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Alexander von Humboldt

A Different Kind of Climate Refugee

As deserts expand, sea levels rise and other climate impacts make some regions uninhabitable, tens of millions of people will be displaced from their homes.They won't be alone. Thanks to human-caused climate change, countless plants and animals will also need to move in order to survive. But as disruptive as…

bubmagFebruary 13, 2020

Seed Vault

A Different Kind of Climate Refugee

As deserts expand, sea levels rise and other climate impacts make some regions uninhabitable, tens of millions of people will be displaced from their homes.They won't be alone. Thanks to human-caused climate change, countless plants and animals will also need to move in order to survive. But as disruptive as…

bubmagFebruary 13, 2020

Orangutan

Scientists in Indonesia fear political interference

Estimates of how much Indonesian forest and peatland burned in 2019 are politically sensitive.PHOTO: ULET IFANSASTI/STRINGER/GETTY IMAGESAfter living and working in Indonesia for about 15 years, French landscape ecologist David Gaveau suddenly left the country on 28 January. Indonesian immigration authorities had ordered Gaveau, a research associate with the Center…

bubmagFebruary 13, 2020

Seed Vault

A Different Kind of Climate Refugee

As deserts expand, sea levels rise and other climate impacts make some regions uninhabitable, tens of millions of people will be displaced from their homes.They won't be alone. Thanks to human-caused climate change, countless plants and animals will also need to move in order to survive. But as disruptive as…

bubmagFebruary 13, 2020

Alexander von Humboldt

A Different Kind of Climate Refugee

As deserts expand, sea level rises, and other climate impacts make some regions uninhabitable, tens of millions of people will be displaced from their homes. They won't be alone. Thanks to human-caused climate change, countless plants and animals will also…

bubmagFebruary 13, 2020

Alexander von Humboldt

A Different Kind of Climate Refugee

As deserts expand, sea levels rise and other climate impacts make some regions uninhabitable, tens of millions of people will be displaced from their homes.They won't be alone. Thanks to human-caused climate change, countless plants and animals will also need to move in order to survive. But as disruptive as…

bubmagFebruary 13, 2020

Greenland

Sea ice loss led to skinnier polar bears and fewer cubs

Due to reduced sea ice, polar bears in Baffin Bay are getting thinner, having fewer babies, and spending more time on land than they did in the 1990s, new research shows. The new study in Ecological Applications includes satellite tracking and visual monitoring of polar bears in the 1990s compared with…

bubmagFebruary 13, 2020

The Queen

Marc Almond interview: ‘The Royal Family are the one continuous thread that holds Britain together’

In 2018, at the age of 60, Marc Almond hired a Daimler and rode to Buckingham Palace. The singer – whose video for his 1981 single Sex Dwarf proved so controversial it was confiscated by the police – was accompanied in the back seat by his 77-year old mother, Sandra Mary,…

bubmagFebruary 13, 2020

Computers in School

‘It hurts’: Student swimmer reacts to Ontario teacher strikes

UPDATE: After CBC Kids News and CBC News published articles, organizers decided to reverse the decision to cancel the swim meet. It has been rescheduled for Feb. 23, thanks to the help of organizers and teachers. Others walking the picket lines in support of teachers For months, 15-year-old Chiara Alcantara…

bubmagFebruary 13, 2020

Nukes

Former chief of staff Kelly rejects Trump North Korea approach as futile: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly has dismissed the U.S. president’s unprecedented engagement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as futile, saying he had never believed North Korea would give up its nuclear weapons and Pyongyang had played the United States to its…

bubmagFebruary 13, 2020

A Different Kind of Climate Refugee

A Different Kind of Climate Refugee

Scientists in Indonesia fear political interference

A Different Kind of Climate Refugee

A Different Kind of Climate Refugee

A Different Kind of Climate Refugee

Sea ice loss led to skinnier polar bears and fewer cubs

Marc Almond interview: ‘The Royal Family are the one continuous thread that holds Britain together’

‘It hurts’: Student swimmer reacts to Ontario teacher strikes

Former chief of staff Kelly rejects Trump North Korea approach as futile: report

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