Environment

Conservation news and Environmental science

Corporate social responsibility can help companies go green

Corporate social responsibility can help companies go green

With climate change becoming a more urgent issue, the environment has become CSR’s primary focus. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an umbrella term for corporations’...

Leprosy prevalent among Amazon’s armadillos, study finds

Researchers have found...
Industrial mining is wreaking havoc with tropical forests

Industrial mining is wreaking havoc with tropical forests

There is a broad range of environmental damage caused by mining operations on top of deforestation. Deforestation in tropical nations has deprived vast territories of...

How to use drones without stressing wildlife

On today’s episode,...

Fresh life is being breathed into Umgeni River as big business...

Just last month, videos of hundreds – possibly even thousands – of dead fish floating in the Umgeni River highlighted the extent of pollution...
The mystery of narwhal behavior, solved by chaos theory

The mystery of narwhal behavior, solved by chaos theory

Researchers have used mathematical models based on chaos theory to analyze the movements of a pod of satellite-tagged narwhals.Around solar noon, narwhals rest nearer...
As Indonesia paints rosy picture for orangutans, scientists ask: Where’s the data?

As Indonesia paints rosy picture for orangutans, scientists ask: Where’s the...

Foreign scientists who were apparently banned for questioning the Indonesian government’s claim that orangutans are widely increasing in number insist none of the available...

Colombia bans the use of mercury in mining

Colombia’s government announced...
Brazil’s 20-year Amazon reforestation carbon sink project

Brazil’s 20-year Amazon reforestation carbon sink project

The Peugeot-ONF Forest Carbon Sink project, implemented more than 20 years ago in northwestern Mato Grosso state, within the “arc of deforestation” of the...