The most extensive land-based study of the Amazon to date reveals it is losing its capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere From a peak of two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide each year... Read more
The human impact on the Amazon rainforest has been grossly underestimated according to an international team of researchers led by Lancaster University. They found that selective logging and... Read more
One of the world’s major producers of food needs to adapt its farming practices for climate change Higher temperatures, drastic changes in rainfall, lower productivity, more blight and... Read more
The accelerating disappearance of Earth’s species of both wild and domesticated plants and animals constitutes a fundamental threat to the well-being and even the survival of humankind... Read more
The large-scale expansion of agriculture in the Amazon through deforestation will be a no-win scenario, according to a new study. Published today, 10 May, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environ... Read more
The large-scale expansion of agriculture in the Amazon through deforestation will be a no-win scenario, according to a new study. Published today, 10 May, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environ... Read more
Many roads are causing irreparable damage to nature but properly planned roads could actually help the environment Two leading ecologists say a rapid proliferation of roads across the planet... Read more
An international team has found that a troubling net loss in diversity among the microbial organisms responsible for a functioning ecosystem is accompanying deforestation in the Amazon rainf... Read more
Drilling for Oil in Eden Quito, Ecuador— The most biologically diverse habitat in the western hemisphere, the Yasuní rainforest in Ecuador, is under threat. The diversity of species in the Y... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Here’s an idea to cool Earth: make marine clouds into better reflectors of sunlight. After all, clouds already reflect more of the sun’s radiation back into s... Read more