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Apr 22, 2021

Blue Nature Alliance - Global Marine Initiative

The Blue Nature Alliance is a global partnership of five core partners and few other Non-Profit Organisations. The core partners are Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the Pew Charitable Trusts, Minderoo Foundation and Rob and Melani Walton Foundation.
The Blue Alliance was launched in April 2021.
The alliance aims to protect 5% of the world ocean in five years.
The alliance aims to target the following seven ocean locations: Antarctica, Seychelles, Canada, Palau, Western Indian Ocean, Fiji and Tristan da Cunha, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Apr 21, 2021

Hero MotoCorp to Conserve Ecological Aravali Biodiversity Park in Gurugram

Two-wheeler market leader Hero MotoCorp will work towards ecological restoration and conservation of the Aravali Biodiversity Park at Gurugram, in Haryana for the next 10 years.
The company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) to this effect.
Under the framework, the company will promote sustainable management of biodiversity, along with protecting the ecosystem of wildlife and the forest reserves.
The Aravali Biodiversity Park, spread over 380 acres contains ecologically restored and semi-arid land vegetation with around 300 native plant species comprising a rich variety of trees, shrubs, herbs, climbers and grasses. Over 183 species of birds can be spotted at the park.

Global CO2 Emissions Set for Second-biggest Spike in History

According to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report, global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are on course to surge by 1.5 billion tonnes in 2021, the second-largest increase in history, reversing most of last year's decline caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
This would be the biggest annual rise in emissions since 2010, during the carbon-intensive recovery from the global financial crisis.
The IEA's Global Energy Review 2021 estimates that CO2 emissions will increase by almost five per cent this year to 33 billion tonnes, based on the latest national data from around the world as well as real-time analysis of economic growth trends and new energy projects that are set to come online.

Apr 20, 2021

Forgotten' Coffee Plant Rediscovered in West Africa

A forgotten coffee plant that can grow in warmer conditions - and which scientists say could help future-proof the drink against climate change - has been rediscovered in West Africa.
Coffea stenophylla is a wild coffee species from West Africa which, until recently, was thought to be extinct outside Ivory Coast.
The plant was rediscovered growing wild in Sierra Leone, where it was historically grown as a coffee crop about a century ago.
A small sample of coffee beans from Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast were roasted and made into coffee, which was then tasted by a panel of coffee connoisseurs.
They also modelled climate data for the plant, which suggests it can potentially tolerate temperatures at least 6C higher than Arabica.
Seedlings will be planted this year in order to start assessing the wild coffee's potential in safeguarding the future of high-quality coffee.

Apr 19, 2021

Godzilla Shark Discovered in New Mexico Gets Formal Name

The 300-million-year-old shark's teeth were the first sign that it might be a distinct species.
The ancient chompers looked less like the spear-like rows of teeth of related species. They were squatter and shorter, less than an inch long, around 2 centimeters.
"Great for grasping and crushing prey rather than piercing prey," said discoverer John-Paul Hodnett, who was a graduate student when he unearthed the first fossils of the shark at a dig east of Albuquerque in 2013.
Hodnett named the 6.7-foot (2 meter) monster Dracopristis hoffmanorum, or Hoffman's Dragon Shark, in honour of the New Mexico family that owns the land in the Manzano Mountains where the fossils were found.

Apr 16, 2021

Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' Close to Tipping Point, Unmanned Sub Reveals

Thwaites Glacier, a gigantic ice shelf in West Antarctica, has been on climate scientists' radars for two decades now. But they didn't know just how fast the glacier was melting, and how close it was to complete collapse, until researchers sent an unmanned submarine below the ice shelf.
As one of Antarctica's fastest melting glaciers, Thwaites Glacier, nicknamed the "Doomsday Glacier," has lost an estimated 595 billion tons (540 billion metric tons) of ice since the 1980s, contributing to a 4% rise in global sea levels since that time. The glacier acts like a cork in a wine bottle, stopping the rest of the ice in the region from flowing into the sea, so Thwaites Glacier's collapse could potentially take the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet with it, causing a 10-foot (3 meter) rise in global sea levels.

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