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The online wildlife trade carries the risk of another pandemic
“We found no, or very few, people addressing the links between COVID-19 and the wildlife trade."
Tree-ring study finds heat rise trims lifespan of tropical trees
If tropical trees die earlier, it will affect how much carbon these forests can hold and raises concern over CO2 emissions offsets.
Camels in the Arabian Desert are dying of plastic waste
In Dubai alone hundreds of camels are known to have succumbed to plastic pollution.
Indigenous people in the US hope to save salmon by removing dams
Salmon in the Klamath River in the United States were once abundant. They no longer are.
Habitat loss is driving human-elephant conflicts in Thailand
Elephants feature prominently in religious and national iconography in Thailand, but the jumbos have fallen on hard times.
Carpathian Convention: A call to protect European forests
"The impacts will only intensify, damaging not just ecosystems, but societies and economies," warns UNEP's Inger Andersen. "Member states must get ahead of the game before it gets worse,"