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New Global Forecasts Could Help Ocean-Dependent Communities Anticipate the Effects of Marine Heatwaves

Researchers have developed global forecasts that can provide up to a year's notice of marine heatwaves, sudden and pronounced increases in ocean temperatures that can dramatically affect ocean ecosystems.

21 Apr 2022

Deforestation of Indigenous Lands Endangers Brazil’s Ability to Meet Climate Change Mitigation Targets

Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon are under constant pressure, and deforestation of these areas has accelerated in recent years. Some of them, such as Apyterewa Indigenous Territory in Pará state, are particularly affected, endangering Brazil's ability to meet the targets to which it is committed internationally in terms of combating deforestation and mitigating the impact of climate change.

20 Apr 2022

ORNL Researchers Investigate the Effects of Manganese on Soil Carbon and Climate

While most people think first of atmospheric carbon emissions from fossil fuels when considering climate change, the planet's soil actually stores more carbon and could become a major source of carbon release or a mitigation tactic in the years ahead.

19 Apr 2022

Carbon Neutrality Widely Associated with Climate, Ecology, Energy, Environment, and Society

The aim of carbon neutrality is considered to be a combined and highly complicated problem that has been extensively linked with ecology, climate, energy, environment, and society.

11 Apr 2022

"Hotter-Drought Fingerprint" Reveals Link Between Global Forest Mortality and Climate Extremes

How hot is too hot, and how dry is too dry, for the Earth's forests? A new study from an international team of researchers found the answers – by looking at decades of dying trees.

6 Apr 2022

Alternative Method For Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Fruit Harvesting

A team of ecologists led by the University of Leeds and the Amazonian Research Institute of Peru - IIAP - has shown that harvesting the fruit of Mauritia flexuosa by climbing the palm tree - instead of cutting it - could lead to a dramatic improvement in the ecology of the Amazonian rainforest as well as the livelihood of indigenous communities.

5 Apr 2022

Changing the Way Palm Fruit is Harvested Could Have Positive Impacts in Amazonia

Changing the way fruit is gathered from a "tree of life" could have hugely positive environmental and financial impacts in Amazonia, according to a new study.

5 Apr 2022

Study Finds Major Bird Declines for 44 Years in Protected Tropical Forest

Deep in a Panamanian rain forest, bird populations have been quietly declining for 44 years. A new University of Illinois-led study shows a whopping 70% of understory bird species declined in the forest between 1977 and 2020. And the vast majority of those are down by half or more.

5 Apr 2022

Valio and Atria are First in Finland to Pilot Feed Additive Made by DSM - Methane Emissions from Cows can be Reduced by 30 Percent

Valio and Atria were the first in Finland early this year to test Bovaer®, a feed additive made by the Dutch company DSM. The additive has proved to reduce methane emissions produced by cows by 30 percent.

From Valio Ltd 5 Apr 2022

New Research Shows Warmer Temperatures Could Have an Impact on Butterflies

According to new research, green-veined white butterflies are less likely to survive the winter and appear in the spring because of longer and warmer autumns. Functional Ecology, a publication of the British Ecological Society, has published the results.

4 Apr 2022