Brazil is one of the countries most exposed to climate breakdown and the one with the most power to slow it. Its failure to act on either front is becoming an economic and political emergency.
How a Community Defended Its Ancestral Forest From Logging
Their biocultural map revealed a long history of occupation that colonial records and modern conservation maps had largely overlooked.
Their biocultural map revealed a long history of occupation that colonial records and modern conservation maps had largely overlooked.
Study Finds Livestock Pushing Lions Away From Shared Rangeland in Kenya
Researchers suggest lions are responding not just to immediate encounters with herders but to past grazing pressure and perceived long-term risk.
Researchers suggest lions are responding not just to immediate encounters with herders but to past grazing pressure and perceived long-term risk.
Why Saving Seagrass Meadows Could Help Save the World’s Coastlines
Experts point out that seagrass brings multiple other benefits, such as improving water quality that helps the marine environment, including coral reefs.
Experts point out that seagrass brings multiple other benefits, such as improving water quality that helps the marine environment, including coral reefs.
If Florida Reefs Aren’t Protected, Storms Will Increase Flooding & Costs: Study
The study finds that future coral reef degradation will increase the annual risk of flooding to people by 42% and to buildings by 47%.
The study finds that future coral reef degradation will increase the annual risk of flooding to people by 42% and to buildings by 47%.
Indonesia’s Orangutan Trafficking Cases Reveal Need for a Change in Approach (Commentary)
Seizures of trafficked orangutans have been in the news often lately, and the nation needs to make trafficking of animals such as these unprofitable, unviable and socially unacceptable.
Seizures of trafficked orangutans have been in the news often lately, and the nation needs to make trafficking of animals such as these unprofitable, unviable and socially unacceptable.
Plastic, from Home and Abroad, Spills Into Türkiye’s Waters
The resulting pollution is taking a toll on riverine and marine ecosystems, including important sea turtle nesting sites.
The resulting pollution is taking a toll on riverine and marine ecosystems, including important sea turtle nesting sites.
Thai Data Center Boom Sparks Fears of Water Shortage, Air Pollution
Residents and farmers in Chonburi and Rayong provinces say they fear the facilities will intensify water shortages and pollution in a region already struggling with industrial impacts.
Residents and farmers in Chonburi and Rayong provinces say they fear the facilities will intensify water shortages and pollution in a region already struggling with industrial impacts.
How Elephants Experience Time and What This Tells Us About Protecting Them
“How we envision an animal’s relationship to time influences whether we see them as feeling, remembering beings. My aim is to encourage a more dynamic view of their place in the world when we recognize them as equally temporal beings.”
“How we envision an animal’s relationship to time influences whether we see them as feeling, remembering beings. My aim is to encourage a more dynamic view of their place in the world when we recognize them as equally temporal beings.”
Promising Breakthrough Creates Plastics That Self Deconstruct on Cue: Study
Inspired by the natural, timely breakdown of organic materials like proteins and DNA, chemists at Rutgers University in the U.S. have now modified existing plastics so that they can be programmed to break down into their molecular components at the end of a specific period of time, or in response to a trigger, such as sunlight.
Inspired by the natural, timely breakdown of organic materials like proteins and DNA, chemists at Rutgers University in the U.S. have now modified existing plastics so that they can be programmed to break down into their molecular components at the end of a specific period of time, or in response to a trigger, such as sunlight.
Can Singapore Rewild Its Lost Reptiles?
Snakes and lizards show a two-stage pattern of decline tied first to plantation-era deforestation and later to rapid urbanization, with forest specialists hardest hit while adaptable species persist in degraded habitats.
Snakes and lizards show a two-stage pattern of decline tied first to plantation-era deforestation and later to rapid urbanization, with forest specialists hardest hit while adaptable species persist in degraded habitats.
Study Maps Tree-Planting Risks and Rewards for Climate and Biodiversity
Forestation can be a benefit for biodiversity, but poorly planned projects can do more harm than good.
Forestation can be a benefit for biodiversity, but poorly planned projects can do more harm than good.
U.S.’ Hunger for Halloween Trinkets Is Killing Vietnam’s Painted Woolly Bats
Vendors told researchers that most of the painted woolly bats they sold were pulled from the wild. Evidence suggests these mammals have almost disappeared from the country’s Mekong Delta region, partly because of this intensive trade.
Vendors told researchers that most of the painted woolly bats they sold were pulled from the wild. Evidence suggests these mammals have almost disappeared from the country’s Mekong Delta region, partly because of this intensive trade.
Precision Conservation: The Rise of Place-Specific Strategies Where Protection Works Best
Implementing such precision at scale faces significant constraints, including uneven data availability, measurement error, complex ecological interactions, and social and political realities that influence where projects can occur.
Implementing such precision at scale faces significant constraints, including uneven data availability, measurement error, complex ecological interactions, and social and political realities that influence where projects can occur.
Restoration of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest May Hinge on Market for Native Plants
Reforestation efforts provide varying environmental, economic and societal values, also known as bioeconomics.
Reforestation efforts provide varying environmental, economic and societal values, also known as bioeconomics.
Nations Not on Track to Meet UN 2030 Pesticide Risk Reduction Targets: Study
To determine global pesticide risk, researchers used data on pesticide use from 2013 to 2019 in 65 countries, along with data on the toxicity of 625 pesticides as related to eight different species groups.
To determine global pesticide risk, researchers used data on pesticide use from 2013 to 2019 in 65 countries, along with data on the toxicity of 625 pesticides as related to eight different species groups.