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Richard Crête prend un grand risque

Rivers originating in Canada’s boreal provide nutrients to marine life, create Arctic sea ice, and influence currents that stretch thousands of miles.Un groupe international d'experts scientifiques a appelé cette semaine les dirigeants politiques et autochtones du Canada à préserver les millions de lacs et rivières de sa forêt boréale, dont l'eau joue un rôle primordial pour la glace de l'océan Arctique. PLUS >>>
Semaine de l'eau: les Canadiens encouragés à conserver la ressource
Un léger tremblement de terre
Ottawa manque de leadership en environnement, constate le commissaire
Quebec plane crash kills pilot
Les plus grands lacs du globe se réchauffent
Ottawa ne comprendrait pas le phénomène des eaux contaminées
ds lack know-how to deal with dirty rivers and lakes, reports say
Lakes, rivers at risk due to knowledge gaps
Le Québec incapable de freiner la perte de la biodiversité
Biodiversity loss needs an internationally agreed rescue planThe research, undertaken by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Natural History Museum, London, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), was carried out as part of a worldwide effort to assess the status of the world’s flora and fauna and monitor threatened plant species.
The study, known as the ‘Sampled Red List Index’ (SRLI), is still pending approval but listed species are expected to be released at the end of October. (...)
At the UN's COP10 biodiversity meeting in Nagoya next month, officials might look to remind the world why species matter to humans: for oxygen, drugs, making agricultural crops more productive — and a sense of wonder. (...)
Britain and other countries face a collapse of their economies and loss of culture if they do not protect the environment better, the world's leading champion of nature has warned.
"What we are seeing today is a total disaster," said Ahmed Djoghlaf, the secretary-general of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. "No country has met its targets to protect nature. We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. If current levels [of destruction] go on we will reach a tipping point very soon. The future of the planet now depends on governments taking action in the next few years." (...)
source du photo: Le Rappel via Nos Lacs: Sous la Surface
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