Every year for the last decade, an expert team of horizon scanners, science communicators and researchers have identified the top emerging issues in global conservation. This year's team included Fauna & Flora International's ...
Environment
Dec 14, 2018
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In the "The Lorax," an entrepreneur regrets wiping out all the make-believe truffala trees by chopping them down to maximize his short-term gains. As the Dr. Seuss tale ends, the Once-ler – the man responsible for this ...
Ecology
Nov 30, 2018
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Lake ecosystems make annual environmental changes more predictable. Nature conservation should not focus on individual species but on whole food webs, because the protection of their functioning is important for the predictability ...
Ecology
Nov 28, 2018
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Restoring the United States' lands and coastal wetlands could have a much bigger role in reducing global warming than previously thought, according to the most comprehensive national assessment to date of how greenhouse gas ...
Environment
Nov 14, 2018
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A new article by a Swansea University researcher has called for a rethink on tropical marine conservation efforts, as people who previously relied on coral reefs for food and income are increasingly looking to alternative ...
Environment
Nov 6, 2018
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Even after 40 years of recovery, secondary forests remain species and carbon-poor compared to undisturbed primary forests, a new study reveals.
Environment
Oct 4, 2018
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By proving a theory that was first proposed almost 40 years ago, researchers have confirmed a new way that cells conserve energy.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 9, 2018
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Payments to protect carbon stored in forests must increase to defend against rubber plantations
Environment
Mar 2, 2018
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Four days before Christmas in 2008, a blur of brown fur scrambled along the snowy Continental Divide in Wyoming. The terrain and the conditions were brutal, food scarce. The bait a biologist placed in a wooden trap proved ...
Ecology
Jul 8, 2016
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Forty years of unrest in Afghanistan left wildlife ecologists uncertain whether one of the region's rare sub-species of red deer, the Bactrian deer (Cervus elaphus bactrianus), had survived in the country. But recently, for ...
Ecology
Jul 6, 2016
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