It is easy to forget that everyday office life with its business travel, conferences and meetings has a massive effect on the environment. Environmentally…
Before finding conservation solutions, the big challenge is to understand how human activities and their possible consequences, such as climate and land use…
Biodiversity is fundamental to our life, providing food, drinking water and stable habitats. But biodiversity is currently in a crisis situation: the…
As an island off the Atlantic coast of Western Europe, Ireland is an ideal laboratory from which to study the effects of climate change on the oceans, which in…
The decision was made today at the General Assembly of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and should help provide the scientific knowledge needed to…
However, a new approach to creating the fastenings and tabs for such devices based on the shape-memory effect in plastics could mean that disassembling such…
This is the conclusion reached by Japanese and German researchers following studies of very deep caldera lakes in Japan. Scientists from Hokkaido University,…
A rise in carbon emissions is not the only threat to the planet. Changes to the nitrogen cycle, caused in large part by the widespread use of fertilizers, are…
Because of the current crisis, biologists at UC Santa Barbara are working day and night to determine which species must be saved. Their international study of…
This finding, released by scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, has raised hopes for the ability of the world’s corals to…
That was one of the important questions Wolverine Power Cooperative asked Michigan Technological University professor Robert Froese and colleagues regarding…
Research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Environmental Health shows that MeHg harms T-lymphocytes, key cells in a seal’s immune system….
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) World Conservation Congress this week adopted a resolution urging nations to protect the…
Now, researchers in Algeria have discovered that nothing more sophisticated than orange peel could be used to remove acidic dyes from industrial effluent. They…
A recent study by researchers at Ohio State University and National Park Service found that higher deer activity is modifying forest ecosystems in unexpected…
Climatologist Robert DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues at four institutions are reporting in the Oct. 2 issue of the journal…
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