Carbon Emission Reduction Strategies May Undermine Tropical Biodiversity Conservation, Conservationists Warn.
It seems astonishing that attempts to reduce carbon emissions could have an adverse effect on Read more…
Research recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides new evidence that ecological restoration can provide a cost effective response to environmental degradation.
The research focused on the dryland forests of Read more…
In the previous article it was stated that the world’s population should rise by another 3 billion people by the middle of the century – to 9 billion. So how are we going to feed them considering the present food shortages in many countries? Read more…
Changes in population, including aging and urbanization, could significantly affect global emissions of carbon dioxide over the next 40 years, according to a new study. Read more…
Can our choice of food affect climate change?
We are always being told that ‘we are what we eat’ and of course by and large that’s true but we are now being told that ‘what we eat is what we are going to get in the form of climate change! Read more…
Air miles are now becoming an important component in the determination of global trade and the general public are becoming more and more concerned with the effects of airliner pollution and energy use to the extent of preferring to purchase locally made or Read more…
Mega cities are now thought to replicate living organisms in that they Breathe, Consume Energy, Excrete Wastes And Pollute — It is interesting that the scientific trend of viewing the world’s biggest cities as analogous to living, breathing organisms Read more…
African cities are growing faster than anywhere else in the world. This is having a major impact, but few ecologists are studying the urban environment and effect of cities on rural areas. One of the most important ecological changes in Africa’s history is being over-looked. Read more…
The progressive degradation of useful soils for agriculture and farm animal husbandry is a growing environmental and social problem, given that it endangers the food safety of an increasing world population. This fact prompted the Basque Institute Read more…
Most readers will be aware that a recent report commissioned and funded by the UK Food Standards Agency has found that organic food is not nutritionally better than conventionally-produced food. The study was a review of literature pertaining to the subject Read more…
Do They Work? What are these markets?
Ecological restoration is an activity that ideally results in the return of an ecosystem to an undisturbed state. Ecosystem services are the benefits humans derive from ecosystems. Read more…
Coral reefs May Survive Global Warming. Leading Experts say that more than half of the world’s coral reefs could disappear in the next 50 years, in large part because of higher ocean temperatures caused by climate change. But now Stanford University (USA) scientists Read more…
Most polluted or damaged ecosystems worldwide can recover within a lifetime if societies commit to their cleanup or restoration, according to an analysis of 240 independent studies by researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Read more…
European biodiversity loss ‘as serious’ as climate change, European environment commissioner warns. Most of Europe’s species and habitats are in poor condition and the risk of extinction continues to rise, environment chiefs warned at a major biodiversity Read more…
Icebergs, until now a powerful symbol of the damage caused by global warming, seem to have decided to save the world from this threat instead. A team of UK scientists aboard the Royal Navy’s HMS Endurance (RN Antarctic Ice Patrol Ship and class 1A1 ice breaker, Read more…
