Planet Earth
There are 173 item(s) tagged with the keyword "Biodiversity".
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- 1. Protecting biodiversity in palm oil
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News that chocolate, bread and dried fruit all share a common ingredient with household detergents and cosmetics might sound both unlikely and unappetising. However, palm oil is used in each of these and many more everyday products.
- 2. I'm a bat biologist
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Contrary to popular belief, bats are friendly creatures that play an important role in many environments around the world.
- 3. It is a tale of survival for plants and insects
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Insect pollinators that have survived the impacts of intensive agriculture may be more able to resist future environmental changes than previously thought.
- 4. Clear biodiversity commitments made by nearly one third of the world's biggest companies
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Some of the world's biggest private sector companies are committing to address their environmental impacts and factoring biodiversity into their sustainability reports.
- 5. Genetic toolkit gives periwinkles seashore advantage
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Periwinkles, struggling to survive the seashore battleground, have developed a genetic toolkit to help them adapt to different environments, a new study shows.
- 6. Why is the UK's honeypot shrinking?
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An innovative monitoring scheme could provide a better understanding of the factors that impact on the size and health of honeybee populations, and on honey yields.
- 7. Helping species on the move
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Meet the software for working out where species will thrive in future, as global warming pushes them north seeking cooler places and key habitat is lost.
- 8. Secrets of sudden death of 200,000 antelopes in Central Asia
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In May 2015 the sudden death of more than 200,000 saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan baffled the world.
- 9. On the way to plastic-free oceans
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Four days since leaving port, Dr Katsiaryna Pabortsava reaches her destination. She's in the middle of the North Atlantic, thousands of miles from land, and she's looking for microplastics.
- 10. Your tropical food trolley
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Tropical climates in the depths of Asia, Africa or South America might seem a world away from the checkout queue in your average Scottish supermarket or corner shop. But if your basket contains chocolate, coffee, bananas or rice, you can almost guarantee that what you eat comes from far warmer places thousands of miles away.
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