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COVID-19 pandemic reaffirms need to protect global biodiversity, UN official says

The COVID-19 pandemic reaffirms the urgency to protect global biodiversity, said Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Elizabeth Maruma Mrema on Thursday. In an exclusi

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Beware mega-unicorn paper valuations

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.There’s a famous old post going around Twitter this week by entrepreneur and

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Wuhan issues total ban on wildlife trade and consumption

The government of Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, issued a notice on its official website on Wednesday on the strict protection and management of wild animals, including a total ban

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The rare coral spawning filmed in Shenzhen's coastal water

00:53 A wild coral spawning was filmed for the first time in Shenzhen's Da'ao Bay, south China's Guangdong Province.The spawning coral is acropora pruinosa, which was planted by an NGO

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Wild white storks born in UK for first time in hundreds of years: UK media

White storks have hatched in Britain for the first time in about 600 years, according to the Evening Standard newspaper. The five chicks were born from one of three nests in the Knepp Estate in West

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Tibet invests over 110 mln yuan to protect cultural relics in 2019

Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region invested over 110 million yuan (about 15.5 million U.S. dollars) in safeguarding the region's cultural relics in 2019, accordi

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Is the future of WTO lingering on Washington's whim?

World Trade Organization (WTO) Director General Roberto Azevedo addresses the media in Geneva, Switzerland, July 25, 2018. /Xinhua Editor's note: Kong Qingjiang is the dean of the School of In

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Is the future of WTO lingering on Washington's whim?

World Trade Organization (WTO) Director General Roberto Azevedo addresses the media in Geneva, Switzerland, July 25, 2018. /Xinhua Editor's note: Kong Qingjiang is the dean of the School of In

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Epic Games announces Unreal Engine 5, shows off boundary-pushing PlayStation 5 demo

After 8 years of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is finally ready to talk about Unreal Engine 5, which they’re announcing will launch in preview early next year with a wider launch by the year’

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Decrypted: Contact-tracing privacy, Zoom buys Keybase, Microsoft eyes CyberX

As the world looks to reopen after weeks of lockdown, governments are turning to contact tracing to understand the spread of the deadly coronavirus.Most nations are leaning toward privacy-focused apps

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MLB owners approve plan to start season in July

Justin Verlander of the Houston Astros delivers during the first inning of the 2019 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., July 9, 2019. /VCG Major League Baseball (MLB)

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Social distancing between monkeys prevents microbe spread

Research into microbes for eight distinct social groups of monkeys in Ghana has found social distancing prevents transmissions.

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Kingsoft Cloud IPO Defies Expectation as Vroom angles for debut

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Last Friday something very odd happened: the public debut of Kingsoft Cloud, a com

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Equity Monday: Kingsoft Cloud, Shiprocket, and who wants to make a contrarian investment?

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week.Another weekend at home, another week’s starting from the same spot. How are y

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Wild panda spotted in southwest China

A wild panda was captured by an infrared camera in a natural reserve in southwest China's Sichuan Province, the reserve said Saturday. Rangers in the Bayuelin Nature R

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Science Behind The Virus: Why the novel coronavirus is not man-made

05:04 You might have heard the conspiracy theories spreading on social media about how the coronavirus started.These kinds of misinformation have been lapped up by politicians, who cla

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Chinese sturgeons: Fixing gender imbalance

00:49 In the wild, a Chinese sturgeon can lay hundreds of thousands of eggs, but only a few survive due to various reasons. The artificial propagation and release method is different.