Tag: World Wide Fund for Nature
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Nord Stream explosions severely affected maritime life – report
The Nord Stream 1 and 2 explosions near Bornholm last September caused untold damage to the seabed in a particularly vulnerable area of the Baltic Sea, according to a new report. The four explosions stirred up 250,000 tonnes of contaminated seabed – an area twice the size of Bornholm. They released sediment containing toxic substances…
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Vaquitan – next in line to be eradicated
Participants: Tom Arnbom, associate professor of ecology and nature conservation expert at the World Wide Fund for Nature; Torbjörn Ebenhard, research leader at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Innovation and technology in focus when the climate summit ended
Joe Biden’s climate summit ended yesterday with mixed results, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature’s climate adviser Ola Hansèn. “The United States delivered better than expected. At the same time, it is a great disappointment to the world that the big emissions like China and India did not come up with any new…
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Greenpeace: “ecological disaster”
A large spill on Russia’s east coast is likely to contain a water – soluble poison. The World Wide Fund for Nature says this today, noting that an area of yellow foam is now moving along the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, northeast of Japan and west of North America. In its tracks are dead…
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WWF: Swedish forestry threatens species richness
In Sweden, forestry does not take sufficient account of biodiversity, warns the World Wide Fund for Nature in a new report. This makes forests vulnerable to future environmental changes. WWF points out that more and more species that are dependent on the forest environment are red-listed in Sweden and that we are also harvesting forests…