by Admin | May 10, 2019 | Conservation, Sustainability
You might not know it, but birds—and especially tropical birds—have “comfort zones,” too. And members of the same bird species can have drastically different responses to deforestation depending on how close to their comfort zone they live. According to research from...
by Admin | May 6, 2019 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
You’ve probably already heard the news: A UN assessment has shown the full price of humans’ impact on biodiversity and nature, and the news is not good. A full one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. The BBC has a particularly good...
by Admin | Apr 4, 2019 | Conservation
New research shows that environmental stressors caused by human activity are harming coastal green turtle populations. Heavy metals in particular are causing problems. The research results, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, were compiled by a...
by Admin | Feb 27, 2019 | Climate Change, Conservation
“Raise your voice, not the seal level!” read one sign seen on the train in Amsterdam, in the hands of a student on her way to The Hague, for a massive demonstration regarding climate change. Between 10,000 and 20,000 students turned out on February 7, 2019, at the...
by Admin | Jan 23, 2019 | Conservation
According to a group of researchers from 13 universities in three countries, the potential for large countries to contribute to environmental protection is being overlooked. The researchers looked at the leverage an individual country can have when it comes to...
by Admin | Jan 17, 2019 | Conservation
Verreaux’s Sifaka, a threatened species on the IUCN’s Red List of Endangered Species. Photo credit: Shutterstock There are currently over 26,500 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. To put that...
