According to a new study published on August 13 in Nature Ecology & Evolution, tax havens may play a major role in facilitating deforestation and illegal fishing (1). A brief
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Assessing the impact of solar geoengineering: strategies to reduce global warming will not prevent crop damage
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A new study published on August 8 in Nature, a scientific journal, suggests that the positive effects of aerosols intentionally released into the atmosphere ― a form of solar geoengineering ―
A new project has just been set in motion to build a 3D map of the Ganges River, Lou Del Bello reports in Nature News & Comment on August 7.
A new study published on July 7 in Nature Communications, a scientific journal, examined the effects of long-term captivity on wild timber elephants in Myanmar (1). The study, performed by researchers
The detrimental effects of plastic on the environment are widely recognised, but a new study published on August 1 in PLoS ONE, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, now shows plastics may
‘Attribution science’ may soon be making a regular appearance in weather reports: rapid assessments of the impact of global warming
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On July 27th, Dr Friederike Otto, a climate modeller at the University of Oxford, UK and her colleagues provided a preliminary analysis of the current heatwave oppressing Northern Europe, and unusually,
On July 26th, the Swedish military dropped laser-guided bombs on a forest fire that had been raging for nearly two weeks close to the town of Älvdalen, near its border
The little spider that could: the tiny wolf spider may be helping to keep the Arctic region cooler
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A new study published on July 23rd in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1) highlights the potentially positive impact of the increasing wolf spider population (a member of
A new study has amassed and analyzed four decades of satellite data – from 1979 to 2016 – to confirm that humans are in fact altering the seasonal cycles and
At 171 million tonnes, fish production reached an all-time high in 2016, according to a new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Released on Monday, the