New technologies to map environmental crime in the Amazon Basin (commentary)
Environmental crime slows climate action, deters investment in nature-based solutions, and undermines the green transition. Around the world, land grabbing, illegal deforestation, illicit mining,...
View ArticleBogota begins water rationing amid severe drought
Published18 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Reuters By Max MatzaBBC News About ten million residents of the Colombian capital Bogota are being forced to...
View ArticleBrightest-ever explosion's mystery of missing gold
Published24 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Aaron M. Geller By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent Researchers have discovered the cause of the brightest burst...
View ArticleBetween Brazil’s Caatinga & Cerrado, communities profit from native fruits
PORTEIRINHA, Minas Gerais — Beneath the shade of the umbu tree, Maria Neves tells Maria José that ripe umbu fruit is like a woman on the brink of giving birth: It demands immediate attention. “Umbu...
View ArticleThe car culture wars; plus, the problem with child stars
President Biden has been pushing new regulations to promote electric vehicle production to combat the climate crisis — and former president Trump is using those regulations as a talking point against...
View ArticleBonobos, the ‘hippy apes’, may not be as peaceful as once thought
Anthropologist Maud Mouginot recalls an encounter with bonobos early one morning in 2019 deep in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo that helped revise her impression of them as the...
View ArticleTraceability is no silver bullet for reducing deforestation (commentary)
The food we eat causes one third of all greenhouse gas emissions, as forests are cleared at an ever-growing rate to make way for new cattle pastures, soy fields, cocoa farms and oil palm plantations....
View ArticleConservationists welcome new PNG Protected Areas Act — but questions remain
With more than 70% of the country blanketed by tropical rainforests, Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a megadiverse country home to more than 5% of the world’s biodiversity, including charismatic tree...
View ArticleEngineers in Oregon train dog robot to walk on Moon
The multidisciplinary team has a two-year $2 million grant to help Nasa study the asteroid’s surface. The LASSIE (Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments) Project is formed by...
View ArticleWhat biologists see from the shores of the drying Great Salt Lake
Half of the Great Salt Lake in Utah has now dried up but scientists say there’s still some time left to reverse its decline. The post What biologists see from the shores of the drying Great Salt Lake...
View ArticleFaced with an extreme future, one Colombian island struggles to rebuild
No one on the Colombian island of Providencia was prepared for what happened on the night of Nov. 16, 2020. Not even Josefina Huffington, who had survived four hurricanes. That evening, as she waited...
View ArticleWorld's coral turns white from deadly ocean heat
Coral bleaching: Fourth global mass stress episode underway – US scientistsPublished1 hour ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing This video can not be played To play this video you need...
View ArticleOn the trail of Borneo’s bay cat, one of the world’s most mysterious felines
There is a photograph of the bay cat I can’t get out of my head. In it, the cat looks intensely right at the viewer, its sun-yellow eyes sporting two dark lines running up from them as if someone had...
View ArticleIt will take 880 years to achieve UN ocean conservation goals, at this rate...
The ninth Our Ocean conference takes place this week in Athens, Greece. It is the largest and highest profile conference of its kind, and attracts presidents and celebrities, who all try to outdo one...
View ArticleRapid growth of Bolivia’s lithium industry creating new problems for local...
Bolivia is racing to attract foreign investment in its massive, untapped lithium reserves, with plans to expand operations and build new processing plants. But residents living near the lithium...
View ArticleClimate change could drive mammal extinction in Brazil’s Caatinga, study warns
Even if everything goes well and the targets set by the Paris Agreement are met, average temperatures are expected to rise by 2.7° Celsius (4.86° Fahrenheit) this century, according to the United...
View ArticleNasa: 'New plan needed to return rocks from Mars'
Published47 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, NASA By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmos The quest to return rock samples from Mars to Earth to see if...
View ArticleResearchers have been trying to breed fungus-resistant chestnut trees for 100...
We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that’s been killing the iconic American tree for more than a century. The post Researchers...
View ArticleLightning and rain kill dozens in Pakistan
Published55 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, EPA By Kelly NgBBC News At least 39 people have been killed in Pakistan after days of unusually heavy rains...
View ArticleGlobal coral beaching now underway looks set to be largest on record
ATHENS — The world is currently undergoing its fourth global bleaching event, with coral bleaching occurring in the territorial waters of more than 50 countries, according to scientists at the National...
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