December 2, 2023
‘Killing’ Trees: How True Environmental Protection Requires a Revolution in How We Talk About, and With, Our Forests
December 2, 2023
It Has No Predator and Spreads Quickly. Meet the Organism Causing Alarm in San Diego Bay
December 1, 2023
Even Low Levels of Artificial Light Disrupt Ecosystems
The carbon budget remaining to limit the climate crisis to 1.5C of global heating is now “tiny”, according to an analysis, sending a “dire” message about the adequacy of climate action. The carbon budget is the maximum amount of carbon emissions that can be released while restricting global temperature rise to the limits of the Paris agreement. […]
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Ring the Alarm Scientists are again ringing alarm bells over climate change’s devastating effects on the planet — and this time, they’re saying the Earth’s rapidly changing environment may result in a global disaster of epic proportions by the end of the century. A new paper published in the journal BioScience has been co-signed by more than 15,000 scientists in 161 countries, and […]
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San Francisco venture firm Fifty Years is launching a new grant-making initiative to fund scientists working to translate their research into products that can curb climate change, or help people adapt to and survive it. The initiative was inspired by one of the firm’s portfolio companies, a sustainable chemicals startup called Solugen, according to Fifty Years’ Special […]
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The Arctic is getting wetter. For a long time scientists could identify no trends in the amount of snow, rain and freezing rain across the region, but that’s now changed. A University of Alaska Fairbanks-led investigation has found statistically significant increases in precipitation on the order of 10% to 15% since 1950. It’s getting wetter […]
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Nature-based solutions to fight climate change take a holistic approach that promotes biodiversity and ecosystem preservation. While many efforts have focused on planting trees or restoring wetlands, researchers publishing in Trends in Ecology and Evolution on December 15 advocate for the importance of understanding the carbon sequestration potential of the planet’s largest animals — whales. […]
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Scientists have discovered an alerce tree in southern Chile in an ancient forest that could be over 600 years older than the so far oldest known living tree.
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