In urban planning, competing interests—such as creating more space for housing while preserving biodiversity—often have to be reconciled. How this could be better achieved in the future was investigated by an international ...
Environment
Nov 13, 2024
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Considered one of the fastest-growing agricultural frontiers in Brazil, and the area with the highest greenhouse gas emissions in the Cerrado, Brazil's savanna-type biome, the region known as MATOPIBA, risks facing water ...
Environment
Nov 5, 2024
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Using long-term monitoring data from 46 German lakes, researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in cooperation with the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Magdeburg ...
Ecology
Aug 19, 2024
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AIMS scientists have partnered with Indigenous communities in the remote Kimberley region of Australia's northwest to monitor culturally important fish populations on coral reefs and incorporate the variability in data to ...
Plants & Animals
May 31, 2024
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In the last several decades, large forest fires have increasingly threatened communities across the Mediterranean. Climate change is expected to make these fires larger, hotter, and more dangerous in the future. But fire ...
Environment
Apr 26, 2024
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When rivers began catching on fire, the U.S. government knew it was time to act. So Congress passed the Clean Water Act of 1972.
Environment
Nov 2, 2023
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Areas in Vancouver with the greatest need for restorative nature often have the least exposure to it, according to a new UBC study published recently in Ambio. These neighborhoods include Strathcona, downtown Vancouver, the ...
Environment
Sep 14, 2023
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Many landscapes in the tropics consist of a mosaic of different types of land use. How people make use of these different ecosystems, with their particular plant communities, was unclear until now. Researchers, many of them ...
Ecology
Jul 14, 2023
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Climate change is often framed as a scientific problem that requires technical solutions, but Indigenous activists and other leaders have long called for it to be recognized as a social crisis, too. Past and current fossil ...
Environment
Jun 23, 2023
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Lead is a toxic metal that negatively affects body systems of people and animals, with the nervous system being particularly sensitive. Although elevated levels of dietary lead are potentially damaging to animal health, lead ...
Veterinary medicine
May 2, 2023
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