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					<title>Biden&#8217;s new sanctions on Russia should include timber exports (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/bidens-new-sanctions-on-russia-should-include-timber-exports-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/bidens-new-sanctions-on-russia-should-include-timber-exports-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Feb 2024 16:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Etelle HigonnetTara Ganesh]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Belarus, Europe, European Union, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[boreal forests, Business, Commentary, Conflict, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Governance, Temperate Forests, Timber, timber trade, and Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[Russia&#8217;s dictator Vladimir Putin has seemingly just had jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny assassinated. Navalny incarnated the best chance for democracy and human rights in Russia. He was a beacon of hope; a bright light in the darkness of corruption and violence that characterizes Putin&#8217;s Russia. His death is a tragedy that demands robust responses [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Russia&#8217;s dictator Vladimir Putin has seemingly just had jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny assassinated. Navalny incarnated the best chance for democracy and human rights in Russia. He was a beacon of hope; a bright light in the darkness of corruption and violence that characterizes Putin&#8217;s Russia. His death is a tragedy that demands robust responses from world leaders – especially from the E.U. and from U.S. President Joe Biden, who had long warned that Putin would face devastating consequences if Navalny were to die in prison. The new U.S. sanctions announced Friday, targeting hundreds of entities and individuals, are a sign that his administration will live up to its word – but they could go further in key areas. We propose a response that would simultaneously teach Putin a clear and painful lesson, and help save the planet from climate change. The U.S. should immediately bar Russian timber, pulp &amp; paper imports, as the E.U. and U.K. have already done. Amur tigers are among the creatures found in Russia&#8217;s taiga forest habitat. Image courtesy of WCS Russia &amp; Sikhote-Alin Reserve. Why is this crucial? Because timber represents more than half of all remaining U.S. imports of Russian goods, in terms of number of shipments. All of Russia’s forests are state-owned, with dues from logging flowing to it. Some forests are even under control of Russia’s military, which is also allowed to log and sell timber in its forests. Since the war began, U.S. Customs data show the nation has imported close to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/bidens-new-sanctions-on-russia-should-include-timber-exports-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-279202</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Nature-based recovery needed for Ukraine’s damaged protected areas (analysis)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/nature-based-recovery-needed-for-ukraines-damaged-protected-areas-analysis/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/nature-based-recovery-needed-for-ukraines-damaged-protected-areas-analysis/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Dec 2023 01:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hannah L. Timmins]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Russia, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Analysis, Conflict, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Landscape Restoration, Restoration, Rewilding, and War]]>
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							<![CDATA[As winter closes in, Ukraine is facing demoralizing news. Western support for the war is faltering, Ukrainian troops in the east are being pushed onto the back foot amid a Russian troop surge, and Kyiv is once again under attack from Russian drone strikes targeting energy infrastructure, the biggest such attacks since the invasion began. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As winter closes in, Ukraine is facing demoralizing news. Western support for the war is faltering, Ukrainian troops in the east are being pushed onto the back foot amid a Russian troop surge, and Kyiv is once again under attack from Russian drone strikes targeting energy infrastructure, the biggest such attacks since the invasion began. US officials have estimated Ukraine&#8217;s human death toll at over 120,000, and the figure will continue to grow. But I, as a conservationist, am expecting additional losses that have gone largely unreported. A group of Ukrainian ecologists and myself have been monitoring the impacts to Ukraine’s nature caused by the invasion, we know that another winter of conflict will wreak yet more death and destruction on Ukraine’s precious ecosystems, among the most biodiverse on the European continent. In the course of our research — which has tracked the numerous assaults conducted in protected areas, through which the frontline has run — we have made many troubling discoveries. Aftermath of a forest fire caused by fighting in Sviati Hory National Nature Park. Image courtesy of Kateryna Polyanska/Environment People Law. Areas rich in biodiversity often disproportionately overlap with sites of armed conflict. The invasion of Ukraine has been no exception. Russian troops have utilized protected areas both in an attempt to access strategic Ukrainian settlements, but also as locations in which to conduct active warfare. We have compiled first and second-hand research and reports on the impacts for Ukraine’s forests, wetlands, aquatic ecosystems, seas, islands and Europe’s&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/nature-based-recovery-needed-for-ukraines-damaged-protected-areas-analysis/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-276963</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Long-term wildlife impacts at Chornobyl, Fukushima may yield ‘a new ecology’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/long-term-wildlife-impacts-at-chornobyl-fukushima-may-yield-a-new-ecology/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Dec 2023 15:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Annelise Giseburt]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Japan, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Disasters, Diseases, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Health, Mammals, Nuclear Power, Planetary Health, Pollution, Research, Restoration, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world’s two worst nuclear accidents, in Ukraine and Japan, along with the human exclusion zones around them, are informing scientists about radiation effects, and how ecosystems evolve with less pressure from people.