Sri Lanka university aims to be the country’s first to go...
The University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ) in Sri Lanka has assessed its carbon footprint under ISO standards and has now become the country’s first...
Turning hard-to-recycle polyethylene into drug treatments
USC scientists say their new method breaks down polyethylene plastic into agents used to develop antibiotics, cholesterol drugs and more.
Lab-engineered strains of the fungus...
What if the dinos had not gone extinct?
Imagine the asteroid had missed, and dinosaurs survived. Picture highly evolved raptors planting their flag on the moon.
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit...
As sixth mass extinction accelerates, time to invest in nature
BONN, Germany (29 November 2022) – The Earth is undergoing a mass extinction for the first time since the dinosaurs died out 66 million...
Entrepreneurship can help curb biodiversity loss from the ground up
Johannesburg, 29 November22: Local entrepreneurs and communities can play a determining role in helping to curb biodiversity loss. With the right support, pro-nature projects...
As shark numbers plummet, nations seek ban on devastatingly effective gear
The U.S. and Canada are seeking a ban in the Pacific on two fishing devices, known as wire leaders and shark lines, that have...
New protections for sharks, songbirds, frogs and more at CITES trade...
The 19th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, known as CoP19, ended Nov....
What happened to Indigenous rights at COP27
This year’s U.N. climate conference saw the highest participation of Indigenous peoples to date, with more than 300 delegates from around the world calling...
Indonesia’s orangutans declining amid ‘lax’ and ‘laissez-faire’ law enforcement
The widespread failure by Indonesian law enforcers to crack down on crimes against orangutans is what’s allowing them to be killed at persistently high...
SANBWA points out drawbacks of popular alternatives to PET bottles
The South African National Bottled Water Association (SANBWA) has compiled a fact sheet outlining the drawbacks of the packaging solutions being presented as alternatives...
Indigenous cooperative restores forests to form ecological corridor in Bahia
An Indigenous Pataxó cooperative reforested 210 hectares (519 acres) of Atlantic Forest in the Monte Pascoal-Pau Brasil Ecological Corridor with species that covered the...
In Brazilian Amazon, mining harm comes from beyond just the mines,...
A new land-use-change model suggests that the indirect impacts of mining operations in the Brazilian Amazon have been grossly underestimated.Impacts include not only deforestation...
