CBD News Headlines

• Climate Change Throws a Wrench in Everglades Restoration
  [released on: 21/06/2019]
  The drought and heat that drove a recent massive seagrass die-off could become more common in the future
• The chart that defines our warming world
  [released on: 21/06/2019]
  Is this the simplest way to show what is meant by global warming? The chart below organises all the countries of the world by region, time and temperature. The trend is unmistakeable.
• Central European countries block EU moves towards 2050 zero carbon goal
  [released on: 21/06/2019]
  Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic refuse to sign up to text that activists already viewed as too vague
• Deadlier than guns: Explosive bait haunts Sri Lanka's elephants
  [released on: 20/06/2019]
  KURUNEGALA, Sri Lanka - Residents of the farming village of Irudeniyagama in Sri Lanka's North Western province were taken by surprise last week when they saw a wild elephant calf trying to enter a house.
• Why Costa Rica Is A Really Great Place To Be A Wild Animal
  [released on: 21/06/2019]
  The small Central American nation is showing the world how nature conservation is done.
• Want to cut down on food waste? There's an app for that.
  [released on: 21/06/2019]
  Across Europe, apps can help the environmentally aware cut down food waste and carbon emissions that come with it.
• Tide turns for an Italian coastal wasteland
  [released on: 21/06/2019]
  Torre Guaceto, an eight-kilometre long stretch of coastline north-west of Brindisi, used to be known as a centre for poor fishing practices, black market smuggling and a drop-off point for illegal immigration.
• DNA proves Greenland man spotted first known beluga-narwhal
  [released on: 21/06/2019]
  Analysis of a strange skull in storage for the last 30 years has shown it belonged to the offspring of a narwhal mother and a beluga whale father.
• Canada becomes first G7 country to ban shark fin imports
  [released on: 21/06/2019]
  It was on a family visit to Hong Kong that Kristyn Wong-Tam noticed her uncle - a well-regarded chef - was the only person at the table not touching a bowl of shark fin soup.
• Climate change a threat to tourism in Spain
  [released on: 21/06/2019]
  Climate change is hitting Spain harder than most other European nations. Drinking water is scarce and beaches are receding. There's a danger that tourism in the country will suffer a major setback in the decades to come.
• Meet the scientists embracing traditional Indigenous knowledge
  [released on: 21/06/2019]
  From grizzly bears in areas undocumented by Western science to a possible new fast-running subtype of caribou, traditional knowledge is enriching scientific information about our natural world