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Hello and welcome back to our weekly climate newsletter. Pioneering chimpanzee expert and conservationist Dame Jane Goodall died this week at age 91. The beloved primatologist and tireless environmental advocate championed chimpanzee protection for more than six decades and revolutionized the world's understanding of animal behavior. Goodall, the author of numerous books on chimps and conservation, was the subject of more than 40 films and documentaries. She also established the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977, and founded an environmental and humanitarian youth action program called Roots & Shoots in 1991. An inspirational role model for young women in science, Goodall was designated a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 2002. Earlier this year, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the highest civilian award given in the United States — by former President Joe Biden. Goodall was also recognized on The Independent's Climate 100 list of environmental pioneers on both its inaugural edition in 2024 and again just last month for the 2025 list. Speaking at Climate Week in New York City last month, she had a strong message for business leaders. "If they really feel that it's important to do the right thing, they need to have courage," Goodall told the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders Summit. "This particular time we're living through, there's too much lack of courage out there. Read more |
Jane Goodall sits with baby chimpanzee Zakayo at a rescue center in Entebbe, Uganda |
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From The Last of Us to The Thing, blockbuster movies and TV shows have been trying to warn the world not to dig into ancient ice, open the cursed Mummy's tomb, or recreate dinosaurs, for decades. And yet, geologists and biologists at the University of Colorado Boulder said Thursday they've begun resurrecting ancient microbes that had been trapped in Arctic ice for as many as 40,000 years. "These are not dead samples by any means," Tristan Caro, a former graduate student in geological sciences at the university, said in a statement. Read More |
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