Leatherback sea turtles choose nest sites carefully, study finds
After hatching and dispersing across the world’s oceans, the female leatherbacks return to their natal beaches to lay clutches of eggs in the sand. A new study offers fresh insights into their nesting choices. However, human encroachment on leatherback nesting beaches, in the form of beachfront construction and sand mining, is a major threat to the animals’ continuation as a species.
Thousands flee as powerful typhoon slams Philippines
About 725,000 people fled their homes and communities braced for heavy rain and coastal floods of up to 13 feet as Typhoon Melor slammed Monday into the eastern Philippines, officials said.
Time to turn words into climate action
Words must be put into action to save the planet. The post-2020 Paris Agreement ends decades-long rows between rich and poor nations over how to carry out what will be a multi-trillion dollar campaign to cap global warming and cope with the impacts of a shifting climate.
What does COP21 deal really mean for Earth’s future?
Scientists who closely monitored the talks in Paris said it was not the agreement that humanity really needed. By itself, it will not save the planet. 50 years after the first warning about global warming was put on the desk of a US president, and quickly forgotten, the political system of the world is finally responding in a way that scientists see as commensurate with the scale of the threat…