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Threatened bird habitats are in dire need of protection. Not only do these habitats provide food and shelter for the animals, they provide freshwater, oxygen (not only produced by trees but the ocean too), medicinal plants, and a balanced Earth for the human population.

Coconut oil production may be more damaging to the environment than palm oil, researchers say.

This year, the 197 Parties to the Paris Agreement are updating their domestic climate commitments, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), to reduce global emissions and climate change impacts...Recognition is growing across governments that nature-based solutions, which the Internat

Researchers at the University of Turku have discovered 40 new species so far this year, including 17 spiders, 23 insects, one millipede, and one lizard. In addition, the experts have described four genera that were previously unknown.

Island Conservation is releasing a request for proposals for a heavy-lift drone with advanced capabilities to improve technology and methodology for the removal of invasive rats from the Ulong Island group in Palau’s Rock Island Southern Lagoon...Ulong is a chain of 14 limestone islands and islet

In response to a directive from Congress, the Department of Energy released a report this week assessing the risks of a 50-year-old cracking and crumbling concrete nuclear waste repository in the Marshall Islands, but the findings did little to ease the concerns of Marshallese leaders in the Cent

IUCN invites you to submit a Proposal for the Preparation of GCF Full Proposal Documents for the Melanesia Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Resilience Programme...The successful consultants will have a team of people to conduct feasibility studies and climate studies to write

Environmentalists including Britain’s David Attenborough have called for a ban on deep-seabed mining that would extract resources including copper, cobalt, nickel, zinc, lithium, and rare earth elements from nodules on the ocean floor. The International Seabed Authority (ISA), a U.N.

Next year, all eyes will be on Kunming, China, as talks resume on a new set of global goals to protect biodiversity. These are much needed, because most of the existing 20 targets, which were set in 2010 in Aichi, Japan, have failed to make an impact on the rate of biodiversity loss.

In a study published recently in Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers focused on what can happen to ocean ecosystems when fishing pressure increases or decreases, and how this differs between tropical to temperate marine ecosystems.