From a treaty to protect the high seas to tonight's "Worm Moon" – Here's your March 7 news briefing
Two-thirds of the world's oceans are international waters (aka high seas), meaning all countries can fish, ship and research there.
Biodiversity
The COP15 – the UN’s biodiversity conference
Starting Wednesday, COP15 kicks off in Montreal, Canada.
How science is helping conservation efforts for endangered tigers
We're living in what's known as the sixth mass extinction.
Your science teacher lied to you about dinos; here’s how they actually died
At some point, probably in a primary school science class, you likely learned that the Earth used to be filled to the brim with dinosaurs of all kinds until about 66 million years ago when a meteor hit the Yucatán Peninsula (modern-day Mexico) and wiped them all out. Well, scientists
Aria’s Chef Angelo Vecchio exposes Hong Kong to Italian biodiversity
Italian restaurant Aria in Hong Kong has a new chef, Angelo Vecchio, who is on a quest to expose locals to Italy’s biodiversity. Chef Vecchio’s love of food began in his childhood province, Lecce, in southern Italy. Many Michelin-starred restaurants and countries later, including Pagliaccio in Rome and
The Dasgupta Review offers economically viable solutions for combating climate change
Some of these changes will be relatively painless for society, while others will undoubtedly strike even the most concerned citizens as radical.
In the recently published report, “The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review,” Indian-British economist and professor Sir Partha Dasgupta seeks to both diagnose and solve the climate change
The Dasgupta Review urges us to rethink the economics of climate change and nature
The Dasgupta Review posits that addressing climate change will require a fundamental reconsideration of the natural world, or, in the economic terms of the report, “natural capital.”
On February 2, Indian-British economist and professor Sir Partha Dasgupta published “The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review.” More than a standard examination