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Researchers and Indigenous groups collaborate to save caribou

  • Bonface Landi
  • 10/19/2021

Scientists are working with Indigenous communities to change the fate of Arctic caribou herds threatened by climate change. Habitat loss has caused a 56% decline in North America's wild caribou population over the past 20 years, a situation that scientists and Indigenous conservation groups are determined to change. Recently,...

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United Nations rejects youth activist climate petition

  • Teresa Bergen
  • 10/19/2021

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child declined to rule on a complaint filed by youth activists from twelve countries. The young adults claimed that Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey have violated children’s rights by failing to control carbon emissions, despite knowing about the...

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Multifunctional award-winning site built on underused land

  • KC Morgan
  • 10/19/2021

Les Ateliers Cabot is the winning project for C40 Reinventing Montreal 2021, which is part of the Reinventing Cities project. It is a call for designers and architects to come up with project ideas that will create carbon-neutral urban areas in underused sites into great new developments. These projects are meant...

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Volvo teams up with Phillip Lim on sustainable weekender bag

  • Dawn Hammon
  • 10/18/2021

In a collaboration between iconic Volvo and well-established sustainable luxury brand 3.1 Phillip Lim, they have developed a limited-edition weekender bag made from the same bio-based material being used in Volvo’s electric cars.  The announcement is no surprise, considering the focus of both...

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Innovative biophilic design planned for new village in Portugal

  • Dawn Hammon
  • 10/18/2021

A new development is in the works, designed to sit on a Portuguese hillside and provide a community with unique characteristics and a focus on sustainable design, function, well-being and innovation. The project is dubbed Fuse Valley. It’s a collaboration between Farfetch, the leading global technology...

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Underwater coral gardens may help avoid a biodiversity meltdown

  • Bonface Landi
  • 10/18/2021

Planting diverse corals under the sea could help save threatened coral reef ecosystems, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances on October 13. The study, conducted by Cody Clements and Mark Hay of the Georgia Institute of Technology, found that increasing...

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  • Dawn Hammon
  • 10/18/2021

According to the National Interagency Fire Center, 6,480,861 acres have burned across the United States this year alone as a result of 47,201 wildfires. In response, a Seattle-based company is tackling the issue of replanting and restoring forestry health in a rather science-fiction way.  DroneSeed...

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  • Bonface Landi
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  • Grae Gleason
  • 10/15/2021

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  • Bonface Landi
  • 10/15/2021

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