Researchers find a missing piece in coral reef restoration: crabs
They transplanted native crabs to degraded coral reefs patches to help clear out the seaweed. It worked better than they imagined.
They transplanted native crabs to degraded coral reefs patches to help clear out the seaweed. It worked better than they imagined.
A study finds that how we produce food has a huge bearing on its environmental impact. And consumers have a big role to play in evening it out.
Have some conservationists exaggerated the impacts of free-ranging cats on biodiversity? Or are cat advocates guilty of science denialism?
In the most detailed study on topic to date, researchers find that ending extreme poverty worldwide would increase global carbon emissions by only around 2%.
Ya que cada vez más personas valoran las consideraciones éticas de lastimar a los animales al escoger sus dietas, el número de animales que mueren debido a la agricultura es una parte importante de información. Sin embargo, es sorprendentemente difícil de encontrar una cifra precisa.
A new analysis shows that around 2.3 percent of the potent greenhouse gas methane leaks into the air from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain, amounting to around 13 million metric tons a year. This is 60 percent higher than the EPA's previous estimate.
With the help of a hardy new strain of the common gut bacteria E. coli, researchers have invented a one-pot process to convert switchgrass into a chemical compound used to make jet fuel.
As Earth warms and weather patterns become more variable, climate change could alter the biosphere in a little-appreciated way: by changing how it sounds.
Insects are not only vanishing from ecosystems; they’re also becoming scarce in college biology textbooks.