Mapping functional diversity of forests with remote sensing
Productivity and stability of forest ecosystems strongly depend on the functional diversity of plant communities. Researchers have developed a new method to measure and...
High-efficiency building bloopers revealed
Many researchers know that new high-efficiency buildings don't typically get used as intended. The numbers don't add up, and occupants can easily waste energy...
How to manage forest pests in the Anthropocene? Bring theory
A survivor's guide to why forests around the world are being impacted by invasive pests and what can be done about it in an...
Exposure to benzene during pregnancy: a pilot study raises concerns in British Columbia
New research reveals that 29 pregnant women living near natural-gas hydraulic fracturing sites had a median concentration of a benzene biomarker in their urine...
Canada, U.K. team up in push to end coal-power use.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and her British counterpart, Claire Perry, will launch an international alliance to phase out coal-fired electricity at the Bonn climate...
This “climate beneficial” wool hat comes from carbon-positive sheep.
At the southern end of the Surprise Valley on the border of California and Nevada, Bare Ranch looks essentially like it did in the...
Carbon emissions had leveled off. Now they're rising again.
For a while it looked as if the world might be turning the corner.
But after a three-year stall in their growth, human-caused carbon-dioxide emissions...
No one satisfied with new Vermont wind power sound rules.
An effort by Vermont utility regulators to settle the long-standing, contentious issue of how much noise neighbors of industrial wind projects should be subject...
The allure and perils of hydropower.
Estimated reading time: 26 minOn an early spring evening in southwestern Albania, Taulant Hazizaj walks between silver-gray olive trees near the Vjosa River. Farms...
Solomon Islands churches preach climate action.
"The churches are taking (climate change) on; they are accepting it"By Catherine Wilson
HONIARA, Solomon Islands, Nov 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the Solomon...