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[ad_1] As one of the most scenic states in the country, Maine is an inspiration for many architects and designers. One architect has managed to use his family’s love of the idyllic state to build a beautiful, solar-powered home on a remote island off its coastline. Architect Noel Fedosh of …

[ad_1] According to a new report by research company BloombergNEF (BNEF) electrification of the transport, buildings and industrial sectors in Europe could slash greenhouse-gas emissions by 60 per cent between 2020 and 2050. A revolution in the use of energy by these three sectors is possible over the next 30 …

[ad_1] Wildlife conservationists and enthusiasts around the world have been celebrating an apparent silver lining in the latest coronavirus epidemic since the Xinhua News Agency in China reported earlier this month that researchers had found a 99% genetic match between a virus found in pangolins and the new human coronavirus. …

[ad_1] Mark Jaccard has been a professor for the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, Canada since 1986. Jaccard has been involved in the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the China Council for international cooperation on environment and from 1992 to 1997 he was the …

[ad_1] Fieldnotes is WWF-Canada’s newsletter about our science-based work finding solutions in the face of an unprecedented crisis in climate change and wildlife loss. If Fieldnotes was forwarded to you, please click here to subscribe to future issues. Polar bear with cubs in Wapusk National Park, Churchill, Manitoba. © Debra …

[ad_1] What makes whales so important? It’s actually a number of reasons. Undoubtedly these are amazing animals in their own right, with complex social structures, and even their own types of culture. And many of the ways that whales amaze us are the very reasons they help keep oceans healthy. …

[ad_1] An irradiated nuclear zone is hardly the most obvious animal sanctuary. But in January, almost a decade after Japan’s Fukushima disaster, scientists using remote cameras in the area around the abandoned power station discovered an abundance of wildlife. Macaques, raccoon dogs (a relative of the fox), wild boar, pheasants …

[ad_1] Salmon and steelhead could once again inhabit more than 100 miles of the upper Green River watershed now that the entire Washington congressional delegation has backed restarting a federal project to allow fish to pass the Howard Hanson Dam. The fish-passage project could open even more habitat for chinook …

[ad_1] As humans continue to rapidly expand the scope of their domination of nature — bulldozing and burning down forests and other natural areas, wiping out species, and breaking down ecosystem functions — a growing number of influential scientists and conservationists think protecting half of the planet in some form …

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