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Note to readers: “Chornobyl” is the Ukrainian spelling of “Chernobyl,” which is the Russian version, a spelling change requested by the Ukrainian government following its independence from the USSR. Mongabay has chosen to use the Ukrainian spelling throughout this story. Wolves lope through the Chornobyl nuclear power plant exclusion zone in the 2019 documentary Our Planet, as naturalist and TV presenter David Attenborough reminds viewers: “Hunters like these would only return if their prey and the surrounding forest is also thriving. “No unprotected human being can stay here for long without lethal risk,” he then explained, “But in driving us out, the radiation has created space for wildlife to return.” Attenborough is not the first to claim that nature can thrive in nuclear exclusion zones; indeed, the Our Planet script drew from scientific literature. However, there’s no consensus among the scientific community on this question, with researchers continuing to investigate and debate the ongoing effects of radioactive contamination on the environment in Chornobyl, Ukraine, and in Fukushima, Japan — the sites of the world’s two worst nuclear power plant accidents to date. Although individual-level radiation impacts on numerous animal and plant species have been widely observed and acknowledged, some researchers have found evidence of population-level, or even ecosystem-level impacts, while others haven’t. Study design, including target species, sample size, and method of estimating radiation dose, potentially colors these findings. Others argue that the body of research on nuclear exclusion zone organisms and ecosystems point in sum to neither a restoration,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/long-term-wildlife-impacts-at-chornobyl-fukushima-may-yield-a-new-ecology/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-276907</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ukrainian biologists fight to protect conservation legacy</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/amid-war-ukrainian-biologists-fight-to-protect-conservation-legacy/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/amid-war-ukrainian-biologists-fight-to-protect-conservation-legacy/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Feb 2023 18:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Marlowe Starling]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Russia, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Conflict, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Loss, Research, Rodents, Solutions, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Before Ukrainian biologist Mikhail Rusin can grab his shovel and venture afield, he first needs to ask locals if there are land mines nearby in one of the few areas he can access. Others are still occupied by Russian troops, where the endangered sandy blind mole-rats he studies live. But that’s only one of the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Before Ukrainian biologist Mikhail Rusin can grab his shovel and venture afield, he first needs to ask locals if there are land mines nearby in one of the few areas he can access. Others are still occupied by Russian troops, where the endangered sandy blind mole-rats he studies live. But that’s only one of the stresses of carrying out wildlife research in a war zone. In November 2022, Rusin, a mammologist with Kyiv Zoo who has studied at-risk species like the mole-rat (Spalax arenarius) and other rodents for more than 20 years, resumed his field research in newly reclaimed Ukrainian territory. Soon afterward, he encountered a chilling display of contempt: a tree with at least five hanged hamsters, one of which was a gray dwarf hamster (Cricetulus migratorius) – a species assessed as vulnerable by the country’s list of threatened species. It&#8217;s hard to say whether it was the work of retreating Russian soldiers or Ukrainian farmers fed up with rodents consuming their crops. Both Russians and Ukrainians, Rusin says, “are always in constant stress” on the frontlines. “They could do something that in normal life they would never do.” Mikhail Rusin crouches by a sandy blind mole-rat mound near Kardashynka, Ukraine, prior to Russia&#8217;s invasion. An endangered species endemic to southern Ukraine, the rodent lives almost entirely underground, making it vulnerable to Russian-built military trenches. Photo courtesy of V. Busel. The mole-rats are having a hard time coping, too. The rodents, which are roughly the size of guinea pigs, have extremely limited&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/amid-war-ukrainian-biologists-fight-to-protect-conservation-legacy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-265823</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ukrainian ecologists say nature will suffer no matter war&#8217;s result (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/ukrainian-ecologists-say-nature-will-suffer-no-matter-wars-result-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/ukrainian-ecologists-say-nature-will-suffer-no-matter-wars-result-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Jan 2023 19:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Oleksii VasyliukYuliia Spinova]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Commentary, Conflict, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Human-wildlife