Volunteer activities fully start in quake-hit Kumamoto
HIKAWA, KUMAMOTO PREF. – Volunteers have fully started their activities in Kumamoto Prefecture, which was hit hard by…
Jeff Bezos Harshly Criticized for $200 Million Pledge to Protect the World’s Most Endangered Species
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and his actor buddy Leonardo DiCaprio are catching some heavy flak recently, but for…
Hydraulic traits govern opposing range shifts of montane trees under warming
Sayre, R. et al. A new high-resolution map of world mountains and an online tool for visualizing and…
Climate crisis: The everyday Aussies who can’t afford another flood, drought or fire disaster
Scene one: Bayden Bedwell feels trapped. In the raging October 2022 flood that swept through Greater Shepparton, the…
Researchers mapped more than 100 lakes across 1,000 kilometres of Brazil and Uruguay; the network could detect ecosystem stress before irreversible damage
Published in the journal One Ecosystem, the research provides the first systematic assessment of the Southern American Coastal…
As Canada deports 3,323 Indians in just 6 months, are old strains in ties to blame?
Indians have emerged as the largest nationality group being removed from Canada this year, with 3,323 people deported…
Landholders still rebuilding 12 months after deepest snowfall in ‘living memory’
When New South Wales Northern Tablelands residents woke up to a snowfall last August, they couldn’t have imagined…
Plastics contamination an ‘overlooked’ concern in food waste schemes, experts say | Food waste
Plastic contamination should be a central concern in efforts to deal with food waste, which campaigners call one…
The Mediterranean’s own odyssey: An ecological treasure feels the strain
Since Homer’s day, the Mediterranean has been much more than a beautiful body of water, where Odysseus journeyed…
Underground counters lose track of who’s visiting nature
The Department of Conservation’s (DOC) systems for counting visitors and activities at 700 sites on public conservation land…
Deen Maar Island fur seal population plummets as pollution affects pups
A remote island off Victoria’s south-west coast, Deen Maar, was once home to Australia’s largest fur seal colony.…
It’s about the size of Spain, stretches 800km – and protects the planet from a whopping 5 metres of rising sea levels
Ice shelves are large platforms of glacial ice floating on the ocean, fed by glaciers. They are found…