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New Indonesia capital imperils ancient Eden with ‘ecological disaster’

The twisting road that leads to Indonesia’s future capital is lined with dense rainforest and pockets of plantations, punctuated every so often with monkeys enjoying a laze out on the tarmac. Located in eastern Borneo — the world’s third-largest island — Nusantara is set to replace sinking and polluted Jakarta as new Indonesia capital and political centre by late 2024.…

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Can Europe’s new Social Climate Fund protect poor from rising carbon cost?

As the European Union prepares to extend controls on planet-heating carbon emissions to heating and transport, politicians are wary of the social unrest sparked in France in 2018 when the government hiked taxes on diesel, hitting consumers hard. The “yellow vest” protests over the rising cost of living and perceived injustice of making ordinary people pay for climate measures forced…

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Fossil fuels, fairness, finance: Climate fights to watch in 2023

From huge floods in Pakistan and Nigeria to heatwaves in India and drought-fuelled hunger in the Horn of Africa, vulnerable countries faced mounting climate disasters in 2022. That has made it much harder for wealthy nations – whose emissions have driven the crisis – to ignore the need for more financial help for those suffering the most in a warming…

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Robot plant grows, wilts on fate of UN nature talks

It’s not always easy to make sense of the complex environmental diplomacy taking place at a UN summit billed as humanity’s last hope to save nature. That’s why a scientist and artist have teamed up to build a large, data-driven robotic plant that withers or flourishes depending on countries’ policy commitments: a tangible demonstration of how human actions will impact…

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Africa’s first botanical art gallery opens in Cape Province 

Most people planning a holiday in South Africa probably think of lions and elephants, deserted beaches and good wine. Few know that the area around Cape Town is also one of the world’s most extraordinary regions for wild plants. Entrepreneur Michael Lutzeyer wants to change the perception of the region, and has created Africa’s first florilegium – an art gallery dedicated to depicting plant…

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The first photograph of the entire globe: 50 years on, Blue Marble still inspires

December 7 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Blue Marble photograph. The crew of NASA’s Apollo 17 spacecraft – the last manned mission to the Moon – took a photograph of Earth and changed the way we visualised our planet forever. Taken with a Hasselblad film camera, it was the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and is…

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