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Crayons of the Seas: A Visual Exploration of Marine Biodiversity with Satellite Imagery

Planet Pulse

What do crayons, satellites, and marine biodiversity have in common? The Crayons of the Seas project by SKY Perfect JSAT , one of Asia’s largest satellite communication companies based in Japan. The team hoped that this feature would spark curiosity in learning more about marine biodiversity.

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REPORT: Wildlife loss is increasing rapidly. Changing our food production systems can alleviate this loss

AFN Sustainable Protein

Global wildlife populations fell 69% between 1970 and 2018, according to the World Wide Fund For Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) in its Living Planet Report. Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. Links between food systems, forests and biodiversity.

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Integrated Review: Climate action installed as UK's 'number one international priority'

Business Green

The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority," Johnson wrote in the foreword to the report.

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For a livable future, 60% of oil and gas must stay in the ground

Grist

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 There is substantial uncertainty as to whether these largely unproven technologies can be deployed as quickly, and at the scale required, and just how sustainable they are,” Price continued.

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'Planting trees is highly complex': Experts draw up 'golden rules' for reforestation projects

Business Green

Reforestation can capture CO2, boost biodiversity, and is a key component of many firms' net zero strategies, but handled incorrectly it can also have disastrous environmental impacts, scientists warn. Tree planting is now a very big deal. Corporate efforts to combat the issue have also largely failed.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.