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GENEVA — Humanity faces unprecedented engineering challenges if it is to survive. Solutions to these challenges are waiting to be discovered in plants, animals, and microbes, but these could be lost forever, if we do not preserve the rich diversity of life on Earth.The UN biodiversity conference, COP15, is due to wrap up on Dec. 19.. This weekend, we are looking at some of the ways that humanity is reliant on biodiversity for a healthy and thriving global ecosystem.When a species goes extinct, it takes with it all of the physical, chemical, biological, and behavioral attributes that have been selected for that species, after having been tested and re-tested in countless evolutionary experiments over many thousands, and perhaps millions, of years of evolution.These include designs for...
December 18, 2022
As biodiversity degrades, nature’s solutions are lost for ever
December 18, 2022
Pope Francis signed resignation letter in 2013 in case of bad health
December 18, 2022
Five dead in Russian strikes, as Kyiv recovers from barrage
December 17, 2022
Police not seeking suspects over Berlin aquarium explosion
December 17, 2022
Leo Varadkar becomes Ireland’s PM again in job swap deal
BRUSSELS — Brussels added Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to the list of official candidates to join the European Union on Thursday, ending a six-year wait since the small Balkan country filed its membership application to the 27-nation bloc.Bosnia is now a part of the waiting room that includes Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Turkey, despite continuing criticism of the way it is run.The approval came after European affairs ministers agreed unanimously earlier in the week to endorse a recommendation from the bloc’s executive arm to grant Bosnia the status.“Today, we confirm that the future of BiH lies in the EU,” EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said in a Twitter post on Thursday.“This is a decision for the people of BiH. Political leaders can...
December 17, 2022
EU membership: Boost for Bosnia as Sarajevo given ‘candidate status’ to join bloc
December 17, 2022
Ukraine war: EU drone export ban, Putin visits Belarus
December 16, 2022
Twitter threatened with EU sanctions over journalists' ban
December 16, 2022
Poland's police chief hospitalized after a gift from Ukraine exploded
December 16, 2022
Five children among 10 dead in French apartment block fire
