Does climate change increase the risk of violent armed conflict? A new paper published last week on 12 June in Nature suggests intensified global warming could indeed increase the future
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Plant extinctions are occurring at an alarming rate, according to a comprehensive global survey
According to a new study published on 10 June in Nature Ecology & Evolution, nearly 600 plant species have become extinct over the past two and a half centuries (1).
The number of honey bee colonies in Europe fell by an average of 16 per cent over the winter 2017–18, according to findings published on last month on 30 May
To date, the impacts of climate change on health have been relatively neglected in EU policy. Now, a landmark study by the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) has raised
In a new paper published on 3 June in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Patterson and colleagues propose a novel way of potentially recycling atmospheric carbon dioxide
Climate change may already be reducing crop yields of some of the world’s most important crops and food-insecure countries are being affected the most, according to a new study published
Carbon dioxide (CO2) could be a better hydraulic fracturing fluid than water, according to a new paper published on 30 May in the peer-reviewed journal Joule (1). And could pave
High-profile changes in the political environment seem to be reducing the overall number of illegally killed elephants in Africa seems to be falling, according to the authors of a new
In a new paper published on 28 May in Advanced Materials, the authors report a novel water purification device inspired by a rose (1). The solar-steaming system is made from
A new paper published earlier this month on 15 May in Science Advances demonstrates the potential cascade of co-extinction in networks of plant species and pollinators in Europe (1). The