Goat plague affects domestic and wild small ruminants.
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As the goat plague is a trans-boundary disease, there’s concern that it will spill over into neighbouring countries such as Rwanda and Burundi.
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Every new batch of bees needs the equivalent of eight hectares of lavender fields to prosper.
Pro-Trump supporters in Manhattan. The new US president appeals to many Americans marginalised by globalisation.
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The world needs an alternative system, measuring economic value in face of the dissatisfaction that brought Donald Trump to the White House.
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It’s time for governments to think long-term about the kind of places they want to create.
Windturbines and windfarms are one example of what green bonds can finance.
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How to measure the real impact of green bonds? As France is issuing its first green bonds, the market in the global south could expand fast this year.
It may be meat-free but you can still think more sustainably.
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Understanding the best food option is getting complicated. Enter the new flexitarians.
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Cars, clothes, diamonds and jets: it’s time we addressed just how much the wealthy are hurting the planet.
China’s President Xi Jinping at the podium at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Leaders are worried US leadership on global issues like climate change will be diminished under President Trump. Experts explain why China is ready to lead, and how that could be a good thing.
Villagers watch the sunset over a small lagoon near the village of Tangintebu in the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati.
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In the Pacific region, customary laws could create problems when implementing international law associated with climate change.
Mexico has a lot of natural beauty to save – or squander.
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The government has decided to protect vast new expanses of land and sea. But bad planning and lax regulations are likely to limit, or even undermine, this conservation effort.
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Modesty in your spending (and half an eye on the future) could make you very cheerful indeed.
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When human contact is cut off, the brain begins to act in strange ways to preserve its sanity.
Ecological sustainability is at the core of Australia’s Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s proposed changes to Australia’s national environment act will significantly reduce judicial oversight on environmental decisions. Here’s why that matters.
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Wind and solar power can be intermittent. Should our usage be too?
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Hollywood turns its hand to the worst environmental disaster in US history – from which the environment is strangely missing.
Better than pills.
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The first experiment to demonstrate that an enriched environment can boost the function of some immune cells.
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As a remedy to rampant consumerism and the throwaway culture of fast-fashion, a few clothing brands actively encourage their customers to buy less.
A mandatory plastic bag charge has been a huge success across the UK.
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The 5p plastic bag charge is making society more eco-friendly than ever before.
Natural capital a dangerous illusion that masks the way capitalist growth undermines conservation itself.
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Natural capital is a hot topic that proponents have jumped onto, believing it is the future of sustainable development. But this concept is based on fundamental fallacies.
Thousands of people in Bali have joined a movement to reject land reclamation in Benoa Bay.
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Mass tourism in Bali is causing the island to face imminent groundwater crisis.