Conflict, Landscape Restoration, Restoration, War, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[At the start of last month’s UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, UN Environmental Programme Executive Director, Inger Andersen, made the memorable statement, “we are at war with nature” and must “make peace.” As Ukrainian ecologists now in Kyiv doing our work despite unsteady electricity — a full hour of uninterrupted internet is a luxury [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[At the start of last month’s UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, UN Environmental Programme Executive Director, Inger Andersen, made the memorable statement, “we are at war with nature” and must “make peace.” As Ukrainian ecologists now in Kyiv doing our work despite unsteady electricity — a full hour of uninterrupted internet is a luxury — and air raid sirens and explosions, we are constantly reminded of the extent to which war itself is at war with nature. For on top of the tragic loss of human life and the destruction of towns and cities, our country’s biodiversity is taking a beating. We would like to convey to the international community the impact the war in Ukraine is having on our flora and fauna, and suggest pathways forward. First, it’s important to understand that the war’s assault on nature did not begin in February 2022. Rather, we have been monitoring the direct and indirect impacts of military actions on Ukraine’s natural ecosystems since the 2014 hostilities. Prior to 2022, combat occurred only in Eastern Ukraine, but there even protected areas, notably distinctive Ukrainian steppe ecosystems, were affected. The current full-scale invasion has significantly expanded the war zone into sites like the Polissia, an important Ramsar site; the coast along the Black and Azov Seas; and much of the steppe, which represents about half of Ukraine’s landscape. An unexploded shell inside Kreidova Flora Nature Reserve, April 2017. Image courtesy of Dr. Yuliia Spinova. Due to the war, affected ecosystems suffer soil&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/ukrainian-ecologists-say-nature-will-suffer-no-matter-wars-result-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-265101</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Black Sea dolphin deaths prompt ecocide allegations against Russia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/black-sea-dolphin-deaths-prompt-ecocide-allegations-against-russia/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/black-sea-dolphin-deaths-prompt-ecocide-allegations-against-russia/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Dec 2022 14:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Fitt]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Crime, Dolphins, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Governance, Mammals, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Mammals, Oceans, War, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[READER ADVISORY: This story contains images of dead cetaceans that some viewers may find disturbing. On May 9, Bogdan Bulete, regional head ranger at the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve in Romania, received what he thought was yet another routine call to check out a possible dolphin stranding near the town of Sulina. But when he [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[READER ADVISORY: This story contains images of dead cetaceans that some viewers may find disturbing. On May 9, Bogdan Bulete, regional head ranger at the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve in Romania, received what he thought was yet another routine call to check out a possible dolphin stranding near the town of Sulina. But when he reached the beach this time, the sight that met his eyes was “overwhelming,” he told Mongabay. Up to 30 dolphins lay dead on the sand. “Some of them looked burned, and all of them had marks of nets around their tail or their belly,” he said. Following an unprecedented number of reports of dead dolphins and porpoises on Black Sea beaches since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Dec. 7 accused Russia of ecocide during COP15, the U.N. biodiversity summit in Montreal. His statement followed an announcement in July by the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office that it would mount an inquiry into suing Russia for ecocide over the cetacean deaths. Mounting evidence is slowly painting a clearer picture of the mass mortality of Black Sea cetaceans. But estimates of the death toll vary and scientists diverge on whether research has progressed far enough to scientifically conclude the war’s effect. The situation highlights the difficulty, and the necessity, of conducting wartime science. A dead cetacean in Tuzlovsky Limany National Park in Ukraine, June 2. Image courtesy of Ivan Rusev. A few days before Zelenskyy’s accusation, researchers presented the first scientific analysis of changes in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/black-sea-dolphin-deaths-prompt-ecocide-allegations-against-russia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-263760</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Amid war, Ukrainians are tracking Russia’s crimes against the environment</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/amid-war-ukrainians-are-tracking-russias-crimes-against-the-environment/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/amid-war-ukrainians-are-tracking-russias-crimes-against-the-environment/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 May 2022 08:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rachel Teng Ruiqi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Conservation, Crime, Ecosystems, Environment, Fellows, and War]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. The assault, by what’s widely considered the second-most powerful military in the world, was on six fronts across air, land and sea, spanning 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) across the Ukrainian border. