Coastal ecosystems ‘bright spots’ for repairing marine ecosystems Date: December 21, 2020 Source: CSIRO Australia Summary: Scientists have identified coastal ‘bright spots’ to repair marine ecosystems globally, paving the way to boost biodiversity, local economies and human wellbeing. Share: FULL STORY CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has identified coastal ‘bright spots’ to repair marine ecosystems […]
Asahi Survival Survey 2020 Doomsday Clock
The Asahi Glass Foundation Announces the Results of the 29th Annual “Questionnaire on Environmental Problems and the Survival of Humankind” ● The average time on the Environmental Doomsday Clock is now 9:47, the same as that in 2018 when the strongest sense of environment crisis was felt since launching the survey in 1992. This is […]
Its So Popular No-one Goes there Anymore
How Is Overtourism Impacting Travel To Popular Destinations? The time of Covid has hit the pause button on most world travel. If we are fortunate there will be the opportunity to reassess how we travel, where and how we are prepared to deal with the impacts. In the article which follows, Johnny Jet writes […]
A Whale of good news tale
Blue whales have ‘rediscovered’ South Georgia By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent Published9 hours ago IMAGE COPYRIGHTAMY KENNEDYAn Antarctic blue whale surfaces off South Georgia The resurgence of blue whales around the island of South Georgia is real and has probably been under way for a little while now, say scientists. When a survey was […]
Open Pandemica’s Box
Pandemic Era A warming world is expanding the range of deadly diseases and risking an explosion of new zoonotic pathogens from the likes of bats, mosquitoes, and ticks By JEFF GOODELL Illustration by Jason Holley for Rolling Stone Jennifer Jones spent most of her summer at home, as so many of us did, trying to […]