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This week on the show, our hosts talk to Heather Browning, a philosopher at the University of Southampton in the U.K, and Deb Brown, a philosopher and the director of the Critical Thinking Project at the University of Queensland in Australia, about which animals feel pain and more.
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While Lakshadweep was found to be the most affected, with up to 37% of the coral cover bleached or dead at intermediate levels of accumulated heat stress, Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park (MGMNP) in Andaman Islands faced only 11.5% bleaching or mortality.
Construction of a power plant that will burn waste to generate electricity at a landfill near Bangladesh’s capital faces strong opposition from nearby communities, who say they fear severe health risks posed by toxic air pollution, reports contributor Eyamin Sajid for Mongabay.
By Kate Abnett and Sudarshan Varadhan BRUSSELS/SINGAPORE, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The decision was expected to take minutes. But after nearly three years of debate, members of the world’s leading authority…
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the largest independent international organization dedicated to nature conservation and environmental protection in the world, and the Zoological Society of…
A new-to-science species of egg-eating snake has been documented in the forested mountains of southern Ethiopia, according to a recent study. The snake, which has an ink-black body, bluish skin between its scales, and stark-white throat and belly, has been named the white-throated egg-eater (Dasypeltis albigularis).
