From industrious sharks to the bird of the year, here’s what caught our attention this week on the climate and nature beat.
Here’s what else caught our attention this week on the climate and nature beat.All the noise about the week’s impending winter storm pushed news about COP15 — the global conference on biodiversity — off the front page. The conference wrapped up Dec. 19 in Montreal and thesigned onto by nearly 200 nations. The U.S. isn’t one of them.
Cut to the chase: The pledge to protect 30% of the planet’s land and water by 2030 sounds ambitious, but also like the kind of target that’s never been met in the past.The Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium announced a joint research paper investigating a virgin birth among the aquarium’s zebra sharks. Bubbles, a female shark, fertilized her own eggs — not uncommon for certain species in the absence of males, but in this case, Bubbles had a couple of suitors at hand and still opted to go it alone.
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