The question of how best to share revenues from products developed using genetic data from plants and animals has emerged as a make or break issue at COP15
Negotiations at the COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal broke down over how to fund new agreements to safeguard natureMy mental health cratered this year after the death of my wife, Clare.
Getting out into the natural world has helped me to cope, saysThe USS Monitor, an iconic piece of military history, sank 160 years ago. Now a marine sanctuary, the wreck has become an unlikely testbed for ocean conservationThere are plenty of opportunities for birdwatchers to contribute to conservation science this December and January, says
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COP15 nature summit snag on money matters, 30% conservation goalWith countries digging into their positions at U.N. negotiations for a global deal to protect nature, delegates were looking to government ministers on Thursday to help resolve key sticking points around financing and land conservation commitments.
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#153: Fusion breakthrough; COP15 report; Shakespeare and climate changeThere’s been an exciting breakthrough in nuclear fusion. For the first time on Earth, a controlled fusion reaction has generated more power than it requires to run, bringing us closer than ever before to a viable way of producing clean energy for the world. So, what’s the catch? The team finds out.The New Scientist team reports from a worryingly quiet COP15. It’s hoped the biodiversity conference will be an opportunity to set ambitious global goals for nature, to reach the goal of restoring it by 2030. But with a distinct lack of world leaders in attendance, can this vital conference deliver?We now know how to spot alien spacecraft whizzing through space at warp speed…assuming some advanced civilisation has figured out how to stretch the fabric of spacetime of course. The team finds out about this new research which involves LIGO and gravitational waves.Shakespeare lived through an intense period of deforestation and climate change, and he referenced a lot of this in his work. Think back to Titania’s speech in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” about the changing seasons, and when Gloucester in Henry IV part 2 says “the seasons have changed their manners”. Shakespeare even described the energy transition from wood to coal as a fuel source. Rowan chats with Shakespearean scholar Randall Martin from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and auditions for the part of Queen of the Fairies.Acclaimed science fiction author Adrian Tchaikovsky discusses his latest book, Children of Memory, the story of a fragile human colony on a far flung outpost – and some corvids, which may or may not be sentient. On the pod are Rowan Hooper, Penny Sarchet, Matt Sparkes, Madeleine Cuff, James Dinneen and Alison Flood. To read about these subjects and much more, you can subscribe to New Scientist magazine at newscientist.com.Events and discount codes:Print-only deal: newscientist.com/printsaleClimeworks: www.climeworks.com
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COP15: China calls for action as biodiversity talks break downNegotiations at the COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal broke down over how to fund new agreements to safeguard nature
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New Zealand's unique cigarette ban may be a model for other countriesA newly passed law effectively imposes a lifetime cigarette ban for people aged 14 and younger. Researchers applauded it but said similar bans elsewhere could be more challenging.
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'We can’t have 2 countries': 2022's elections foreshadow new divides in educationEducation activists on neither the left nor the right swept last month’s elections. While conservatives found success in Republican-dominated territory, Democrats held firm in battlegrounds.
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