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Half of all wetlands ‘destroyed since 1900,’ threatening human welfare
An alarming 50 percent of the world’s wetlands have been destroyed in the last 100 years, threatening human welfare at a time of increasing water scarcity, a new report said. Wetlands serve as a source of drinking water and provide protection against floods and storms, yet they have been decimated…
UN pushes energy projects to stop deforestation in the Congo
Forest conservation is a major challenge for the Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s second biggest green lung after the Amazon, amid a paucity of energy production and renewable alternatives. The country’s massive tropical forest, four times the size of France, covers some 1.55 million square kilometres (600,000 square miles),…
Oceans’ fish could disappear in 40 years: UN
The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday. “If the various estimates we have received… come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are out of fish,” Pavan…
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