Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’

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There is “no credible pathway to 1.5C in place”, the UN’s environment agency has said, and the failure to reduce carbon emissions means the only way to limit the worst impacts of the climate crisis is a “rapid transformation of societies”.

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The UN Environment report analysed the gap between the CO2 cuts pledged by countries and the cuts needed to limit any rise in global temperature to 1.5C, the internationally agreed target. Progress has been “woefully inadequate” it concluded.

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Current pledges for action by 2030, if delivered in full, would mean a rise in global heating of about 2.5C and catastrophic extreme weather around the world. A rise of 1C to date has caused climate disasters in…

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Here’s how far behind the world is on reining in climate change

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October 27, 20228:06 AM ET

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Coal power has resurged since the pandemic, like at this coal processing plant in China’s Shanxi Province, but research shows it should be phased out by 2030 to avoid extreme climate change.

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World leaders will begin climate talks in Egypt in a little over a week, and tensions are expected to run high in the negotiations to reduce heat-trapping emissions.

Now, new research shows the world has already fallen drastically behind in adopting the changes needed to avoid a future with even more extreme storms, heat waves and floods.

Collectively, countries have promised to reduce heat-trapping emissions by about 3% by 2030, compared to 2020 levels. That’s far from the 45% drop that’s needed, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Program.

Cutting emissions nearly in half by the end of the…

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Industry man hospitalized following bird hunting accident in Starks

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The 66-year-old man was struck by pellets in the face, chest and arm Saturday when his hunting partner fired on a bird that had been flushed from woods near the Starks town office.

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STARKS — An Industry man was in stable condition at a Bangor hospital after he was mistakenly shot by a friend while the pair were bird hunting last weekend in Starks, according to the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

The two were hunting Saturday in a field behind the town office in Starks when their dog went on-point toward nearby woods, Mark Latti, a spokesman for Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, said in an email late Wednesday. David Dorr, 66, was walking ahead of his friend, a woman in her 60s from Rhode Island, when she moved into the woods to flush…

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After losing 12-year-old son in hunting accident, Minnesota family urges others to be cautious

“Let this be a lesson for you as mother: Don’t allow your child to go hunting, so you won’t encounter similar experiences that I have. My heart’s broken to pieces,” said Xiong, Jeremy’s mother.

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After losing 12-year-old son in hunting accident, Minnesota family urges others to be cautious

A St. Paul family is making a plea to other Minnesota families after losing their 12-year-old son in a hunting accident in rural Cass County.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9)-A St. Paul family is making a plea to other Minnesota families after losing their 12-year-old son ina hunting accidentin rural Cass County.

Two weeks after 12-year-old Jeremy Her died, his parents Blia Xiong and Thai Her, are still in disbelief. FOX 9 spoke with them through a translator at the Hmong 18 Council.

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Utah wildlife agency proposes changes to elk hunting as popularity soars

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ByCarter Williams, KSL.com| Posted – Oct. 25, 2022 at 7:21 p.m.

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources unveiled a possible new elk management plan Tuesday, which will go through a public process before it takes effect in 2023.

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources unveiled a possible new elk management plan Tuesday, which will go through a public process before it takes effect in 2023. (Utah Division of Wildlife Resources)


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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah wildlife officials are proposing a new plan to manage elk populations as their agency’s current plan expires and the demand to hunt the species grows to all-time highs.

Dax Mangus, the big game coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, says that the proposal seeks to address growing concerns about the ability to obtain an elk hunting permit and overcrowding during the hunting season.

“We evaluated a lot of different options, trade-offs, and ultimately, in the end, have drafted some really innovative new strategies to help with elk…

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Hunters Encouraged to Have Deer Tested for CWD

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Tue, 10/25/2022

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The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will continue its Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program during the 2022 hunting season by sampling deer for chronic wasting disease from select units in the western portion of the state, and unit 2B in the east.

Samples will be tested from deer taken from units 1, 2B, 3A1, 3A2, 3A3, 3A4, 3B1, 3B2, 3C, 3D1, 3D2, 3E1, 3E2, 3F1, 3F2, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 4E and 4F.

