Nowadays, commercial fisheries must exert twice the effort to catch the same number of fish compared to the 1950s. This has resulted in an industry that is highly motivated to
Two papers published on 5 November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have shed some new light on the dark side of hydropower. This renewable source of electricity
A collective-risk dilemma experiment published on 31 October in the journal PLoS ONE has shown that wealthier people are less likely to financially contribute to mitigating climate change. Participants of the
A new study published on 1 November in the journal Nature suggests the oceans are heating up much faster than expected (1). The study, led by Laure Resplandy, a biogeochemical
The 2018 Living Planet Report released by the WWF on 29 October has found that global wildlife populations have fallen by a massive 60 per cent since 1970, according to
A new special issue on rewilding was published on October 22 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, edited by Dr Liesbeth Bakker, an aquatic ecology researcher from the
A new paper presented on 22 October at the United European Gastroenterology Conference in Vienna has reported the initial findings of a pilot study with a small sample size, which
An updated version of the iconic report to the Club of Rome entitled “The Limits to Growth” was released on 17 October ― the 50th anniversary of the initial predictions
A new study published on 15 October in Nature Sustainability finds that adopting benchmarks similar to the fuel-efficiency standards used by the automotive industry in the production of fertilizer could
A new study published on 10 October in the journal Nature has found that sustainably feeding the world population, estimated to reach 10 billion by 2050, is achievable but only