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In 1991, 8 people shut themselves for 2 years inside an airtight Arizona dome, and the walls quietly swallowed their oxygen for 475 days before anyone figured out whyEight individuals entered Biosphere 2 in 1991, aiming to live in a self-contained ecosystem for two years. Unexpectedly, oxygen levels plum...- Brazilian government commits $617.5M to Amazon ecological investmentBrazil is investing over 3 billion reais to boost ecological projects in the Amazon. This initiative supports sustainable tourism and the b...
- Ebola outbreak sparks concern in India, US: Should you be worried? Here's what you need to know about signs, symptoms and preventionEbola in India: The WHO has declared the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency with over 300 cases and 88 deaths. In...
- Called up for duty from extinctionTwo marsupial species, the pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, have been rediscovered in West Papua after being consider...
- A Rainforest Once Covered West Antarctica: Sediment Cores Reveal How It VanishedAstonishingly, dense temperate rainforests once flourished near the South Pole 90 million years ago. Fossil evidence from seabed cores reve...
- The Amazon Makes Its Own Rain: How the Rainforest Recycles Moisture to Sustain ItselfThe Amazon rainforest actively generates its own rainfall through a vital moisture recycling process. Trees release vast amounts of water v...
- Central heating silently killing your houseplants? Be ready with these hacks to rescue your greeneryIndoor plants struggle with dry winter air from central heating. Experts advise creating humid microclimates. Grouping plants, using pebble...
- World leaders gather for second day in Brazil, seeking solutions to confront global warmingBrazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday sought to mobilise funding to halt the ongoing destruction of tropical rainforests...
- Irony at its peak? Amazon deforestation sparks outrage as eight miles of thick rainforest cut down in Brazil to build 4-lane highway for COP30 Climate SummitBrazil is constructing an eight-mile highway through the Amazon rainforest, leading to concerns about environmental damage ahead of the COP...
- Canada AI project hopes to help reverse mass insect extinctionCanadian researchers are employing AI and camera traps to monitor the rapid decline of insect populations. The project, called Antenna, aim...
- Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon halved in 2023Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by half last year as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government strengthened environmental...
- How climate change turned lush Hawaii into a tinderboxHawaii's landscape is changing in other ways, beyond becoming drier. As wildfires become more common, some native vegetation, which is poor...
- The women guarding India's rainforest 'refugees'As deforestation and climate change ravage India's UNESCO heritage-listed Western Ghats mountain range, an all-female rainforest force is b...
- Joe Biden urged to work with business, China to protect SE Asia rainforestJoe Biden's election as the next U.S. leader, replacing climate-change sceptic Donald Trump, has raised expectations that protecting Southe...
- No let-up in global rainforest loss as coronavirus brings new dangerTropical rainforests disappeared at a rate of one football pitch every six seconds last year, researchers said on Tuesday, urging countries...
- Guardians of Life: Joaquin Phoenix collaborates with Extinction Rebellion for a short film on climate change
- Pill or Chill?Yhe pursuit of pleasure is one of the legitimate or socially sanctioned ends. It can lend meaning or 'artha' to an otherwise aimless life.
- Leaders of tropical forest nations to meetThe Republic of Congo announced that it will host a climate summit next month for the heads of state of 35 nations covering the three major...
- Asia's rainforests vanishing as timber, food demand surge: ExpertsAsia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, e...
- Biodiversity loss will wipe out cures: ExpertsThe world risks wiping out a huge amount of future antibiotics and disease cures if it fails to reverse the rapid extinction of thousands o...
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