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SIPA Alumni Champion Wildlife Protection at Major Conference in Uzbekistan – State of the Planet

For two weeks in late November and early December, the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, became the epicenter of global conservation diplomacy. Delegates from around the world gathered for the 20th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora—better known as CITES COP20. Their task […]
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The breast cancer blind spot

Transform Susan’s words have echoed in Parliament. Since the 2024 general election, 460 MPs have pledged support to the Lobular Moon Shot Project.  A recent national survey conducted by Merlin Strategy found that eight in ten Britons support the government funding for a £20 million research initiative to combat lobular cancer, with 86 per cent […]
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Scientists Search for Ancient Climate Clues Beneath Antarctic Ice  – State of the Planet

The vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough ice to raise global sea level by 4 to 5 meters if it melts completely. It is protected on one side by the Ross Ice Shelf, the world’s largest floating ice mass, that serves as a buttress slowing the flow of glaciers and ice streams towards the […]
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‘A hubristic, colossal wreck’

It is a highly influential, seductive proof-of-concept of a certain vision for our human futures, and to me, that vision is not a healthy one – a hubristic, colossal wreck. When things get this existential, I immediately felt, it goes beyond aesthetics or politics.  Ambivalence Isn’t there something inherently polluting, not just carbon-wise but in […]
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Proposing a GenAI Chatbot Framework for Youth Disaster Risk Reduction – State of the Planet

An artist’s illustration of artificial intelligence. Credit: Google DeepMind via Pexels Over the past decade, communities across the United States have faced a steady rise in severe weather events. Climate Central reports more than 193 major disasters during this period, resulting in over $1.5 trillion in economic losses and 6,403 deaths. Beyond the staggering figures, […]
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Securing the Future of Glacier Monitoring in a Warming World – State of the Planet

Susitna Glacier, Alaska. Acquired in 2009 by the ASTER instrument on NASA’s Terra Satellite. (Jesse Allen & Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory) The Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise, or GlaMBIE—a European Space Agency project launched in 2022—aims to strengthen global glacier monitoring by combining field observations with satellite-based data from remote sensing technologies. By bringing together researchers […]
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Britain ‘seeking a quarter of global lithium’

There is a serious lack of transparency around the political assumptions behind which sectors the government seeks to grow – with deliberate obfuscations. For example, it says: “Due to sensitivities, demand estimates for the defence sector have been excluded.”  This is worrying, especially since Global Justice Now’s own research has shown that demand for critical minerals […]
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COP30 Is Over. But for the World’s Most Vulnerable, the Crisis Is Ongoing. – State of the Planet

COP30 has ended, the negotiations have closed and global leaders have returned home. But for millions of people on the frontlines of the climate crisis, nothing has ended. The floodwaters have not receded. The crops destroyed have not returned. The next storm has not paused to wait for the next summit. In South Sudan, where […]
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Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function

Hundreds of mitochondrial proteins rely on N-terminal presequences for organellar targeting and import. While generally described as positively charged amphiphilic helices, presequences lack a consensus motif and thus likely promote protein import into mitochondria with variable efficiencies. Indeed, the concept of presequence strength underlies biological models such as stress sensing, yet a quantitative analysis of […]
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Labour’s ‘deeply alarming’ attack on protest rights

British authorities have severely restricted the right to protest in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in its latest report. ‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK documents that the UK’s […]
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Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function

Hundreds of mitochondrial proteins rely on N-terminal presequences for organellar targeting and import. While generally described as positively charged amphiphilic helices, presequences lack a consensus motif and thus likely promote protein import into mitochondria with variable efficiencies. Indeed, the concept of presequence strength underlies biological models such as stress sensing, yet a quantitative analysis of […]
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Labour’s ‘deeply alarming’ attack on protest rights

British authorities have severely restricted the right to protest in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in its latest report. ‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK documents that the UK’s […]
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