Essen's experiment: Can going green revive a post-industrial economy?
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The German city is working to shake off the coal dust of the industrial Ruhr, but will green tourism be profitable enough to regain...
UNEP official calls for ‘coherent planning’ as Aichi falters in Africa.
International agreements are increasingly looking at conserving forests as a way to mitigate global warming, preserve biodiversity and safeguard human communities from environmental disasters.
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Johns Hopkins students and staff map Puerto Rico remotely to get aid to victims...
Like other Puerto Ricans far from home, Alanna Farrell Colon, a Johns Hopkins University sophomore, felt helpless when Hurricane Maria hit the island.
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DNA barcoding technology helping monitor health of all-important boreal forest
The Boreal forest is essential to Canada and the world, storing carbon, purifying water and air and regulating climate. But keeping tabs on the...
Mars study yields clues to possible cradle of life
The discovery of evidence for ancient sea-floor hydrothermal deposits on Mars identifies an area on the planet that may offer clues about the origin...
Ocean pollution: Prince Charles warns humanity is ‘testing the world to destruction’ and must...
Humanity is “testing the world to destruction” and must act now to protect the oceans, British royal Prince Charles has warned. Speaking to Sky...
Deer prefer native plants leaving lasting damage on forests
When rampant white-tailed deer graze in forests, they prefer to eat native plants over certain unpalatable invasive plants, such as garlic mustard and Japanese...
Chesapeake acidification could compound issues already facing the bay, researchers find.
For ten days across recent summers, researchers aboard the University of Delaware research vessel Hugh R. Sharp collected water samples from the mouth of...
Breakthrough in direct activation of CO2 and CH4 into liquid fuels and chemicals
Researchers have made a significant breakthrough in the direct conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) into liquid fuels and chemicals which could...
Predicting insect feeding preferences after deforestation
Understanding how parasitoids and hosts interact, and how their interactions change with human influence, is critically important to understanding ecosystems. New research finds mathematical...
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