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. The assault, by what’s widely considered the second-most powerful military in the world, was on six fronts across air, land and sea, spanning 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) across the Ukrainian border. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says that nearly 2,900 civilians have been killed as of April. 29, but the actual number is likely far higher. More than 5.3 million people have fled the country. These injustices alone are staggering, yet, the crimes committed against the environment have largely gone unaddressed. While environmental damage may seem trivial in the face of death and displacement, a healthy environment will be crucial in safeguarding Ukraine’s socioeconomic recovery after the war. According to the Geneva Convention, “it is prohibited to use methods or means of warfare that are intended to cause or are expected to cause widespread, long-term, and serious damage to the environment.” Car parked on road side in Kyiv, Ukraine. Image by Mikhail Volkov via Pexels. Yet, the environmental impacts of the Russia-Ukraine conflict to date are severe, far-reaching, and likely to affect generations of Ukrainians to come, according to Olena Maslyukivska, an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Maslyukivska, who is a refugee herself, says environmental activists have had to record these damages in secret, and that the ongoing war has presented hurdles in collecting and analyzing this data. “We have been advised&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/amid-war-ukrainians-are-tracking-russias-crimes-against-the-environment/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Contorted energy politics of the Ukraine crisis (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/contorted-energy-politics-of-the-ukraine-crisis-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Apr 2022 21:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Nikolas Kozloff]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Clean Energy, Commentary, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Green, Oil, Politics, Renewable Energy, Resource Conflict, and War]]>
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							<![CDATA[However horrific, the Ukraine crisis has the potential to finally nudge the world towards a long overdue clean energy future.  As one of the world’s top three suppliers of fossil fuels, Russia has contributed to the climate emergency, and the Kremlin has taken advantage of dirty profits to fund its war on Kyiv.  To its [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[However horrific, the Ukraine crisis has the potential to finally nudge the world towards a long overdue clean energy future.  As one of the world’s top three suppliers of fossil fuels, Russia has contributed to the climate emergency, and the Kremlin has taken advantage of dirty profits to fund its war on Kyiv.  To its credit, the Biden administration has banned Russian energy imports, and analysts believe the Ukraine crisis has the potential to “fast-track” renewable energy, while leading to a “tectonic shift” addressing climate change.  Unfortunately, however, the Biden administration seems to have calculated that pursuing short-term political gains must take priority. Moves to cut off Russian oil and gas have led to an increase in prices, and this has prompted the White House to tap reserves.  Moreover, to the dismay of environmentalists, the Biden administration has called for oil and gas production to be ramped up.  Somewhat jarringly, the same president who previously campaigned on reining in global warming has now decided to sacrifice climate goals in the name of keeping gas prices low, a reflection no doubt of impending congressional elections.  As the Biden administration retreats from a robust discussion of climate change &#8212; emphasizing instead the notion of “energy security” &#8212; and approves new oil and gas permits on federal land, fossil fuel executives have seized  the moment by pushing through new infrastructure projects. Cars in Bucha, Ukraine, after shelling on March 30, 2022, during the Russian invasion. Image by Oleksandr Ratushniak via Wikimedia Commons (CC&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/contorted-energy-politics-of-the-ukraine-crisis-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-255213</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Photography, nature, truth and war: Q&#038;A with top photographer Ami Vitale</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/photography-nature-truth-and-war-qa-with-top-photographer-ami-vitale/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/photography-nature-truth-and-war-qa-with-top-photographer-ami-vitale/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>06 Apr 2022 14:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Global, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Arts, Conservation, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Award-winning National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale recently made a short film called Shaba about a young elephant rescued by the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, which is owned and operated by an Indigenous Samburu community in Kenya. It&#8217;s a fine example of how she weaves method and mission together, and that latter word is very apt: Vitale is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Award-winning National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale recently made a short film called Shaba about a young elephant rescued by the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, which is owned and operated by an Indigenous Samburu community in Kenya. It&#8217;s a fine example of how she weaves method and mission together, and that latter word is very apt: Vitale is always on a mission to uplift people and wildlife, and recently invited Geographic colleagues to donate some of their iconic work for sale to provide humanitarian aid to people affected by conflicts like in Ukraine: 100% of the profits from this initiative will be donated to Direct Relief, an organization providing aid to people affected by these conflicts. Mongabay caught up with Vitale to hear