Land tenure drives deforestation rates in Brazil, study finds
Tropical deforestation causes widespread degradation of biodiversity and carbon stocks. Researchers have now tested the relationship between land tenure and deforestation rates in Brazil....
Evidence of social relationships between chimpanzees, gorillas
Drawn from more than 20 years of observations at Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, researchers documented lasting social ties between individual...
Don’t crack: Deteriorating safety on frozen lakes in a warming world
An international team of climate and lake scientists has demonstrated that crossing frozen lakes with heavy trucks may soon be a thing of the...
Changes in marine ecosystems going undetected
Existing ways of calculating biodiversity dynamics are not very effective in detecting wholesale species community change due to the effects of ocean acidification.
Agricultural rewilding can help restore the environment and support production of high-welfare food, researchers...
Rewilding landscapes using elements of farming practice can help to restore ecosystems and produce high-welfare, high-quality food, researchers say.
When air and road travel dropped during COVID, so did air pollution levels
A new study has found that ultrafine particle concentration decreased by 48 percent during the COVID-19 state-of-emergency period, which corresponded with aircraft and road...
Process converts polyethylene bags, plastics to polymer building blocks
Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a...
Exquisitely thin membranes can slash energy spent refining crude oil into fuel and plastic
Scientists have created a new type of nanomembrane that presents a less energy intensive way to fractionate hydrocarbons from crude oil. The global production...
Observations confirm model predictions of sea-level change from Greenland melt
Rising sea levels from melting glaciers and ice sheets pose an increasing threat to coastal communities worldwide. A new analysis of high-resolution satellite observations...
Mapping Honduras’ water supply
In Tegucigalpa and surrounding areas, Hondurans often wait weeks for tap water to flow.
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The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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