CWD is a slow-moving brain disease of deer, moose and elk that can cause population-level impacts under high infection rates.

Hunters are encouraged to drop off heads of adult or yearling deer atcollection locations. Fawns and head-shot deer cannot be tested. Hunters wishing to keep the heads can bring them to a Game and Fish district office during business hours to have them sampled.

Self-sampling kits are availablefor hunters who wish to…

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Family holds onto hope that missing Idaho Falls hunter will be found

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Andrea Olson, EastIdahoNews.com

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Posted:Oct 24, 2022, 12:14 pm|Updated:Oct 24, 2022, 1:36 pm

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HOWE — There is no sign of the 73-year-old man who disappeared last week.

Deputies from Butte County Sheriff’s Office and volunteers have been looking for Michael Faller of Idaho Falls.

On Sunday, search and rescue teams were out with a cadaver dog. Others on horses were also searching, according to family spokeswoman Ashley Countryman.

“There’s just no signs of him or even an animal if maybe he thought he had gotten one because he was hunting,” said Countryman. “There’s just no trace of anything.”

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Countryman told EastIdahoNews.com Faller went camping with his wife in the North Creek Road area of Butte County on Monday, Oct. 17. Faller went hunting and checked in with…

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Ketchikan’s tribe asks federal board to expand subsistence hunting and fishing opportunities

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 Raegan Miller, KRBD – Ketchikan

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October 25, 2022

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Pink salmon swim in the Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Joe Serio/U.S. Forest Service)

Access to traditional foods has long been a priority for Ketchikan’s federally recognized tribe. But for decades, Ketchikan residents have been barred from taking part in federal subsistence hunts and fisheries.

Now, Ketchikan Indian Community is pushing to change that. It hinges on one big question: is Ketchikan a rural community?

Trixie Bennett, the president of Ketchikan’s tribe, said the push to designate Ketchikan as a rural community is a major step toward the tribe’s goal of food sovereignty.

“Our food is our way of life,” Bennett said. “Our food is the medicine, our culture is the medicine.”

If Ketchikan were classified as rural, all residents — Native and non-Native — would be…

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Two Men Cited For Deer Hunting Violations in Plaquemines Parish

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OCTOBER252022

LAW ENFORCEMENTAdam EinckBaton Rouge

https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/news/two-men-cited-for-deer-hunting-violations-in-plaquemines-parish

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents cited two men in separate cases for alleged deer hunting violations in Plaquemines Parish.

Agents cited Daniel W. Boehle, 43, of Belle Chasse, on Oct. 2 for taking a deer during a closed season. Agents cited Eneas Mayorga, 37, of Braithwaite, on Oct. 21 for hunting deer without basic hunting and big game hunting licenses, and failing to tag and validate the deer.

Agents received a tip about Boehle harvesting a deer on the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse on Oct. 2. Agents interviewed Boehle that day and found him in possession of a freshly harvested doe deer. The legal take for does in this area opened on Oct. 16.

Agents also received a complaint about Mayorga shooting a deer without the required licenses on Oct. 18. Agents interviewed Mayorga on…

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Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Found in Melting Tibetan Glaciers

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NATURE26 October 2022

https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-15000-year-old-viruses-found-in-melting-tibetan-glaciers

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Ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of melting permafrost, almost like something out of a horror movie.

From incredibly preserved extinct megafauna like thewoolly rhino, to the 40,000-year-old remains of agiant wolf, andbacteria over 750,000 years old.

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Not all of these things are dead.

Centuries-old mosswas able to spring back to life in the warmth of the laboratory. So too, incredibly, were tiny42,000-year-old roundworms.

These fascinating glimpses of organisms from Earth’s long distant past are revealing the history of ancient ecosystems, including details of the environments in which they existed.

But the melt has also created some concerns aboutancient virusescoming back to haunt us.

“Melting will not only lead to the loss of those ancient, archived microbes andviruses

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