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Coronavirus is a wake-up call: our war with the environment is leading to pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world is a crisis of our own making. That’s the message from infectious disease and environmental health experts, and from those in planetary health…
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Climate explained: why switching to electric transport makes sense even if electricity is not fully renewable
Shutterstock Robert McLachlan, Massey University Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you…
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Climate change is harder to visualise than coronavirus, but no less dangerous
Covid-19 has so far caused more than 130,000 deaths worldwide. These are grim numbers from the World Health Organisation, the actual human suffering is impossible to measure. By comparison, the…
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How to be an activist from home during the coronavirus lockdown
In a moment when the way to show we care is by keeping our distance as much as possible, fighting effectively for a safe and just society and planet can…
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Can the coronavirus pandemic sound the alarm on climate change?
In the past few weeks, our entire planet has been experiencing an unprecedented crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with extremely significant losses on many levels. I am a professor…
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Explore the ocean from home: videos to transport you
Protect the Oceans. Swim with seals, escapism videos involving the oceans.
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An ecology reading list for self-isolating environmentalists
The social isolation response to the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in our lifetimes. Perhaps not since the economic depression of the 1930s and World War II has the human family…
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How the deep ocean is helping in the fight against Covid-19
To fight Covid-19 the World Health Organisation has told all countries: test, test, test. Around the world, doctors are testing thousands of people for the virus every day. But did you know the deep ocean has been in integral in the development of the test to diagnose Covid-19?
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Covid-19: compassion, cooperation, courage, choice
Dear friends, The consequences of the covid-19 pandemic are – and will be – defined by choices. Those choices should be based upon values, not value: compassion, courage and cooperation.…
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What happened at SPRFMO
Five days in Vanuatu for work hardly seems like a tough sell. But spending five days as an environmental observer at an international fisheries meeting (SPRFMO) is a strange experience.