biodiversity

The race to save post-glacial landscapes amidst glacier retreat

By Amélie HERENSTEIN LES CONTAMINES, France, Oct 19, 2023 (AFP) - Water surged through a desolate canyon of grey rock…

Biodiversity crisis | Videographic

https://youtu.be/KepGdwKFrG8 UN biodiversity talks opened in Montreal on Wednesday, in what is being billed as the "last best chance" to…

Twin crises: experts say nature and climate can’t be siloed

PARIS, France (AFP) - Experts and activists were hoping UN climate talks would end last week with a prominent mention of…

Nature’s cleaners: Cyprus returns rare vultures to wild

KORFI, Cyprus (AFP) - With a wingspan as wide as a basketball hoop is tall, it took just a few…

Will big biodiversity ambitions be enough to save nature?

by Laure FILLON Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - After the world missed almost all of its targets to protect…

Ukraine war rattles EU green farming plan

by Laure FILLON Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - Scientists are urging Europe not to delay the transition to greener…

More protected areas won’t save biodiversity, warn experts

by Laure FILLON / Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) - Expanding nature preserves will not be enough to…

The women guarding India’s rainforest ‘refugees’

by Laurence THOMANN Agence France-Presse WAYANAD, India (AFP) - As deforestation and climate change ravage India's UNESCO heritage-listed Western Ghats…

Conservation meet mulls moratorium on deep sea mining

by Laure FILLON Agence France-Presse MARSEILLE, France (AFP) - The world's top conservation forum will vote this week on whether…

Conservation meet mulls plan to protect 80% of Amazon

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse MARSEILLE, France (AFP) - Should 80 percent of the Amazon be declared a protected area…

Plastic threatens migratory species in Asia-Pacific: UN

by Kelly MACNAMARA PARIS, France (AFP) -- From endangered freshwater dolphins drowned by discarded fishing nets to elephants scavenging through…

Multiple eco-crises could trigger ‘systemic collapse’: scientists

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse Paris, France (AFP) — Overlapping environmental crises could tip the planet into "global systemic collapse," more…

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