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Global food supply chain at risk from hackers
The growth of "smart" farm machinery is increasing the risk of hacking of food and farming systems.
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Global food supply chain at risk from hackers
The growth of "smart" farm machinery is increasing the risk of hacking of food and farming systems.
Why scientists are freezing threatened species
Conservation scientists hope that preserving genetic material offers future insurance against extinction
Boeing astronaut capsule launches on test flight
The aerospace company sends up its Starliner vehicle on a mission to prove its capabilities in orbit.
EU reveals its plans to stop using Russian gas
It will invest in pipelines in other countries but will speed up a shift to green energy.
Climate change swells odds of record India heatwave
A UK study says record-breaking temperatures in NW India and Pakistan are now 100 times more likely.
Nasa's 'Marsquake' mission in its last months
The InSight probe will keep listening for tremors even as its power levels are in terminal decline.
Girls see physics as for white men only, MPs told
"If you are black or a woman, you don't see yourself fitting in," a leading female physicist says.
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Global food supply chain at risk from hackers
The growth of "smart" farm machinery is increasing the risk of hacking of food and farming systems.
Why scientists are freezing threatened species
Conservation scientists hope that preserving genetic material offers future insurance against extinction
Boeing astronaut capsule launches on test flight
The aerospace company sends up its Starliner vehicle on a mission to prove its capabilities in orbit.
EU reveals its plans to stop using Russian gas
It will invest in pipelines in other countries but will speed up a shift to green energy.
Climate change swells odds of record India heatwave
A UK study says record-breaking temperatures in NW India and Pakistan are now 100 times more likely.
Nasa's 'Marsquake' mission in its last months
The InSight probe will keep listening for tremors even as its power levels are in terminal decline.
Girls see physics as for white men only, MPs told
"If you are black or a woman, you don't see yourself fitting in," a leading female physicist says.
Why scientists are freezing threatened species
Conservation scientists hope that preserving genetic material offers future insurance against extinction
Boeing astronaut capsule launches on test flight
The aerospace company sends up its Starliner vehicle on a mission to prove its capabilities in orbit.
EU reveals its plans to stop using Russian gas
It will invest in pipelines in other countries but will speed up a shift to green energy.
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Zimbabwe makes ivory stockpile sale plea
Copyright: AFPImage caption: Zimbabwe allowed photographers to take pictures of its ivory stockpile this week Zimbabwe’s government wants to sell some of its ivory and rhino horn stockpile - estimated to be around $600m (£480m) by the state-run Herald newspaper - to help fund its conservation efforts.
Environment Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu made the appeal ahead of a world conservation conference that is to be held in Panama in November.
He told the BBC that close to 65% of the world’s elephant population was in the country which had a huge impact on human habits.
The Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) only permits the trade in elephants in exceptional circumstances.
“Conservation is very expensive,” the minister told the BBC’s Newsday programme.
He said that he did not want the issue to be politicised and that on two previous occasions that Cites had allowed ivory stockpile sales, the money had been ploughed back into protecting wildlife.
The Covid pandemic had also meant that tourism revenues - used for conservation - had plummeted over the last two years, he said.
Gabon plea to save forests to halt climate change
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Copyright: Getty ImagesImage caption: Almost 90% of Gabon is covered by tropical woodland Gabon has called on developed nations to pay for the upkeep of the central African country's mangroves and forests that are helping to absorb the world's excess carbon.
Gabon's Minister for Forests, Seas and Environment, Lee White, said that failing to conserve the dense rainforest of the Congo Basin would mean the world has lost the fight against climate change.
Gabon is one of the most carbon-positive countries in the world, and says it wants to further limit the impact of its extractive industries, including oil and logging.
Almost 90% of Gabon is covered by tropical woodland that is home to endangered species including gorillas, elephants and chimpanzees; its coastline has numerous hump-backed whales.
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