Urban, Suburban Tendencies and Impacts

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  Rewilding: is it the conservation silver bullet we need?

  sciencefocus.com - Adam Hart

  Rewilding is hard to avoid. Almost everyone, it seems, is rewilding something, somewhere. Landowners are exhorted to rewild farmland, moorland and …

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  World Tiger Day: The cats have gone extinct in 3 southeast Asian countries; here is why

  downtoearth.org.in

  As the world celebrates yet another World Tiger Day July 29, 2022, there is sobering news. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature …

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  Researchers discover why most life-long smokers never develop lung cancer

  thebrighterside.news - Joseph Shavit

  Cigarette smoking is overwhelmingly the main cause of lung cancer, yet only a minority of smokers develop the disease. A study led by scientists at …

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  Unsustainable logging, fishing and hunting 'driving extinction'

  BBC News - By Helen Briggs

  One in five people around the world rely on wild animals, plants and fungi for food and livelihoods, according to a landmark assessment. But many wild species are not being harvested sustainably, putting food security at risk, the report found. In 2019, experts estimated that one million plants and …

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  40 Years of Energy Consumption By Each Country Visualized Around the World

  boardingarea.com - Brian Cohen

  Whether the source to produce energy is from oil, natural gas, and other types of fossil fuels; nuclear power; or wind, hydroelectricity, solar …

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  Mapped: Energy Consumption Per Capita Around the World

  visualcapitalist.com - Govind Bhutada

  Mapping Global Energy Consumption Per Capita In the four decades since 1980, global energy consumption doubled from 77 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) …