Can we predict political uprisings?
Forecasting political unrest is a challenging task, especially in this era of post-truth and opinion polls.
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Towards a liveable future
Humans have influenced nature since as early as the Ice Age, and over the past century man's impact has become even greater with our many new technologies and a growing world population. Leiden researchers study this impact ...
Empowerment of women worldwide key to achieving competing goals of food sufficiency and biodiversity protection
Is feeding the world's human population compatible with protecting the biological diversity of the planet?
Bacteria sleep, then rapidly evolve, to survive antibiotic treatments
Antibiotic resistance is a major and growing problem worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels in all parts of the world, and new resistance mechanisms ...
Sustainable Development Goals lead to lower population growth
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the UN in 2015 for the period up to 2030 would lead to a global population of between 8.2 to 8.7 billion by 2100, according to a new study from the International Institute ...
Spoon-billed sandpiper population revealed
For the first time, scientists have calculated the world population of the spoon-billed sandpiper, after overcoming a number of difficult challenges including limited knowledge about the whereabouts of this tiny shorebird, ...
What does your poop say about your evolution?
What does the bacteria in animal guts have to do with ecology? It turns out quite a bit more than you might expect. What does your poop say about your evolution? Is the microbiome the next big thing in ecology?
Close all tiger farms, WWF tells Asian states
The World Wildlife Fund on Thursday called on Asian states to close their tiger farms to boost efforts against the black-market trade in animal parts.
Is fish poo the key to feeding the world's growing population?
Feeding a growing world population is one of the greatest challenges society faces – and fish poo could be the answer, according to a group of students at the University of Sheffield.
Elephants in Tanzania reserve could be wiped out by 2022
Elephants in Tanzania's sprawling Selous Game Reserve could be wiped out within six years if poaching continues at current levels, the World Wildlife Fund warned.
