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The small ice-free areas of Antarctica are essential locations for both biodiversity and scientific research but are subject to considerable and expanding human impacts, resulting primarily from station-based research and support activities, and local tourism. Awareness by operators of the need to conserve natural values in and around station and visitor site footprints exists, but the cumulative nature of impacts often results in reactive rather than proactive management. With human activity sp...

Earth.Org is proud to have hosted the 2023 Global Wildlife & Natural World Photography Competition, and extends heartfelt gratitude to all participants. The event saw nearly 1,000 entries from photographers, conservationists, and nature enthusiasts worldwide, all driven by a love for the environment

Statement by Sophie Orr, Regional Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross for the Americas, during the CARICOM Conference on The Human Impacts of Autonomous Weapons, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (5-6 September 2023).

A 2,200-year-old, doughnut-shaped Andean condor deposit is giving researchers a glimpse into how natural- and human-caused changes over time have affected the at-risk species, and perhaps other wildlife, as well

AUTONOMOUS weapons pose a clear and present danger to the Caribbean. Action to ban them should be seriously considered now...

Autonomous weapons pose a clear and present danger to the Caribbean. Action to ban them should be seriously considered now. This is one of four recommendation that I made in an address to a conference on September 5, organised by the Caribbean...

Stay far away from that cocaine and call the police.Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds is urging citizens to do what he would do, should he stumble upon cocaine that

In recent decades. its one thing to talk about climate change in the abstract, quite another to consider real human impacts. this whole town is having to rebuild after the recent floods and all these businesses, theyve been completely trashed by the floodwaters, and the people here, they dont know how theyre going to be able to get back to the way their lives were. both this mans shops in zhuozhou, hebei province, were submerged by the floodwaters. translation: it will take me 8-10 years to reco...

In the abstract, quite another to consider real human impacts. this whole town is having to rebuild after the recent floods and all these businesses, theyve been completely trashed by the floodwaters, and the people here, they dont know how theyre going to be able to get back to the way their lives were. both this mans shops in zhuozhou, hebei province, were submerged by the floodwaters. translation: it will take me 8-10 years to recover - from these losses. the government has not said whether i...

Chinese scientists are blaming climate change, warning that extreme weather events are hitting the country more frequently, and with greater devastation than ever before. our china correspondent stephen mcdonell visited luoxingdun island, in the countrys flood plain in the south, and also, to the town of zhuozhou in the north, which is normally flood—free. here is his special report. chinas recent floods hit hard in parts of the country not accustomed to them. and its meteorological administra...