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Mitsui And Miura’s HQ Microplastic Collection Device Gains Industry Recognition
A microplastic (MP) collection device called HQ, developed in a revolutionary partnership between Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Miura Co., Ltd., has been certified as an Innovation Endorsement by Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (Class NK). This endorsement acknowledges HQ as an advanced maritime industry solution under the “Products and Solutions” category. Image Credits: MOL During…
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Your Environment This Week: Porcupines in saffron fields, Balancing conservation and national security, Waste management in Ladakh
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch the latest high quality, original video stories from nature’s frontline in India. To receive a weekly email roundup of stories, please sign-up for our newsletter. More tourists, more garbage in Leh With no solid waste management policy in…
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Your Environment This Week: Porcupines in saffron fields, Balancing conservation and national security, Waste management in Ladakh
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch the latest high quality, original video stories from nature’s frontline in India. To receive a weekly email roundup of stories, please sign-up for our newsletter. More tourists, more garbage in Leh With no solid waste management policy in…
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A Different Approach to Climate Action
What if we actually succeed in addressing the crisis? There’s no shortage of reasons to be alarmed by climate change these days. This year is almost certain to be the hottest in recorded history. Extreme weather is wreaking havoc around the globe. Fossil fuel production and emissions are still rising, and world leaders are not…
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A Different Approach to Climate Action
What if we actually succeed in addressing the crisis? There’s no shortage of reasons to be alarmed by climate change these days. This year is almost certain to be the hottest in recorded history. Extreme weather is wreaking havoc around the globe. Fossil fuel production and emissions are still rising, and world leaders are not…
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What does an El Niño winter mean for Florida red tide?
Florida’s Gulf Coast is approaching the end of an above-average hurricane season and record marine heat, but it’s been a lackluster fall for what’s become a common beachgoers’ experience: red tide. Last year, Tampa Bay-area red tide outbreaks started in November and lasted through the winter. The toxic algae kept many people off local beaches…
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What does an El Niño winter mean for Florida red tide?
Florida’s Gulf Coast is approaching the end of an above-average hurricane season and record marine heat, but it’s been a lackluster fall for what’s become a common beachgoers’ experience: red tide. Last year, Tampa Bay-area red tide outbreaks started in November and lasted through the winter. The toxic algae kept many people off local beaches…
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AI can help preserve natural resources: official
TEHRAN – Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to protect water, soil, and natural habitats, according to an official with the Department of Environment. Today, artificial intelligence has greatly affected the lives of many people and in the not-too-distant future, it will be used to perform different tasks in developed countries without human intervention, IRNA…
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WWF launches Oceans Futures program to predict climate-driven fisheries conflict
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a new platform intended to identify areas that are likely to experience maritime conflict or food insecurity due to climate-driven fisheries migration. The Oceans Futures program, launched at The Halifax International Security Forum on 18 November, is a response to a 20-fold increase in fisheries conflict over the…
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Medicinal leeches poised for comeback in Scottish Highlands
The medicinal leech is one of nature’s least loved hunters. Armed with three strong interlocking jaws and with a taste for blood, they will swim hungrily towards humans, deer or cattle that wander into their ponds to bathe, fish or drink. Yet this small predator is the focus of an unlikely reintroduction programme by conservationists…