her thoughts about photography at this pivotal time: her responses have been edited lightly for clarity. Mongabay: The most powerful photography of 2022 is coming out of Ukraine: you&#8217;ve spent plenty of time in conflict zones documenting similar events, how does this war inform how you think about the state of the world? Ami Vitale: Every single war and the senseless violence that comes with them are unconscionable. We are all intricately connected to one another whether we understand it or not. This war is about all of us, our lives, homes and our future. It’s about how deeply connected we are to each other. I believe now is the time to channel our grief into action and find the courage to make a difference. We can all be catalysts&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/photography-nature-truth-and-war-qa-with-top-photographer-ami-vitale/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Around the world, a fire crisis flares up, fueled by human actions</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/around-the-world-a-fire-crisis-flares-up-fueled-by-human-actions/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/around-the-world-a-fire-crisis-flares-up-fueled-by-human-actions/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>04 Sep 2020 12:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Canada, Global, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Business, Climate Change, data, Deforestation, Economics, Endangered Species, Environment, Fires, Forest Carbon, Forest Destruction, Forests, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Public Health, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Supply Chain, Tourism, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[There have been more fires alerts around the world this year than last year, spelling dire consequences for health, biodiversity, and the economy — and human actions are mostly to blame. “The world witnessed the devastating consequences of the fires last year, from billions of wildlife lost and people losing their homes and livelihoods, not [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[There have been more fires alerts around the world this year than last year, spelling dire consequences for health, biodiversity, and the economy — and human actions are mostly to blame. “The world witnessed the devastating consequences of the fires last year, from billions of wildlife lost and people losing their homes and livelihoods, not to mention the impact on climate,” said Fran Price, global leader for forests at WWF. “And yet, here we are again.” Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burning throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International. Fire alerts in April were 13% higher this year compared to the same period last year, according to a newly released report by WWF and Boston Consulting Group. In 2019, the world looked on in horror as one-fifth of Australia’s entire temperate broadleaf and mixed forest biome burned, an area nearly the size of England. Last year, Russia had the second-highest level of forest fires recorded, and 2020 is projected to be worse. A lone wallaby foraging for food in a burned forest outside Mallacoota, Australia. Photo by Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals. This April, nearly 20% of the forested area of northern Thailand burned, causing dangerous levels of air pollution in Chiang Mai. Around the same time, Ukraine saw the start of the worst wildfires in the history of the Chernobyl region, with fires increasing 30% across the country this year. The report’s analyses are based on NASA Fire Information (VIIRS) and Global Forest Watch&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/around-the-world-a-fire-crisis-flares-up-fueled-by-human-actions/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Ikea using illegally sourced wood from Ukraine, campaigners say</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/ikea-using-illegally-sourced-wood-from-ukraine-campaigners-say/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/ikea-using-illegally-sourced-wood-from-ukraine-campaigners-say/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>29 Jun 2020 13:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ashoka Mukpo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Ashoka]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Certification, Greenwashing, Illegal Logging, and timber trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[The global furniture giant Ikea used illegal timber from Ukraine in its supply chain and one of the world’s preeminent forestry certification organizations failed to stop it from happening, a new report says. The report, published last week by the U.K.-based environmental watchdog Earthsight, accuses Ikea of sourcing manufactured products — including its flagship Terje [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The global furniture giant Ikea used illegal timber from Ukraine in its supply chain and one of the world’s preeminent forestry certification organizations failed to stop it from happening, a new report says. The report, published last week by the U.K.-based environmental watchdog Earthsight, accuses Ikea of sourcing manufactured products — including its flagship Terje folding chair — from suppliers that have used logs that were felled illegally in Ukraine. “In this case, VGSM, the company that was supplying these chairs and chair parts to Ikea is cutting some of the trees itself, but it’s doing so under illegally issued licenses issued by the State Forestry Enterprise that controls the forest,” said Sam Lawson, director of Earthsight. Like in other former Soviet bloc countries, forest regions marked for logging in Ukraine are managed by state-run enterprises. Most of these “state forestry enterprises” are controlled by Ukraine’s State Agency of Forestry Resources, including one in Velkyy Bychkiv, a remote region in western Ukraine near the Romanian border. It’s in this region where campaigners say that state authorities allowed a company called VGSM, one of Ikea’s suppliers, to cut down beech trees during a “silence period” between April and mid-June, when Ukrainian law mandates a halt on certain forms of logging during the critical breeding period for lynx and other species. According to the report, those logs were also felled under a “sanitary felling” permit, a widely abused loophole in Ukranian forestry that allows large numbers of trees to be cut down&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/ikea-using-illegally-sourced-wood-from-ukraine-campaigners-say/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Why is Europe rewilding with water buffalo?