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We now have proof that conservation funding works

We have no reason not to invest in saving the other species in the world.

New simulation can predict where refugees will flee after a conflict

It has the potential to help aid efforts and save lives.

What Will Earth's Climate Look Like by 2050?

Spoiler alert: it won't be nice.

There is no real debate around 'is climate change real?'

The climate change debate is moot.

In 2016, Coca-Cola produced 1 billion more plastic bottles than in 2015

The forgotten ingredient of a Coke -- plastic.

That study about larvae eating plastic is full of holes

More research needs to be done.

Tapwater around the world is full of microplastics, study reveals

It's literally everywhere.

Lonely microbes become resistant against antibiotics more quickly

Being lonely makes you more desperate.

Most shark fins and ray gills sold in Vancouver come from threatened, trade-banned species

We're literally eating the viability of tomorrow's oceans.

The first new Thorium salt reactor comes online after 40 years

This could be huge.

These are the cities with the worst traffic (continent by continent)

Europe's and North America's leaders are quite surprising.

Fish farming could cover our demand for seafood one hundred times over, paper estimates

Something smells fishy... Oh wait, it's my lunch.

UN declares Somalia polio-free

Soon, we might truly eradicate polio.

The 2017 Earth Overshoot day is here almost a week earlier than last year

That's, ugh, not good.

Pangolin poaching is driving the species extinct, despite international trade ban

Please stop.

New study maps Europe's regional carbon footprints, helps us understand how to reduce emissions

Think global, act local.

Only five nuclear explosions are enough to change the climate and trigger a 'nuclear autumn'

In the case of China's five-megaton bomb, a single throw is enough to destabilize the planet's climate.

How much does the Earth and its population weigh?

Humanity is getting more numerous and fatter while planet Earth itself is getting lighter.

Large carnivores like the lion or tiger lost more than 90% of their range in the last 500 years

Humans need room...

One in five bots sharing fake news during France's presidential election were also involved in the United States'

Oh my, now isn't this a very strange coincidence?

Environment cuts massive rift between US and the rest of the world

The rift widens -- it's Trump vs the world.

Researchers quantify basic rules of ethics and morality, plan to copy them into smart cars, even AI

Be good, drive good.

Bad beef: Despite pledge, Burger King continues to cause massive deforestation

It's up to us, the consumers, to make a difference.

Angela Merkel, German Chancellor: ‘We cannot wait to act until the [climate] science has convinced every last doubter’

There's a big rift between the US and the rest of the world.

Climate-change-induced heat will kill tens of thousands of Americans every year by 2090

Or as the experts call it, Chinese-hoax-induced heat.

Despite Trump, 7,400 cities vow to meet climate committments

Cities seem to have bigger ambitions than those of their countries.

Society will buckle under 2 billion climate-refugees by 2100 as rising oceans displace whole cities

The short of it keeps popping up in all kinds of studies: stop emissions!

Coral reefs barely survived bleaching, will be gone within the century unless we act

And the world will be less without them.

Norway to Brazil: If you keep destroying the Amazon, we'll cut our $1bn funding

Brazil isn't respecting its part of the deal.

Schools in Turkey will stop teaching evolution

“We believe that these subjects are beyond their [students] comprehension,” said a senior Turkish bureaucrat at the Education Ministry.

There will be no renegotiation of the Paris agreement, EU Parliament tells Trump

Uh-oh.

How many obese and overweight people are there in the world?

There's no sugar coating it -- this is massive.

IBM puts its technological might to work solving world problems under the Science for Social Good initiative

I B very happy with this.

As Trump alienates the US from the rest of the world, California Gov. takes up climate talks with China

When life gives you lemons..

"Make our planet great again" -- The world reacts to Trump quitting the Paris Agreement

Trump to Earth: "Screw you." The Earth to Trump: "No, screw you!"

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Disney CEO Bob Iger resign from Trump Presidential Council after Paris Agreement withdrawal announced

You can't advise a man who doesn't want to listen.

Trump puts USA against the world, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement

To put it in Trump language: It's a big, big decision which will have bad, bad consequences. SAD!

Trump to withdraw from Paris Agreement, briefed source claims

This does not bode well.

World leaders distance themselves from Trump's environmental policies in unusually frank statement

Discussions were "intense" and marred by "dissent."

Why 7.5 billion people on Earth is bad news

We are legion!

Stephen Hawking revises his deadline for humans escaping Earth -- it's now just 100 years

Darn.

EPA removes climate science website to "reflect the priorities... of President Trump and Administrator Pruitt"

The new age of censorship.

As neuroscience advances, new human right laws are required to ensure our minds remain our own

Matter over mind.

4 Infographics that clearly illustrate our ecological footprints

What is your footprint?

A modern atlas provides maps necessary to save the world's biodiversity

Originally atlases were invented so that explorers could exploit new lands, this atlas does the opposite.

We just breached the 410 ppm threshold for carbon dioxide -- the highest it's been since the mid-Pliocene

From bad to worse.

Empowering women around the world could help usher in a sustainable society, paper argues

Help them help us.

Science is core to wildlife conservation

Scientists make a stance by marching for science and wildlife.

Some two billion people depend on imported food

Whenever population pressure increases, more food is imported.

The Mesopotamian Venice: The Lost Floating Homes of Iraq

The inspiring story of Marsh Arabs and their amazing sustainable floating homes.

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