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2022: Emergency Mode for the Environment
As the new year gets underway, the world continues to grapple with a number of familiar challenges – the continued COVID-19 pandemic, resurgent wildfires, enduring crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Yet, 2022 could prove to…
Another Wake-Up Call: Sea Ice Loss is Speeding Up
Last week, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic, 38C, on 20 June 2020. This warming is causing previously permanently frozen permafrost below ground to thaw. The Arctic is now amongst the fastest-warming regions on…
Dragonflies Threatened as Wetlands Around the World Disappear
The destruction of wetlands is driving the decline of dragonflies worldwide, according to the first global assessment of these species in today’s update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Their decline is symptomatic of the widespread loss of…
Plastic Planet: How Tiny Plastic Particles are Polluting our Soil
The millions of tons of plastic swirling around the world’s oceans have garnered a lot of media attention recently. But plastic pollution arguably poses a bigger threat to the plants and animals – including humans – who are based on…
IMMOFINANZ to reach emission-free status by 2040
IMMOFINANZ is making an important contribution to the fight against climate change with its new Net Zero Emission Strategy. Plans call for a reduction of 60 percent (below the 2019 level) in all greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 – and…
A Healthy Environment as a Human Right in Coastal East Africa
In October 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council recognized that having a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right. So what does this mean in practice – especially in places where economies, food security, and cultural identiy…
The first scientific conference within the Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube
The lifelineMDD online mid-term conference, organized by the project team at the end of November, gathered over 100 researchers, scientists, nature conservationists, water management representatives and other participants from Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia. The aim was to present the…