Top news of the week: 30.12.2021.
Sustainability
Tom Lovejoy, prominent conservation biologist, dies at 80
Thomas E. Lovejoy III, a prominent and influential conservation biologist who helped catalyze a global movement to save the Amazon rainforest and served as an advisor to a wide range of ...
See How The Soybean Industry Is Adopting Precision Agriculture
More than half a million US soybeanfarmers are adopting digital transformation tools such as drones and artificial intelligence to manage their crops.
Remembering Explorer at Large Dr. Thomas Lovejoy
The National Geographic Society is deeply saddened by the passing of National Geographic Explorer at Large and renowned conservation biologist Dr. Thomas Lovejoy.
Thomas Lovejoy, renowned biologist who coined ‘biological diversity,’ dies at 80
The National Geographic Explorer at Large also published the first estimate of global extinction rates.
Roche COVID-19 At-Home Test granted FDA Emergency Use Authorization to expand access to rapid self-testing solutions in the United States
EUA granted through Roche’s participation in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Independent Test Assessment Program to bring rapid …
EU in row over inclusion of gas and nuclear in sustainability guidance
Activists including Greta Thunberg criticise ‘fake climate action’ in response to planned investment taxonomy
Digital Access Is Not Universal, but a 10-Year Plan Can Help
Prioritizing infrastructure, smarter regulations and better training will make digital technology more inclusive
In this pivotal year, rich nations failed woefully on climate justice
Rich nations largely created the climate crisis, but poorer nations are feeling the brunt of it. The lack of action on this injustice at COP26 was a historic failure, writes Graham Lawton