By Lisa Kelly, Senior Research Assistant, Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation, Carleton University
Trina Rytwinski, Senior Research Scientist, Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation, Carleton University
Global biodiversity is declining, and human activities are mainly to blame.
Indeed, 96 per cent of the world’s total remaining mammalian biomass — the combined weight, or mass, of mammal organic life — consists of either humans or our domesticated animals.
Every day across the world, conservation organizations, community members, conservation scientists and law enforcement authorities work tirelessly to counter this biodiversity…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Pro-democracy protesters during a mourning ceremony for Netiporn “Bung” Sanesangkhom, a Thai political activist, outside the Southern Bangkok Criminal Court on May 14, 2024. © 2024 Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Image/Sipa USA via AP Photo Thai anti-monarchy activist Netiporn “Bung” Sanesangkhom, 28, died in custody in Bangkok today while on a hunger strike she began in January.Netiporn brought attention to Thailand’s cruel use of its lese majeste (insulting the monarchy) law, which punishes critics of the monarchy with up to 15 years in prison. Thai authorities had paused…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Vietnamese activists hold a photo of dead fish allegedly killed with toxic chemicals during a protest to urge Formosa Plastics Group to take responsibility for the cleanup in Vietnam, August 10, 2016, in Taipei, Taiwan. © 2016 Chiang Ying-ying/AP Photo In April 2016, Vietnam experienced one of the worst environmental disasters in its history when Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, a subsidiary of the Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group, discharged toxic chemical waste off the coast of Ha Tinh province, killing millions of fish and destroying the livelihoods of fishing communities.Afterwards,…
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By Mary Gagen, Professor of Physical Geography, Swansea University
The summer of 2023 was the warmest in the non-tropical areas of the northern hemisphere for 2,000 years, a new study has shown.
Across this vast area of land, encompassing Europe, Asia and North America, surface air temperatures were more than 2°C higher in June, July and August 2023 than the average summer temperature between AD1 and 1890, as reconstructed from tree ring records.
While climate change is a global phenomenon, warming on a regional scale is often stronger. And it is regional…
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By Emily Ireland, Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
Swift knows her lyrics will be scrutinised. So maybe she should have done a bit more research before saying she wanted to live in the 1830s.
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By Jim Wild, Professor of Space Physics, Lancaster University
At the weekend, millions of people around the world were treated to a mesmerising display of the aurora borealis and aurora australis, better known as the northern and southern lights. The lights, usually seen in crown-like regions surrounding the Earth’s poles, were pushed to mid-latitudes by heightened activity from the Sun.
The same geomagnetic…
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By Niall Cunningham, Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography, Newcastle University
Calls to ‘close the border’ are an uncomfortable contradiction to Brexit-era efforts to avoid a hard border at all costs.
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By Richard Youngs, Professor of International and European Politics, University of Warwick
Some believe that the war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed Europe, giving birth to a different kind of European order. That is, it appears to be driving structural shifts in the way Europe is run and organised that extend well beyond the immediate imperative of helping Ukraine fight the war. European integration is deepening in some areas, like defence and security, and the EU looks set to extend its geographical borders to take…
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By Michael Head, Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
There have been 2,793 confirmed cases of whooping cough so far this year – and, tragically, five infant deaths due to the infection.
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By Matthew Sparkes, Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Cambridge
There are 8.5 million households in the UK who own a home with a residential mortgage, often with fixed interest rates from two to five years. Usually, when that mortgage deal ends, the borrower will move to another deal from the same or a different lender.
But not everyone can do this. Changes in regulatory measures after the 2008 financial crisis have left tens of thousands of borrowers in the UK trapped…
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