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
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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
Human activity has caused oxygen levels in the Baltic Sea to drop to the lowest point in 1500 years, according to a study published on Thursday by researchers in Germany
If the 2°C warming limit set by the Paris Agreement is exceeded, flooding from rising sea levels could cost the global economy $14 trillion every year by 2100, a new
Despite European Union laws to protect water supplies, biodiversity and human health, a majority of Europe’s freshwater bodies fail to meet ecological and pollution standards, according to a report published