolutionary law

Carnegie Science, Washington DC Evolution of plants, animals: “A very special case within a far

‘Invisible’ E-Waste: ~$10B in essential raw materials recoverable in world’s annual mountain of e-toys, cables, vapes, more

WEEE Forum, Brussels, Belgium Every year, unused cables, electronic toys, LED-decorated novelty clothes, power tools,

Did life exist on Mars? Other planets? With AI’s help, we may know soon

Carnegie Science, Washington DC ‘Holy Grail of astrobiology’: Machine learning technique reveals a sample’s biological

Invasive Alien Species: Major Global Threats to Nature, Economies, Food Security, Human Health

IPBES, Bonn, Germany Key role in 60% of global plant and animal extinctions; Annual costs

Amid growing evidence of harm to child health and learning, advocates call for faster replacement of diesel school buses

Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment, Ottawa Health and environmental advocates today called on

Do fish bay at the moon? Can songs unmask mystery fish? Eavesdropping scientists create ocean soundscapes

The Rockefeller University, Programme for the Human Environment, New York Using hydrophones to eavesdrop on

UN: Bottled water masks world’s failure to supply safe water for all, can slow sustainable development

UNU-INWEH: UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health), Hamilton, Canada The rapidly-growing bottled water

Large dams’ capacity seen dropping 26% by 2050 due to sediment: UN

UNU Institute For Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada Trapped sediment has robbed roughly 50,000

Introduction to Construction Economics PDF Cost Of Living Macroeconomics

There has been no consistent increase in volume to support jobs growth since the 1st

COP15: Nations Adopt 4 Goals, 23 Targets for 2030 in Landmark UN Biodiversity Agreement

UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal By 2030: Protect 30% of Earth’s lands, oceans, coastal

UN Announces Satellite-Based Global Methane Detection System

United Nations Environment Programme, Paris / Nairobi As part of global efforts to slow climate

UN Biodiversity COP 15: What’s on the Table, What to Expect

United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada Key negotiating issues defined and detailed: A

~5.3 Billion Mobile Phones will Become Waste in 2022

WEEE Forum, Brussels 2022 International E-waste Day slogan: ‘Recycle it all, no matter how small!’

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