Study to focus on pollution potential of oil and gas wastewater spread on roadways
Understanding the environmental impact of using oil and gas wastewater as a road treatment may lead to safer water resources and stricter government regulations,...
Hidden no more: First-ever global view of transshipment in commercial fishing industry
Transshipment, the transfer of goods from one boat to another, is a major pathway for illegally caught and unreported fish to enter the global...
Widely accepted vision for agriculture may be inaccurate, misleading
"Food production must double by 2050 to feed the world's growing population." This truism has been repeated so often in recent years that it...
UK Climate Deniers Take Anti-Science Message to Trump Administration at CPAC 2017
Two fringe British climate science deniers are heading to Maryland to see Donald Trump and his tea party pals this week, taking their Brexit-inflected...
Reduction of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions: Promotion or steering?
Policy interventions to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions have a variety of effects on the economy and on households. A study carried out...
Over time, nuisance flooding can cost more than extreme, infrequent events
Global climate change is being felt in many coastal communities of the United States, not always in the form of big weather disasters but...
New studies quantify the impacts of water use on diversity of fish and aquatic...
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Prides, protection and parks: Africa's protected areas can support four times as many lions
Africa's protected parks and reserves are capable of supporting three to four times as many wild lions if well funded and managed, according to...
Winners and losers: Climate change will shift vegetation
Projected global warming will likely decrease the extent of temperate drylands by a third over the remainder of the 21st century coupled with an...
Fifth of world's food lost to over-eating and waste, study finds
Almost 20 per cent of the food made available to consumers is lost through over-eating or waste, a study suggests.
The world population consumes around...
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Gorillas, rhinos, lions and more will soon become extinct without immediate action
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