Nature positive: Lots of rhetoric, little reality
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 6-May-2025 19:09 ET (6-May-2025 23:09 GMT/UTC)
Few tourism enterprises make net positive contributions to conservation, and “nature positive” terms are being used for “marketing greenwash, to delay and avoid environmental fees and regulations, and to lobby for land grabs in public protected areas”.
Professor Ralf Buckley suggests Australia has adopted “nature positive” political terminology, but in practice has failed to implement past promises to establish a new independent Environment Protection Agency.
Virginia Tech researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC created the Experimental Beverage Marketplace to study how taxes affect consumers’ purchase of soft drinks, energy drinks, and other sugary beverages.
In a study published in Ophthalmology, physicians followed 562 patients in the United States and India over a three-month period to identify risk factors that could be easily managed with early intervention.
Maria A. Woodward, M.D., an associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, answers questions about what causes microbial keratitis, symptoms and preventative measures.
Study finds a 18.5% reduction in sick leave following LEZ implementation in Greater London compared to areas in England without low emission zones.