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/why-is-europe-rewilding-with-water-buffalo/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Oct 2019 07:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Saving Life on Earth: Words on the Wild]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eastern Europe, Europe, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animal Behavior, Animals, Conservation, Culture, Ecosystem Engineers, Ecosystems, Environment, Farming, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Livestock, Mammals, Restoration, Rewilding, and Rivers]]>
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							<![CDATA[This post is part of Saving Life on Earth: Words on the Wild, a monthly column by Jeremy Hance, one of Mongabay’s original staff writers. &#160; At the end of a long day, Michel Jacobi, 36, rides a water buffalo home. The choice of commute is unique even in rural, Trans-Carpathian Ukraine — though it [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This post is part of Saving Life on Earth: Words on the Wild, a monthly column by Jeremy Hance, one of Mongabay’s original staff writers. &nbsp; At the end of a long day, Michel Jacobi, 36, rides a water buffalo home. The choice of commute is unique even in rural, Trans-Carpathian Ukraine — though it wasn’t always. Jacobi, a native of Kiel, Germany, with a degree in ecology and forestry, has spent nearly a decade in Ukraine, raising a sizable herd of domesticated water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), starting an NGO, and living off the sale of their rich and hypoallergenic yogurt and cheese. But these animals aren’t livestock to Jacobi; the relationship is intimate. “They produce an atmosphere of coziness and deep-rooted trust,” he says. “All this is only possible, when you admit them to be part of your life and let them be real domestic water buffalo.” This summer, Jacobi said goodbye to 17 of his animals. He wasn’t selling them for slaughter, but giving them to an ambitious rewilding project to employ these animals as ecosystem engineers on the Danube River in Ukraine. Lost ancients In mid-May of this year, officials released seven of Jacobi’s water buffalo onto the 3,500-hectare (8,650-acre) Ermakov Island on the Danube. Ten more followed soon after. One was pregnant and has since given birth to a healthy calf, raising the number of this little population to 18 in total. A newly released water buffalo stands on Ermakov Island in the Ukraine. Photo by:&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/why-is-europe-rewilding-with-water-buffalo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Forestry reforms could fall short without PM’s backing in Ukraine</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/reforms-to-root-out-illegal-logging-in-ukraine-need-pms-backing/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/reforms-to-root-out-illegal-logging-in-ukraine-need-pms-backing/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>28 Nov 2018 11:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eastern Europe, Europe, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[boreal forests, Conservation, Corruption, Deforestation, Economics, Environment, Environmental Law, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Illegal Logging, Law, Logging, NGOs, Pulp And Paper, Sustainability, Sustainable Forest Management, Temperate Forests, Timber, Timber Laws, timber trade, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ukraine appears to have stalled in a “massive crackdown” on corruption and illegality in its timber sector, according to the group that exposed the practices. Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman launched the measures in July, following revelations from a report published by the U.K.-based investigative NGO Earthsight. “The facts are terrible,” Groysman said in a government [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ukraine appears to have stalled in a “massive crackdown” on corruption and illegality in its timber sector, according to the group that exposed the practices. Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman launched the measures in July, following revelations from a report published by the U.K.-based investigative NGO Earthsight. “The facts are terrible,” Groysman said in a government statement from July 18. “I will continue to unmask all the shadow schemes that are in effect. And I will struggle to prevent such schemes. The fight will be fruitful.” Site of a recent clearing near Zakarpattia, Ukraine. Image © Earthsight. But in the months since, progress has petered out, as a package of “meaningful reforms” still lacks the prime minister’s signature, according to Sam Lawson, Earthsight’s executive director. “If he signs off on this reform process, then there’s some hope,” Lawson told Mongabay. Until now, though, much of the response has involved stepped-up enforcement to ensure that timber leaving the country has the right documentation, he said. “[The corruption] is more deep-rooted than that.” Earthsight&#8217;s investigation shed light on corruption in Ukraine&#8217;s forestry sector. Video © EarthsightLawson and his team at Earthsight spent two years digging into long-standing allegations of illegal logging in Ukraine. At the center of the issue is the State Forestry Resource Agency, or SAFR. With 60,000 employees, it wields tremendous power in Ukraine, according to the report. SAFR, through a web of state forestry enterprises, generates 83 percent of Ukraine’s timber — an industry that accounts for around 2 