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3 Cities Show Ways To Make Local Progress On The Sustainable Development Goals

A year after all members of the United Nations adopted an ambitious 15-year agenda known as the Sustainable Development Goals, we are beginning to see implementation action...

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Hollywood

Sharon Osbourne Asks Croatia To Ban Fur Farming

This week, X Factor judge and animal advocate Sharon Osbourne wrote to Croatia's minister of agriculture, Davor Romić, asking him to preserve a complete ban on fur farming...

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Sustainable Development

This Giant Vertical Farming Robot Is Coming For Your Crops

In 2011, the number of people on Earth passed 7 billion and by 2050 that number is expected to jump up to almost 10 billion. Aside from trying to feed all these people, we'...

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Environment

Bird Species Vanish From UK Due To Climate Change And Habitat Loss

Climate change has already led to the vanishing of some bird species in parts of England, where intensively farmed land gives them no room to adapt to warming temperatures....

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Environment

Grass Was Greener But Wildlife Struggled In Muggy 2016

Farmers made hay but rampant grass growth in 2016 made life hard for butterflies and even puffin chicks, according to a review of the year’s wildlife and weather by t...

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Environment

Pesticides Stop Bees Buzzing And Releasing Pollen, Says Study

The world’s most widely used insecticides harm the ability of bees to vibrate flowers and shake out the pollen to fertilise crops, according to preliminary results fr...

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Environment

World On Track To Lose Two-Thirds Of Wild Animals By 2020, Major Report Warns

The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world u...

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Sustainable Development

Maharashtra Approves Rs 40.50 Crore Programme Of Distribution Of Soil Health Card

Summary: For the year 2016-17, the Centre and the state to spend over Rs 40.50 crore to distribute the soil health cards. "The Soil Health Card will empower the farmers wit...

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Bollywood

R Madhavan Goes On A Tree Planting Spree This Monsoon

R Madhavan, who wholeheartedly supports organic farming and even encourages fans to grow atleast one vegetable, to understand the hardship and plight of a farmer, is also d...

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Orcas Are First Non-Humans Whose Evolution Is Driven By Culture

You could call it a culture shock. Many researchers accept that cultural experiences have helped shape human evolution – and evidence has now emerged that the same ma...

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