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  Biodiversity Needs To Be a Climate Priority

  TIME - By Julia Jackson and Eric Dinerstein

  On Dec. 7, 2022, the United Nations will meet in Montréal to set targets to prevent mass extinction. It is the most important meeting you’ve likely never heard of. The decisions that will be made at the 15th U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity (abbreviated as COP-15 or CBD) in Montréal will …

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  Hasekura Tsunenaga: The Adventures of a Christian Samurai

  thecollector.com - Greg Pasciuto

  A samurai and a Pope walk into a bar. They have a good chat and the samurai becomes a Catholic. Sounds like a dumb joke from a history nerd’s …

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  Reverse nature's decline or there is no future - UN

  BBC News - By Victoria Gill

  The United Nations' biodiversity chief says global talks under way in Montreal are the "last chance" to reverse the destruction of the natural world. "Biodiversity is the foundation of life. Without it, there is no life," Elizabeth Maruma Mrema told BBC Radio 4's Inside Science programme. But she is …

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  EU agrees to ban products linked to deforestation

  grist.org - Avery Schuyler Nunn

  The European Union has agreed to ban the import of products linked to deforestation in an effort to protect biodiversity and curb greenhouse gas …

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  Germany arrests 25 accused of plotting coup

  BBC News - By Paul Kirby

  Twenty-five people have been arrested in raids across Germany on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. The group of far-right and ex-military figures are said to have prepared for a "Day X" to storm the Reichstag parliament building and seize power. A man named as Heinrich XIII, from an …

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  Oct 18, 2019

  Scientists finally know why people get more colds and flu in winter

  CNN - Sandee LaMotte

  A new scientific finding has uncovered why we get more viral colds, flu and Covid in winter and during cold snaps.