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Researchers discover a creative way to reduce pesticides
“Plant strengtheners” offer an alternative to applying environmentally-damaging chemicals
To reduce carbon emissions and increase crop yields in peatland soils, just add water
Increasing the water table in fertile peatland soils could boost agricultural productivity and slow the release of stored carbon dioxide into the air.
We should be measuring the footprint of supply chains
Attributing water consumption and greenhouse gas emissions to countries rather than industrial sectors is a leading example of how the supply chain world warps geography.
Mangroves optimized: How to make coastal habitats sequester even more carbon
Reducing pollution, protecting predators, and restoring natural hydrologies offer a tremendous opportunity for carbon storage beyond the basic strategies of protection and restoration.
Study ties amphibian collapses with increased malaria outbreaks
If you remove frogs and other "mosquito-reducers" from the landscape, what happens to malaria rates?
Smartphones are warming the planet far more than you think
Greenhouse gas emissions from computers, phones, and data centers could grow from about 1 percent of global emissions in 2007 to over 14 percent in 2040. The carbon footprint of smartphones will exceed that of desktop computers, laptops, and displays.
Here’s one way to save farmland: synthesize starch from CO2
Researchers develop a method to make this crucial industrial ingredient 8.5 times faster than nature can — with potential consequences for food security and land savings
Why not to evict bats from buildings
A new study shows just how important buildings can be for little brown bats, a once-common species ravaged by disease.
Rapid evolution may help some city creatures stand the heat
A new study of urban and rural acorn ants is one of the first to capitalize on the fact that cities tend to be a few degrees warmer than surrounding rural areas to demonstrate evolution in action over the course of just a few generations.
How leopards in Mumbai may save human lives
It’s often not easy to live beside big predators. People have an instinctive and very understandable wariness of large, meating-eating wild animals, and they’re perceived through a lens tinted by centuries of fear and persecution. Yet we might accept these animals as neighbors, or at least appreciate when their ecological effects coincide with our own goals — such as preventing rabies in the Indian city of Mumbai.
