A series of super tusker elephant killings has sparked a bitter international battle over trophy hunting and its controversial, often-counterintuitive role in conservation. Biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston speaks to Amy Dickman, professor of wildlife conservation at the University of Oxford, about why this debate has become so divisive, and the complexities of allowing killing in conservation
Trophy hunter killings spark fierce battle over the future of super tusker elephants
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07/24/2024 - 23:00
07/24/2024 - 23:00
Change equivalent to removing 200,000 cars for a year, with capital’s air quality improving at faster rate than rest of England
Levels of harmful air pollutants have dropped significantly since the ultra-low emission zone was enlarged to cover Greater London last year, according to a report from city hall.
Analysis covering the first six months since the Ulez expansion found that total emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from cars across London were 13% lower than projected had the scheme remained confined to inner London, while NOx from vans was 7% lower.
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07/24/2024 - 21:42
Rural group argues it’s harmful for families to be getting up ‘in the dark’ while city dwellers enjoy more outdoor activities after work
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Daylight saving. It’s an issue that divides the nation, pitting the bush against the city and states and territories against each other.
Now, there are fresh calls from farmers to further fragment Australia’s complicated array of timezones.
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07/24/2024 - 16:02
Father says Grace Rohloff, 20, lost footing about three-quarters into 400ft cables descent and slid down mountain
A father-daughter hike that began with an Arizona college student checking off a bucket list item ended tragically when she was killed after falling down Yosemite’s Half Dome earlier this month.
Grace Rohloff, a 20-year-old hiker, and her father, Jonathan Rohloff, were descending the cables at Yosemite’s summit when she slipped and fell on 13 July, as reported by SFGate. The 14- to 16-mile round-trip hike to Half Dome is known for its difficulty and requires hikers to obtain permits in advance.
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07/24/2024 - 13:09
Campaigners say sudden sale suggests Abrdn’s use of Scottish countryside was ‘get-rich-quick scheme’
A Scottish estate that became a lightning rod for disputes over wealthy “green lairds” buying up the Highlands has been unexpectedly put up for sale.
The Far Ralia estate in the Cairngorms has gone on the market for £12m, three years after it was bought for £7.5m by an investment trust run by Standard Life, now Abrdn, as a way to offset carbon emissions from its properties.
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07/24/2024 - 11:30
Using trees as a cost-effective tool against climate change is more complicated than simply planting large numbers of them, an international collaboration has shown.
07/24/2024 - 10:57
Data shows that the global surface air temperature reached 62.87F compared with 62.76F on Sunday.
World temperature reached the hottest levels ever measured on Monday, beating the record that was set just one day before, data suggests.
Provisional data published on Wednesday by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which holds data that stretches back to 1940, shows that the global surface air temperature reached 62.87F (17.15C), compared with 62.76F (17.09C) on Sunday.
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07/24/2024 - 10:28
Researchers uncover ‘remarkable new way in which trees provide a vital climate service’ by reducing emissions
Microbes in the bark of trees play a vital role in removing methane from the atmosphere, scientists have discovered.
The greenhouse gas is a product of agriculture and the burning of fossil fuels and is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide. However, it remains in the atmosphere for a shorter time.
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07/24/2024 - 10:00
No country has ever in history produced as much oil and gas as the US does now and Louisiana is ground zero
Revealed: wealthy western countries lead in global oil and gas expansion
To witness how the United States has become the world’s unchallenged oil and gas behemoth is to contemplate the scene from John Allaire’s home, situated on a small spit of coastal land on the fraying, pancake-flat western flank of Louisiana.
Allaire’s looming neighbor, barely a mile east across a ship channel that has been pushed into the Gulf of Mexico, is a hulking liquified natural gas (or LNG) plant, served by leviathan ships shuttling its chilled cargo overseas. Another such terminal lies a few miles to the west, yet another to the north. The theme continues even in Allaire’s seaward vista – alongside a boneyard of old oil rigs, a new floating offshore LNG platform is in the works.
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07/24/2024 - 10:00
Krusatodon kirtlingtonensis, which lived 166m years ago, ‘a piece of the puzzle’ explaining mammals’ success
The remains of a diminutive mouse-like creature that lived 166m years ago could help answer one of biology’s biggest questions of why mammals have become so successful, fossil experts say.
Krusatodon kirtlingtonensis belongs to the immediate predecessors of mammals and lived alongside the dinosaurs during the middle Jurassic age. But while it was originally known only from individual teeth, researchers have now reported two partial skeletons.
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