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We’re watching a ‘horror story’ in which the casualty is Earth’s wilderness
Only 23% of the world can now be considered wilderness.
Rising seas might mean more coral reef islands — if we don’t murder all the corals
We might get more ‘exotic’ if we dial down on the ‘extinction’.
Widespread coral species shows unique adaptations against environmental changes
Pocillopora damicornis — one of the most abundant and widespread reef-building corals in the world — may help us better understand how anthozoans deal with stress.
Earth’s last wilderness areas may soon be lost, study warns
Things don’t look good, but we can still protect what we have if we take immediate action.
LEGO launches functioning wind turbine model to promote sustainability
Who doesn’t love Legos?
Mosquitoes are eating microplastics, which they pass on to the food chain
Ultimately, what the mosquito eats, we eat as well.
When it comes to protecting wildlife, we need better policy, not more science
Well, here’s a surprise.
Clean energy could make the Sahara green
Both figuratively and literally.
Autonomous killer drone aims to save the Great Barrier Reef
Can we please call these things Star Destroyers? Please?
French environment minister quits during live interview — says we’re not doing enough
It’s an extremely courageous decision — and we can only hope his call doesn’t go unheard.
Europe is now home to over one million electric vehicles
China passed the mark in 2017. The US is estimated to do so later this year.
New pesticide found to be as harmful to bumblebees as used pesticides
We need a better solution.
The dirty link between deforestation, illegal fishing, and tax havens
Tax havens are even more problematic than we thought.
Long-term exposure to sunscreen chemicals disrupts zebrafish embryo development
Sunscreen is good for us, not so good for sea creatures.
Reforestation efforts bring back hundreds of species to China
Plant a tree and species will come back to thee.
Climate change will become the leading cause of vertebrate-species loss by 2070
Things are heating up.
NASA creates first 3D model of Amazon rainforest canopy to estimate the effects of droughts, climate change
Drought has a massive effect on rainforests. Bad news in the current changing climate.
Insecticides and low floral diversity are driving bumblebees into the ground
Each year, queens have to re-establish their colonies. Human activity, however, is making it very hard for them to do so.
Old fish don’t want to swim deep — but we’re fishing them all out of shallow waters
What we thought is a natural law is probably ‘just’ impending ecological breakdown.