Media accreditation (in person in Cali, Colombia and virtual) closes Aug 31 for the 16th Meeting of the Parties to the CBD (COP 16) and its Protocols (the Cartagena Protocol and the Nagoya Protocol), 21 Oct. – 1 Nov. 2024 and the 5th Meeting of the CBD's Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 5), 16-18 Oct. 2024.
"Pets were once dismissed as trivial scientific subjects. Today, companion animal science is hot."
"As dengue cases break international records, U.S. health officials warned doctors Tuesday to be alert for the mosquito-borne virus, prompting questions about where exactly the disease has been detected."
"Dozens of countries have voiced their support for concluding in the next few weeks World Trade Organization negotiations on cutting harmful fishing subsidies that contribute to overfishing, two documents showed on Friday."
"Over more than an hour and a half of back-and-forth, climate change got just a couple minutes of airtime during a CNN-hosted debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump on Thursday."
"The severe floods sweeping through the Midwest are a potent example of how extreme weather damages the transportation arteries we all rely on."
"Pots and pans, soda cans, skyscrapers, laptops, even solar panels — all these things share a common ingredient in aluminum. The material is ubiquitous and useful, but the process of making and recycling it is a major source of planet-warming pollution."
"Water pollution levels in Paris' River Seine remain much higher than allowed for bathing, data showed on Friday, one month before the Olympics in which the capital's landmark waterway is meant to be one of the swimming venues."
"A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has refused to block a new federal rule requiring Denka Performance Elastomers to dramatically limit the release of chloroprene, a likely cancer-causing chemical, within 90 days or shut down its LaPlace plant."
"The "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm Hurricane Beryl barrelled across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday afternoon toward the Caribbean's Windward Islands, where it is expected to bring life-threatening winds and flash flooding on Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said."
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[2] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-science-went-dogs-and-cats
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/science/pets-research-dogs-cats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.300.4lEI.bu6MO-dCeVO3&smid=url-share
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/maps-show-dengue-fever-risk-areas-cdc-warns-global-case-surge
[5] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dengue-fever-map-what-to-know-global-case-surge/
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/countries-pushing-reach-wto-fishing-deal-next-month-documents-show
[7] https://www.reuters.com/world/countries-pushing-reach-wto-fishing-deal-next-month-documents-show-2024-06-28/
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-change-gets-short-shrift-presidential-debate
[9] https://grist.org/politics/biden-trump-presidential-debate-climate-change-question-cnn-tapper-bash/
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/floods-widespread-heat-waves-are-undermining-us-transportation-systems
[11] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28062024/todays-climate-midwest-floods-heat-transportation/
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chart-aluminum-has-big-co2-problem-here-s-how-clean-it
[13] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-industry/chart-aluminum-has-a-big-co2-problem-heres-how-to-clean-it-up
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/seine-water-pollution-levels-well-above-limits-one-month-games
[15] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/seine-water-pollution-levels-still-well-above-limits-one-month-before-games-2024-06-28/
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/court-wont-block-rule-la-plants-likely-cancer-causing-emissions
[17] https://www.nola.com/news/environment/court-refuses-to-block-rule-on-emissions-at-louisiana-plant/article_a9f52f70-34c3-11ef-ad36-8f24df23dd44.html
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/beryl-earliest-category-4-hurricane-record-imperils-caribbean
[19] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hurricane-beryl-has-become-very-dangerous-category-3-says-us-agency-2024-06-30/
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=426
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=423
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