percent&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/reforms-to-root-out-illegal-logging-in-ukraine-need-pms-backing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>EU demand siphons illicit timber from Ukraine, investigation finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/eu-demand-siphons-illicit-timber-from-ukraine-investigation-finds/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/eu-demand-siphons-illicit-timber-from-ukraine-investigation-finds/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>17 Jul 2018 04:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eastern Europe, Europe, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, boreal forests, Certification, Conservation, Corruption, Deforestation, Economics, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Illegal Logging, Logging, Mammals, Pulp And Paper, Sustainability, Sustainable Forest Management, Temperate Forests, Timber, Timber Laws, timber trade, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lax due diligence by European companies is driving the illegal harvest of timber in Ukraine, one of the largest suppliers to the continent, according to a report published July 14. “It’s a huge source of high-risk timber coming into the EU,” said Sam Lawson, who directs the London-based investigative non-profit Earthsight. Ukraine holds some of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lax due diligence by European companies is driving the illegal harvest of timber in Ukraine, one of the largest suppliers to the continent, according to a report published July 14. “It’s a huge source of high-risk timber coming into the EU,” said Sam Lawson, who directs the London-based investigative non-profit Earthsight. Ukraine holds some of Europe’s largest tracts of unspoiled forests. But those forests, home to brown bears (Ursus arctos arctos), wolves (Canis lupus lupus), and bison (Bison bonasus), also supply more “high-risk timber” to the EU than all countries in the tropics combined, Lawson said. Earthsight carried out a two-year probe into the country’s timber sector, digging through court documents and customs records, interviewing industry staff and government officials, and conducting on-the-ground and under cover investigations. Video © Earthsight. The effort uncovered evidence of corruption on the part of government-run “state forestry enterprises” and department heads in Ukraine. They also traced the tendrils of that corruption to large sawmills, suppliers and retailers in the EU — companies that Earthsight says are falling short of their responsibility to verify that the wood they buy comes from trees cut down in accordance with the law. That means that a significant proportion of the wood found in products around the continent come from illegally harvested sources, Lawson told Mongabay. “It gets used in absolutely everything,” he said. “You can barely look around you without seeing something that could have Ukrainian wood in it.” The timber industry is a huge source of income for the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/eu-demand-siphons-illicit-timber-from-ukraine-investigation-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Record number of nations hit all time temperature highs</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/record-number-of-nations-hit-all-time-temperature-highs/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Nov 2010 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Ascension Island, Asia, Belarus, Bolivia, Chad, Colombia, Cyprus, Finland, Iraq, Kuwait, Latin America, Myanmar, Niger, Pacific Islands, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, South America, Sudan, Ukraine, and Zambia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Science, Environment, Green, Islands, and Temperatures]]>
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							<![CDATA[To date, nineteen nations have hit or matched record high temperatures this year, according to Jeff Master&#8217;s Wunder Blog, making 2010 the only year to have so many national records. In contrast, no nation this year has hit a record cold temperature. Over the past decade, which was the warmest on record, 75 nations have [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[To date, nineteen nations have hit or matched record high temperatures this year, according to Jeff Master&#8217;s Wunder Blog, making 2010 the only year to have so many national records. In contrast, no nation this year has hit a record cold temperature. Over the past decade, which was the warmest on record, 75 nations have seen record highs, whereas 15 have seen record lows. Nations hitting record highs this year are the Ascension Islands, the Solomon Islands, Finland, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Colombia, Zambia, Cyprus, Myanmar, Chad, Niger, Sudan, Qatar, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, and most recently Bolivia. If Palestine were nation, the year&#8217;s total would be twenty, since it hit an all-time high of 51.4°C (124.5°F). This year is looking to be among the warmest yet recorded since data keeping began in the lat 19th Century. While the first half of the year was unusually warm worldwide, an expected La Nina phenomenon has recently brought cooler-than-average temperatures to much of the Northern Hemisphere. Climate experts overwhelmingly conclude that the world is warming due to extensive greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation. Related articles Summer from hell: seventeen nations hit all-time heat records (08/09/2010) The summer isn&#8217;t over yet, but already seventeen nations have matched or beaten their all-time heat records. According to Jeff Masters&#8217; WunderBlog, Belarus, the Ukraine, Cyprus, Russia, Finland, Qatar, the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Niger, Chad, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, Colombia, Myanmar, Ascension Island, and the Solomon Islands have all equaled&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/record-number-of-nations-hit-all-time-temperature-highs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Nation&#8217;s wealth does not guarantee green