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PARIS, France (AFP) — The world added a record 138.5 gigawatts of renewable power capacity in 2016 despite a 23 percent drop in investment, reflecting the falling cost of clean energy, the United Nations announced Thursday. The new energy — mainly from wind and solar installations, but not including large hydro projects — was up eight percent from the previous year, on global investment of $242 billion (227 billion euros). Investment in fossil fuel-based energy […]
by Paulina Abramovich ESTACION YUNGAY, Chile (AFP) — Chile’s Atacama desert may seem to contain little besides red-grey rocks and sand — but scientists are busy searching here for clues to life in a place it much resembles: Mars. This desert in northern Chile, like the red planet, is hot, dusty and extremely dry. Yet life exists here: tiny algae and bacteria that have evolved to survive in the parched earth on little more than […]
by Richard Ingham PARIS, France (AFP) — The beast goes by the Latin monicker of Acanthaster planci, but it is known to us as the crown-of-thorns — a venomous starfish that is ravaging our precious coral reefs. One of many threats to coral, the large, spine-studded species is capable of chewing through kilometers (miles) of reefs when large numbers of it gather and spawn. In desperation, guardians of reefs in the Indian Ocean and Pacific […]
CHITWAN, Nepal (AFP) — Conservationists on Monday captured a rare one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal as part of an attempt to increase the number of the vulnerable animals, which are prized by wildlife poachers. Five rhinos — one male and four female — will be released into a national park in Nepal’s far west over the coming week in the hope of establishing a new breeding group. The first, a large male estimated to be around […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A diver spotted an unusual pink fish swimming in an underwater grotto in Germany, and researchers now say it is the first known cave fish ever discovered in Europe. The fish, known as a loach in the genus Barbatula, was found in the dark, remote, frigid underground caverns at the junction of the Danube River and Aachtopf springs in southern Germany, said the study in Current Biology. Until now, more […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Manatees are no longer an endangered species, United States officials said Thursday, declaring success after decades of efforts to rebuild the population of the chubby sea cows in Florida and the Caribbean region. The population of West Indian manatees in Florida is now around population of 6,620, “a dramatic turnaround from the 1970s, when just a few hundred individuals remained,” said a statement from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. […]
CHESTER, ENGLAND, United Kingdom (Reuters) — A quartet of eye-catching new individuals arrived at Chester Zoo, England. Native to Madagascar, the distinctive looking lowland streaked tenrecs are “striped like a bee and covered in spines like a hedgehog,” the zoo said in an e-mail. A video shot on Monday (March 27) shows the little known animals as they explore their habitat at the facility. The new arrivals are believed to be the only lowland streaked […]
Reuters — A study of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana and Kermadec trenches has found man-made pollutants in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean. Small crustaceans called amphipods, which populate the deepest recesses of the Pacific, were found to contain disturbingly large levels of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the organism’s fatty tissue. Voracious eaters who will eat anything that comes their way, amphipods are ideal for such research. Amphipod samples brought to the surface […]
by Tristan MCCONNELL Agence France-Presse NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China and published Wednesday by the conservation group Save the Elephants. At its peak in 2014 the estimated wholesale price for raw ivory stood at $2,100 (1,900 euros) per kilogram on the Chinese black market, but by early 2017 the price had fallen to $730 per kilogram, […]
THAILAND (Reuters) — Footage of Indochinese tigers and their cubs have been captured in Thailand’s eastern jungle, confirming the world’s second breeding population of the critically endangered cats is there, wildlife conservationists said on Wednesday (March 29). Evidence from 156 camera traps documented at least six cubs from four female tigers in the country’s eastern jungle – the first evidence of tigers breeding in the eastern area in more than 15 years. The cameras that captured […]
Bumaba ang bilang ng mga tao sa Luzon na nakiisa sa Earth Hour 2017, habang tumaas naman sa Visayas at Mindanao. Ang Earth Hour ay nag-umpisa sa Sydney, Australia sampung taon na ang nakalilipas, hanggang sa naging largest open-sourced environment campaign ito sa buong mundo. https://youtu.be/JIf5YqV4Grk
by Catherine TRIOMPHE Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — With a skyline crowded with ever-more luxury towers, the construction of another Manhattan skyscraper wouldn’t normally be remarkable. But the American Copper Buildings going up on the East River — a complex of two towers with 764 apartments, panoramic views and a huge entrance hall with a doorman — is different. Planned just after deadly Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York in October 2012 […]
