The Richest 10% Cause up to $5.7 Trillion in Environmental Damage Each Year
A new analysis estimates that the world’s highest-consuming 10% generate trillions of dollars in environmental damage each year…
Support for climate and biodiversity policies differs across cultural worldviews in Japan
Hoegh-Guldberg, O. et al. The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5 C. Science 365, eaaw6974…
Interior Department narrows Endangered Species Act protections
PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species…
Remote sensing delivers tropical forest resilience monitoring for the Global Biodiversity Framework
Wright, S. J. The future of tropical forests. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1195, 1–27 (2010). Article Google…
China’s great green wall: Over 60 billion trees are growing faster than natural forests — here’s the secret behind that growth
If one had to pick a few things to know China by, the Great Wall of China would…
Scientists Just Found a Smiling “Happy-Face” Spider in the Himalayas
Cephalothorax of female holotype of T. himalayana sp. nov. Credit: Devi Priyadarshini and Ashirwad Tripathy For more than…
Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning
Benayas, J. M. R., Newton, A. C., Diaz, A. & Bullock, J. M. Enhancement of biodiversity and ecosystem…
Costa Rica lost nearly half its forests in just a few decades, then planted millions of trees and became one of the world’s greatest reforestation success stories |
By the 1980s, Costa Rica was facing an environmental crisis that few could have imagined just decades earlier.…
What Can Architectural Practice Learn From Botany?
Guangzhou Yunxi Botanical Garden / AECOM + Architectural Design & Research Institute of SCUT + Guangzhou Landscape Architectural…
Rare Goblin Shark Spotted Alive in Its Natural Habitat for the First Time
Goblin shark near Tonga Trench (2024). Credit: Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep-Sea Research Center and Inkfish. Scientists have…
A unified analysis of global riverine eDNA reveals common associations of fish biodiversity with drainage characteristics
Senior, R. A. et al. Global shortfalls in documented actions to conserve biodiversity. Nature 630, 387–391 (2024). Article …
Environmental damages of the top ten percent consumers exceed global climate and biodiversity funding gaps
We find that the total environmental damage costs per person in the top 10% consumers worldwide is $2.3k-$7.5k…