Credit: Oregon State University Scientists have determined for the first time that Amazon’s waterlogged coastal mangrove forests, which are being clear cut for cattle pastures and shrimp ponds, store significantly more carbon per acre than the region’s famous rainforest. The long-term study, recently published in the journal Biology Letters, provides a […]
Agriculture should be a good example of a circular economy, but modern farming practices and international markets have changed that. Credit: Hemmo/ Pixabay. Turning crop waste and discarded paper into a material called biochar could help to capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil while also […]
UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Emerging from the ice for a brief growing season every Antarctic summer, the lush green mosses of East Antarctica are finally succumbing to climate change. That is according to a study of the small, ancient and hardy plants – carried out over more than a decade. This […]
Driving conditions that don’t require frequent use of vehicle controls, but do require constant vigilance for hazards, can reduce driver alertness. Shutterstock Few people pay close attention to the traffic situation unfolding around them when they’re travelling as a passenger in a car, even if they’re in the front seat. […]
Yosemite National Park. Credit: Patrick Gonzalez Human-caused climate change has exposed U.S. national parks to conditions hotter and drier than the rest of the nation, says a new UC Berkeley and University of Wisconsin-Madison study that quantifies for the first time the magnitude of climate change on all 417 parks […]
Oslo has devised a series of highly dissuasive measures: it has eliminated 700 parking spots, re-zoned the city centre, turned streets into pedestrian walkways, and has raised the price of congestion tolls Determined to go green, Oslo is slowly but surely ridding its city centre of motorists, angering some who […]
Indonesian farmer Kawal Surbakti says a planned EU palm oil ban could devastate his income Indonesian palm oil farmer Kawal Surbakti says his livelihood is under attack, but the threat is not from insects or hungry orangutans eating his prized crop. Half a world away, the European Parliament is moving […]
At Privates Beach in the Opal Cliffs area of Santa Cruz, California, there is a $100 annual access fee and an imposing gate, even though it is supposed to be a public beach The sandy cove along California’s picturesque coast beckons visitors to what is supposed to be a public […]
The two surviving wolves on Isle Royale—pictured here in February—are to be joined this fall by wolves from Michigan and Minnesota. ROLF O. PETERSON/MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY In the next 6 weeks, the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) will airlift six wolves from the U.S. mainland to nearby Isle Royale in […]
The Nordic countries are teaming with marine forests of kelp and sea grass, which lock away CO2 and provide a refuge of high pH in an increasingly acidic ocean. But how can they really help in the fight against global warming? Credit: Shutterstock Research suggests that are many reasons to […]