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A fifth of global farmland contaminated by toxic metals, says study

Envirotec Magazine

The study identified a high-risk zone stretching across southern Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. The study, which used data from nearly 800,000 soil samples from around the world, identified a previously unrecognised high-risk zone stretching across southern Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. With up to 1.4

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‘Some insects are declining but what’s happening to the other 99%?’

Envirotec Magazine

Monitoring is largely confined to butterflies, bumblebees and dragonflies in parts of Europe and North America, with little known about insects in parts of Asia and South America and virtually no data on species in Africa.

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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?

GreenBiz

New golf course developments in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are incorporating sustainability into the design and implementation phases of their projects. Particularly, Laguna L?ng These things are absolutely vital to the health and wellbeing of future generations, so we all need to do our best to make things better.".

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Protecting just 0.7% of world’s land could help save a third of most unique and endangered species

Envirotec Magazine

The study, led by researchers at Imperial College London and published in early September in Nature Communications , finds that large gains in conservation are possible by focusing on areas home to exceptional biodiversity and species with high levels of evolutionary distinctiveness and global endangerment.

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'Moral responsibility': Nature charities back calls for $60bn international biodiversity finance target

Business Green

A six-fold increase in funding flows from richer nations to poorer nations to support nature protection is needed to help slow the rate of biodiversity loss, charities have warned.

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The Brief: Solar financing for frontline health clinics, biodiversity urgency, India’s digital health boom, greening freight, racial justice algorithms (video)

Impact Alpha

24: Solar financing for frontline health clinics in Africa and Asia. The post The Brief: Solar financing for frontline health clinics, biodiversity urgency, India’s digital health boom, greening freight, racial justice algorithms (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact! The World Bank’s Raihan.

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More than 75% of global insect species not adequately protected

Grist

The problem, according to the researchers of the study, is that when they measured the geographic distribution of insect populations using global biodiversity data and maps of protected areas, they found that 76 percent of insect species were inadequately covered, and more than 1,800 species not covered at all.