Environment

Intensive agriculture and wildfires threaten over a quarter of Europe’s grasshoppers and crickets

Over a quarter of European grasshopper, cricket and bush cricket species are being driven to extinction by unsustainable agricultural practices and the growing frequency of wildfires in Europe, a new IUCN report has found.

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Environmental and health organisations launch European citizens’ initiative to ban glyphosate

Campaigners and activists met in Brussels and other European cities (Madrid, Rome, Berlin and Paris) on February 9 to launch a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to ban glyphosate, reform the EU pesticide approval process, and set mandatory targets...

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Federal Court Protects Klamath Salmon, Tribal And Fishing Communities

On February 8, a U.S. District Court judge ordered federal agencies to immediately take steps to protect juvenile coho salmon after several years of deadly disease outbreaks in the Klamath River.

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Tornado Recovery Underway at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility

Recovery efforts are underway at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, which was impacted by a tornado at 11:25 a.m. CST Tuesday (Feb. 7). All 3,500 employees at the facility have been accounted for, with five sustaining minor injuries.

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