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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

Researchers Aim to Gain Cleaner Fuel from CO2

A recent research project from the University of Surrey aims to use the planet’s air to manufacture new chemicals for fuel and other important chemical goods.

4 Apr 2022

Tropical Trees' Trunk Growth is Reduced During Drier and Warmer Seasons

For a long time, ecologists assumed tree rings to be absent in tropical trees because of a lack of temperature and rain fluctuations in the trees' environment.

4 Apr 2022

Mammoth Mountain’s CO2 Emissions Strongly Linked to Weight of Snow and Ice Atop the Sierra Nevada

Thirty years ago, on the flanks of a volcano in California's Sierra Nevada range, trees began to die en masse, suffocated at their roots by carbon dioxide seeping up from the mountain's depths after a swarm of small earthquakes.

30 Mar 2022

Climate Change is the Culprit Behind Birds' Early Nesting and Egg-Laying Behavior

Spring is in the air. Birds are singing and beginning to build their nests. It happens every year, like clockwork. But a new study in the Journal of Animal Ecology shows that many species of birds are nesting and laying eggs nearly a month earlier than they did a hundred years ago.

28 Mar 2022

Reconstruction of Rapid Glacial Movement in Greenland During Norse Inhabitation

The world’s second largest ice body is the Greenland Ice Sheet. It has the possibility of adding considerably to the rise in global sea level in a global warming climate.

28 Mar 2022