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Scientists learn to listen when it comes to assessing rainforest health
In the fight to protect the extraordinary biodiversity of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests, some conservationists are collecting a unique set of data: the sounds of the forest. Scientists with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Princeton University are using acoustic sampling recorders in the Read More...
France wants to fight climate change by increasing carbon levels in soil
Scientists are searching high and low for ways to reduce the amount of carbon in the air to halt the onset of climate change. The French believe the answer lies in the soil beneath our feet. The carbon cycle is a fundamental part of life on earth. Soil has the natural ability to store more carbon Read More...
Farming for the Future
Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser are not your typical farmers. They turned their plot of land into an unusual field experiment, leading to much higher yields and much higher earnings. What are their secrets? One afternoon in March, on Singing Frogs Farm, a small vegetable operation that Paul and Read More...
Climate change will bring greater biodiversity to world seas
Tropical marine animals that currently thrive in warm habitats around the equator will have to spread north and south to avoid extinction as global sea temperatures rise, a study has found. Scientists at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), alongside international partners, modelled Read More...
Costa Rica is planning to shut down all its zoos and free its captive animals
There are many reason to love Costa Rica. The tiny Central American country is considered a biodiversity hot spot; it has no army it transitions to green energy faster than the Germans do; and now, they're shutting down all of its zoos. Yup, Costa Rica is becoming the first country to implement a Read More...
Europe to discuss deep-sea trawling ban to protect biodiversity
After fishing of the orange roughy, a deepwater fish, started, populations collapsed within 15 years (Image: Kim Westerskov/Getty) In an autumnal ritual as unvarying as migrating geese, European Union officials head back to Brussels next week – to fight over fish. But this time they might Read More...
Insects can contribute to food security
Insects are going to have a major contribution to food and feed security says Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan, senior fellow at Bengaluru based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE). Insects comprise at least 85% of biodiversity and play the most important roles in the Read More...
Organic farming beneficial to biodiversity, study finds
The need to meet the food demand of a growing global population runs into one major self-defeating cycle: intensive conventional agriculture damages biodiversity—what with chemicals and monocrops destroying plants diversity and wildlife habitats. Eventually, reduced biodiversity jeopardizes Read More...
Agroecology, the science for food security on a warming planet
UN Special Rapporteur for Food Olivier De Schutter first put agroecology in the public eye with his 2011 groundbreaking report on Agroecology and the Right to Food. Defined as "the integrative study and practice of the ecology of the entire food system, encompassing ecological, economic and social Read More...
Seed bank devoted to cultivated biodiversity in dry areas saved from destruction in Syria
Wars destroy lives, communities, cultural artifacts, historical heritage and biodiversity. For the second time in less than a century, individuals committed to preserving cultivated biodiversity have displayed heroic courage to save a seed bank from the ravages of war. The International Center Read More...