The "Nature Restoration Law" (NRL) requires member states of the EU to implement restoration measures on at least 20 percent of land and marine areas by 2030 and in all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050. This includes ...
Ecology
Dec 14, 2023
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Likening it to providing more runways at busy airports, researchers at North Carolina State University found in a new study that adding protruding rocks to restored streams can help attract female aquatic insects that lay ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2023
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With wellies and waterproof clothing, Claudia Nielsen spent time splodging through the Bois-des-Bel peatlands earlier this year. The peatlands, located in Quebec, Canada, had been restored, with conservations working on them ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2023
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Protecting and restoring forests is one of the cheapest and most effective options for mitigating the carbon emissions heating Earth.
Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2023
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Biodiversity continues to decline globally, but nowhere is the loss more pronounced than in Aotearoa New Zealand, which has the highest proportion of threatened indigenous species in the world.
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2023
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"Don't blame the mangroves," is a key take-away of an international collaboration looking into vegetation removal, sedimentation, and coastal restoration. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows coastal restoration ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2023
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Scientists from the Department of Biological Science at Florida State University have described and named a new species of coral in the waters of French Polynesia.
Ecology
Nov 13, 2023
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Research results published in the journal, Nature, show that realistic global forest carbon potential is approximately 226 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon. The study, which involved hundreds of scientists around the world, highlights ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2023
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In April 2021, four Michigan State University plant scientists met at an undisclosed area on campus to dig up a bottle containing seeds buried more than 144 years ago by MSU botanist William J. Beal.
Plants & Animals
Nov 7, 2023
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Re-establishing plantings of trees, grasses and other vegetation is essential for restoring degraded ecosystems, but a new survey of almost 2,600 restoration projects from nearly every type of ecosystem on Earth finds that ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2023
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