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Joys of (virtual) Spring: Cambridge University streams online garden tours

Posted on April 6, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

LONDON (Reuters) - Spring is normally a busy season for Cambridge University Botanic Garden but as Britain enters its third week of enforced lockdown, visitors are absent - the lilacs and daffodils flowering for no one. But the gardeners have…

Kenya, conservation and music: Q&A with singer Barbara Guantai

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Erik Hoffner | 0 Comments

Musician Barbara Guantai fuses Afro-jazz, pop, and soul, a combination that blends well when she unleashes her artistic expression as a Kenyan singer, songwriter and performer. Based in Nairobi, a city whose outskirts include a national park where rhinos and…

After-coronavirus, SE Asia strongly favours crackdown on wildlife trade, says WWF

Posted on April 6, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has generated overwhelming support for the closure of markets selling illegal wildlife across Southeast Asia, an epicenter of the multi-billion-dollar trade, the World Wildlife Fund said in a public opinion poll on Monday. FILE…

Malta approves bird-hunting season despite coronavirus

Posted on April 6, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta said on Monday it would allow hunters to hunt quail from April 10 until the end of the month, despite health authorities urging everyone to stay indoors to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The decision…

As COVID-19 spreads, commodity markets rumble

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Genevieve Belmaker | 0 Comments

The images are stark. Smogless skies over Los Angeles. A drop in air pollution over northern Italy that’s so sharp it can be seen from space. Emissions from vehicles in New York City are down nearly 50%. For a battered…

Standoff over Philippines’ Didipio mines escalates despite COVID-19 lockdown

Posted on April 6, 2020 by leilani | 0 Comments

NUEVA VIZCAYA, Philippines — The ongoing lockdown in the Philippines due to the novel coronavirus pandemic has failed to defuse a standoff between a local community and OceanaGold Philippines Inc (OGPI) over a controversial gold and copper mine in the…

Indigenous Papuans initiate own lockdowns in face of COVID-19

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Basten Gokkon | 0 Comments

Local authorities and indigenous communities in Indonesia’s Papua region have imposed a sweeping lockdown to minimize the spread of the novel coronavirus. The region, which comprises the provinces of West Papua and Papua, is the least developed in Indonesia, with…

Investors line up against Mizuho support for coal

Posted on April 6, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

TOKYO (Reuters) - Investors with nearly $200 billion in assets holding shares in Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group (8411.T) say they plan to back a shareholder motion urging the bank to cut its lending for coal and other fossil fuels, they…

Home – The Allegheny Front

Posted on April 6, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

How we're responding to coronavirus: State park and forest facilities are closed, trails are open. Advice from a pediatric infectious disease physician for staying safe outdoors. Pipeline and cracker construction is shut down, but farms and food processors are open.…

Indonesian lawmakers push to pass deregulation bills as COVID-19 grips country

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Hans Nicholas Jong | 0 Comments

JAKARTA — Indonesia’s parliament looks set to push through contentious bills that threaten to roll back environmental protections in favor of facilitating business. Activists have denounced the decision to resume deliberations of the so-called omnibus bill on job creation and…