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.
New research suggests that a conservation basic income could be fair and effective. It could also cost as much as $6 trillion per year.
The lack of sound science isn’t what’s keeping land management agencies from effectively dealing with the horse conundrum. It’s the politics.
"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.
They discovered that single animal’s DNA contains clues to the extinction risk of the entire species.
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.
"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.”
When they conducted a network analysis to track bird movement, researchers discovered a better way to evaluate the impacts of big infrastructure projects
Restoring populations of otters, wolves, whales, fish and other ecosystem-shaping creatures could capture an eye-popping 6.4 billion tons of CO2 annually
The most common insect-borne diseases change dramatically as a landscape goes from lightly-inhabited forest to jam-packed city, scientists find.
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.