Almost half of all life on Earth is “declining towards extinction… putting human wellbeing under increasing threat”, a grim new report from Queen’s University Belfast has found. The work was led by PhD student Catherine Finn and Dr Daniel Pincheira-Donoso from Queen’s School of Biological Sciences alongside Dr Florencia Grattarola from the Czech University of […]
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Namibia’s Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform Calle Schlettwein on Friday called for intensified collaboration among sectors to ensure sustainable water supply and safeguard the country’s freshwater resources. Speaking at the commemoration of World Water Day, which falls on March 22, Schlettwein highlighted the growing challenge faced by Namibia in managing freshwater resources sustainably […]
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Vietnam aims to shift the coffee industry towards more sustainable growth, so that it would ensure stable production and increase export revenue, Vietnam News Agency reported on Sunday. Government officials and industry executives at the 2023 Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival, held in the central highland province of Dak Lak this week, said Vietnam’s coffee […]
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There is barely a sector in the world untouched by the need to reduce CO2 emissions in order to help the global community meet its Paris Accord agreements by 2050. Transport has a major role to play in this goal. According to the International Energy Agency, the transport sector as a whole contributes a staggering 37 […]
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Deep in the Canadian Arctic, you can find a 51-square-kilometer (20-square-mile) pileup of fallen trees and ancient wood. Scientists have recently mapped this woody pile-up – the largest “logjam” in the world – and believe it’s likely to be having a massively underappreciated impact on the planet’s carbon cycle. The pile-up is located in the […]
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Permafrost is the understructure of the Arctic, but it’s thawing at a drastic pace, putting infrastructure and landscape in peril. Researchers wanted to ascertain how rising temperatures and thawing permafrost are affecting the movement of the Arctic’s large rivers. A new study published in Nature Climate Change found that such rivers’ channel migration is actually decreasing. Rivers across Alaska and Canada’s Yukon and […]
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Native bees in the Oregon Coast Range are diverse and abundant in clearcut areas within a few years of timber harvest but their numbers drop sharply as planted trees grow and the forest canopy closes, research by Oregon State University shows. The findings are important for understanding the roles forest management might play in the […]
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According to research released on Thursday, protected Indigenous reservations in the Amazon rainforest absorb thousands of tons of airborne pollutants each year, saving almost $2 billion in healthcare expenditures for treating respiratory and cardiovascular problems. The ten-year study examined the health effects of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon, which emit massive amounts of airborne […]
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Can a plant remember? This may sound more like a line from a poem than a scientific enquiry. But new analysis suggests that plants can pass on climate adaptation tips to their offspring. From devastating floods to rising temperatures, the climate crisis is changing natural habitats all over the world. To survive, many plants have been forced to quickly adapt, […]
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‘Bees are sentient’: inside the stunning brains of nature’s hardest workers ‘Fringe’ research suggests the insects that are essential to agriculture have emotions, dreams and even PTSD, raising complex ethical questions When Stephen Buchmann finds a wayward bee on a window inside his Tucson, Arizona, home, he goes to great lengths to capture and release […]
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