Climate change can manifest in different ways: stronger tropical droughts, extreme droughts, warmer climates and highly unpredictable rainfall patterns. All these endanger the availability of food, which in turn could increase ...
Environment
Nov 29, 2022
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Dr. Ma Qun from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his collaborators have investigated the spatial pattern of belowground bud banks along grasslands of northern China. The study was published ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 25, 2022
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Plastic pollution is overwhelming landfills, littering Earth's coastlines, and affecting the health of animals, including humans, while also contributing to environmental degradation and climate change.
Environment
Nov 18, 2022
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Eclipsed by energy sources such as gas and electricity, charcoal is often left out of contemporary discussions about the global energy transition. It's a resource that some manufacturing processes, such as steel and silicon ...
Environment
Nov 17, 2022
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Today is the Day of Eight Billion, according to the United Nations.
Environment
Nov 15, 2022
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Growing native bushfoods could reverse environmental degradation and offer better food security. But how do we get bushfoods in the agricultural sector in a market saturated by modern crops?
Ecology
Nov 4, 2022
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On August 29, 2022, a research team led by Prof. Wang Xiaoxi from the China Academy for Rural Development and School of Public Affairs of Zhejiang University, and Prof. Yuan Changzheng from the School of Public Health of ...
Environment
Nov 2, 2022
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As tourists pose for selfies on the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda, factories within spitting distance of the source of the Nile dump their waste directly into Africa's longest river.
Environment
Nov 2, 2022
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In an age of industrialized farming and complex supply chains, the true environmental pressures of our global food system are often obscure and difficult to assess.
Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2022
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In the arid American West, wildfires now define summer. Recent years have seen some of the worst wildfires in recorded history. Climate change, the loss of Indigenous burning practices and a century of fire suppression are ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2022
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