practices</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/nations-wealth-does-not-guarantee-green-practices/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Aug 2010 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Alanna Tritt]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Carbon Emissions, Deforestation, Economics, Endangered Species, Energy, Environment, Extinction, Farming, Fertilizers, Fishing, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Habitat Loss, Overfishing, Politics, Pollution, Population, Poverty, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Technology, Water, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, the US, and China have biggest overall environmental impact. Developing countries are not the only ones that could benefit from a little environmental support. Wealthier countries may need to &#8216;know themselves&#8217; and address these issues at home too. According to a recent study in the open access journal PLoS ONE, wealth may be the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, the US, and China have biggest overall environmental impact. Developing countries are not the only ones that could benefit from a little environmental support. Wealthier countries may need to &#8216;know themselves&#8217; and address these issues at home too. According to a recent study in the open access journal PLoS ONE, wealth may be the most important factor determining a country’s environmental impact. The team had originally planned to study &#8220;country-level environmental performance and human health issues,&#8221; lead author Corey Bradshaw, Director of Ecological Modeling and professor at the University of Adelaide, told mongabay.com. Once they began looking at the available indexes, however, they saw the need for a purely environmental analysis. The analysis ranked countries based on natural forest loss, natural habitat conversion, marine captures, fertilizer use, water pollution, carbon emissions, and biodiversity threat. The resulting index compares countries based on their overall impact (absolute environmental impact) and their impact relative to available resources (proportional impact). This index focuses solely on environmental impact and does not attempt to incorporate external factors such as human health indicators, happiness, or economic strength into the calculations. Lone Brazil nut tree in deforested area in Brazil. According to a new environmental index, of the world&#8217;s nations Brazil has the greatest environment impact. Deforestation was one of the factors included in the index&#8217;s findings. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. The populous and environmentally influential countries are generally the most harmful environmentally, the analysis found. &#8220;Basically, the richer a country becomes the more damage it&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/nations-wealth-does-not-guarantee-green-practices/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Summer from hell: seventeen nations hit all-time heat records</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/summer-from-hell-seventeen-nations-hit-all-time-heat-records/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Aug 2010 19:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Ascension Island, Asia, Belarus, Chad, Colombia, Cyprus, Europe, Finland, Guinea, Iraq, Kuwait, Latin America, Middle East, Myanmar, Niger, Pacific Islands, Pacific Ocean, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, South America, Sudan, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Science, Disasters, Drought, Environment, Fires, Food, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, Peatlands, Temperatures, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asian continent sees warmest temperature ever recorded. The summer isn&#8217;t over yet, but already seventeen nations have matched or beaten their all-time heat records. According to Jeff Masters&#8217; WunderBlog, Belarus, the Ukraine, Cyprus, Russia, Finland, Qatar, the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Niger, Chad, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, Colombia, Myanmar, Ascension Island, and the Solomon Islands have all [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asian continent sees warmest temperature ever recorded. The summer isn&#8217;t over yet, but already seventeen nations have matched or beaten their all-time heat records. According to Jeff Masters&#8217; WunderBlog, Belarus, the Ukraine, Cyprus, Russia, Finland, Qatar, the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Niger, Chad, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, Colombia, Myanmar, Ascension Island, and the Solomon Islands have all equaled or broken their top temperature records this year. In addition, the hottest temperature ever recorded in Asia was taken in Pakistan at 128 degrees Fahrenheit (53 degrees Celsius); this incredible temperature still has to be reviewed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Russia is currently undergoing a heat crisis with drought, forest and peatland fires, and dangerous temperatures threatening Moscow and parts of Central Russia. Thousands of people are thought to have died due to heat-related issues and Russia has halted wheat exports after the crop was devastated, aggravating fears of a global food crisis. The head of Russia&#8217;s weather service, Alexander Frolov, has said that Russia hasn&#8217;t seen such a heat wave in 1,000 years. While 17 nations have hit their highest ever temperatures in the last seven months, only one has recorded its lowest: Guinea in January recorded an all-time low. Climate experts overwhelmingly say that the world is warming due to extensive greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. The last six months have been the hottest on record worldwide since data-taking began in the 1880s, while the past decade (from 2000-2009) was the warmest decade on record. Recently officials have stated&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/summer-from-hell-seventeen-nations-hit-all-time-heat-records/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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