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Kenya braces for return of devastating locust swarms.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Swarms of desert locusts have reappeared in East Africa to the dismay of farmers and villagers who witnessed them wreak havoc on their crops and pasture in previous years.

Climate Environment

Why is snow white?

It has everything to do with optics. Imagine waking up after a night of heavy snowfall — you look out the window and see a world of white. But if you turn on a faucet or open the freezer, you'll notice that liquid water and ice usually appear clear. So, why is snow white?

Climate Environment

'My neighbourhood is being destroyed to pacify his supporters': the race to complete Trump's wall.

In his final months in office, Donald Trump has ramped up construction on his promised physical border between the US and Mexico – devastating wildlife habitats and increasing the migrant death toll

Environment

One, two, tree: how AI helped find millions of trees in the Sahara.

Efforts to map the Earth’s trees are growing – and could change our understanding of the planet’s health.

Environment

Joëlle Gergis on mourning and making sense of what we have lost on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

Climate scientist and writer Joëlle Gergis speaks about the incalculable loss already suffered due to climate change and why the only way forward is to acknowledge the grief rather than ignore it.

Climate

Electric Cars Are Better for the Planet – and Often Your Budget, Too

Electric vehicles are better for the climate than gas-powered cars, but many Americans are still reluctant to buy them. One reason: The larger upfront cost.

Technology Solutions

A new archaeology for the Anthropocene era.

Indiana Jones and Lara Croft have a lot to answer for. Public perceptions of archaeology are often thoroughly outdated, and these characterisations do little to help. Archaeology as practiced today bears virtually no resemblance to the tomb raiding portrayed in movies and video games.

Environment

Cities can help migrating birds on their way by planting more trees and turning lights off at night.

Millions of birds travel between their breeding and wintering grounds during spring and autumn migration, creating one of the greatest spectacles of the natural world. These journeys often span incredible distances.

Environment

Why are ocean warming records so important?

If we want to understand global heating, we have to examine ocean temperature trends. As if 2020 could get any worse, the latest research showed that oceans hit their highest recorded temperatures, a record that keeps getting broken year after year.

Environment

And then there were two: can northern white rhinos be saved from extinction?

There are only two remaining rhinos of this species, a mother and daughter, but scientists see new hope in stem cell breakthroughs

Environment

Celebrity power undermining global conservation efforts, scientists warn.

Hostile dispute over trophy hunting fuelled by ‘myths driven by emotion and morality that ignore critical facts’.

Environment

Restoring oceans could create 100,000 jobs and give £50bn boost to economy in UK.

Restoring the UK’s seas could put billions of pounds into the economy by 2050 and bring thousands of new jobs, according to a new report by Sky Ocean Rescue and WWF.

Environment

Drax launches initiative to improve green skills for one million people.

Drax is the UK’s first energy company to make a pledge to boost social mobility for one million people by 2025. Drax has announced the target as part of its Opportunity Action Plan developed in partnership with the Social Mobility Pledge.

Energy

JOB VACANCIES: DEADLINE 31 JANUARY 2021 / Climate Change New Business Development & Partnerships Advisor, Save the Children Australia

Organization:Save the Children Australia Position:Climate Change New Business Development & Partnerships Advisor Duty Station:Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | (Flexible)

Climate

JOB VACANCIES: DEADLINE 29 JANUARY 2021 / Programme Management Officer, UN-REDD

Organization:UNEP/ UN Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) (UN-REDD) Position:Programme Management Officer Duty Station:Bangkok (Krung Thep), Thailand

Climate

JOB VACANCIES: DEADLINE 15 February 2021 / Sector Vice President, Environment, DAI

Organization:DAIPosition:Sector Vice President, Environment Duty Station:Bethesda, MD, US Deadline for Application:15 February 2021

Climate

JOB VACANCIES: DEADLINE 5 February 2021 / Project Coordinator, Regional Programme on Energy Security and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, KAS

Organization:Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Position:Project Coordinator - Regional Programme on Energy Security and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa Duty Station:Kenya

Climate

Kenya braces for return of devastating locust swarms.

Why is snow white?

'My neighbourhood is being destroyed to pacify his supporters': the race to complete Trump's wall.

One, two, tree: how AI helped find millions of trees in the Sahara.

Joëlle Gergis on mourning and making sense of what we have lost on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

Electric Cars Are Better for the Planet – and Often Your Budget, Too

A new archaeology for the Anthropocene era.

Cities can help migrating birds on their way by planting more trees and turning lights off at night.

Why are ocean warming records so important?

And then there were two: can northern white rhinos be saved from extinction?

Celebrity power undermining global conservation efforts, scientists warn.

Restoring oceans could create 100,000 jobs and give £50bn boost to economy in UK.

Drax launches initiative to improve green skills for one million people.

JOB VACANCIES: DEADLINE 31 JANUARY 2021 / Climate Change New Business Development & Partnerships Advisor, Save the Children Australia

JOB VACANCIES: DEADLINE 29 JANUARY 2021 / Programme Management Officer, UN-REDD

JOB VACANCIES: DEADLINE 15 February 2021 / Sector Vice President, Environment, DAI

JOB VACANCIES: DEADLINE 5 February 2021 / Project Coordinator, Regional Programme on Energy Security and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, KAS

Biden, in a Burst of Climate Orders, Rejoins the Paris Agreement.

UN Secretary-General warmly welcomes US steps to rejoin Paris Agreement on Climate Change .

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