A team of sustainability scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amhersthave announced in the journal PLOS ONE that they have developed a community-based framework, founded on extensive local and traditional knowledge, ...
Ecology
Dec 6, 2023
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When asked to draw their local wildlife, 401 UK schoolchildren aged seven to 11 most commonly drew mammals and birds, while amphibians and reptiles appeared in the fewest drawings, suggesting imbalances in children's ecological ...
Social Sciences
Jul 5, 2023
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It's a grim and all too common sight for rangers at some of Africa's nature reserves: the bullet-riddled carcass of an elephant, its tusks removed by poachers. African elephant populations have fallen by about 30% since 2006. ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2023
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Trees store carbon, filter the air, create habitat, and supply a host of other benefits for animals and people. Planting the right trees, in the right places, in consultation with local communities, can support goals like ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 6, 2022
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EPFL scientists just published an open tool for predicting the dynamics of ground beetle populations—important bioindicators for sustainable park management and for monitoring ecosystems—in Italy's Gran Paradiso National ...
Ecology
Jun 3, 2020
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Impacts from climate change are not always easy to see. But for many local businesses in coastal communities across the United States, the evidence is right outside their doors—or in their parking lots.
Environment
Feb 15, 2019
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Great apes, human's closest living relatives, are knocking on the door of extinction.
Plants & Animals
Feb 29, 2024
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A typical British countryside walk may conjure up images of vast green fields, heather-topped moorlands, and of course, countless stiles providing access throughout the right-of-way network. However, while stiles connect ...
Environment
Jan 30, 2024
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A unique experiment that began in Aberdeen during the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how the humble moss could be used by citizen scientists to monitor air pollution levels in urban environments worldwide.
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2024
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Perched atop a metal ladder, Athanassia Pistola helps her husband nail the roof of a temporary pen for their farm animals that survived a gigantic fire that ravaged northeastern Greece in August.
Environment
Nov 3, 2023
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