Paying people a guaranteed income could protect biodiversity. For a very high price.
New research suggests that a conservation basic income could be fair and effective. It could also cost as much as $6 trillion per year.
May 2023 24
Warren Cornwall
Warren Cornwall is a freelance journalist based in Bellingham, Washington His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe Magazine, and the Seattle Times. He is a contributing correspondent for Science.
May 2023 17
Wild horse numbers are out of control. The remedy hinges on whether they are wildlife, pets or livestock.
The lack of sound science isn’t what’s keeping land management agencies from effectively dealing with the horse conundrum. It’s the politics.
May 2023 10
How an explosion in urban beekeeping coincided with a decline in wild pollinators
"Just as we wouldn’t advocate keeping backyard chickens to save the birds, we shouldn’t look to beekeeping to save the bees,” say researchers.
May 2023 3
Data-deficient species are a conservation blind spot. Geneticists found a way to see through it.
They discovered that single animal’s DNA contains clues to the extinction risk of the entire species.
Apr 2023 26
A vast savanna in Brazil is an intriguing laboratory for conservation on private lands
A Brazilian law dating to the 1930s requires rural landowners to set aside 20- 35% of their property as reserves; the result is a haven for threatened species.
Apr 2023 19
Scientists created a computer-driven version of an extinction crystal ball
"What we need is some way of anticipating species that may not be threatened at the moment but have a high chance of becoming threatened in the future.”
Apr 2023 12
How you count birds can make all the difference in airport design
When they conducted a network analysis to track bird movement, researchers discovered a better way to evaluate the impacts of big infrastructure projects
Mar 2023 29
Study quantifies the under-appreciated ways in which wildlife are part of the carbon equation
Restoring populations of otters, wolves, whales, fish and other ecosystem-shaping creatures could capture an eye-popping 6.4 billion tons of CO2 annually
Mar 2023 22
Which disease that mosquito gives you depends on a landscape’s human footprint
The most common insect-borne diseases change dramatically as a landscape goes from lightly-inhabited forest to jam-packed city, scientists find.
Mar 2023 15
The astonishing salt marsh-building power of the humble, tiny mussel
Researchers transplanted 200,000 of them and tracked the elevation of marshlands over 3 years; they contributed to new land at 5x the predicted rate.
