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Wetlands can be Restored for Coastal Protection Using Machine Learning

By feeding large experimental data sets to a machine learning model, wetland establishment for flood defense can be enabled by manipulating the local conditions, thus overruling intense global change stressors.

17 Nov 2021

UK's First Cleantech Cluster Celebrates Ten Years and £135M+ Invested in a Greener Future

The pioneering centre for environmentally friendly technology in the UK, Cambridge Cleantech, has marked its tenth birthday with a call for more companies to join its multi million pound pan-European success story.

17 Nov 2021

New Stanford Analysis Provides Empirical Evidence that Wildfires Accelerate Forest Changes

Refugees are on the move in forests across the western U.S. As climate conditions change, the ranges of tree species are shifting, especially toward cooler or wetter sites.

16 Nov 2021

African Great Green Wall Initiative Also Makes Economic Sense

The Sahel extends south of the Sahara from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east of Africa. Vast areas of the formerly fertile region are now virtually uncultivated.

16 Nov 2021

Conservation Efforts Focused on a Smaller Geographic Area may Protect Endangered Species in Central Africa

Efforts to protect threatened and endangered species in central Africa might be more successful if they focused on a smaller geographic area, new research suggests.

16 Nov 2021

Study Offers First Comprehensive Database of China’s Marine Conservation

A new study by an international team of scientists led by Ellen Pikitch, PhD, of Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), provides the first comprehensive and publicly available database of area-based marine conservation in China's waters.

15 Nov 2021

Researchers Study How Corals React to Changing Environmental Conditions

PhD student Fabian Gösser from the Department of Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity has been studying how corals react to changing environmental conditions and how their stress response could contribute to the survival of the reefs.

15 Nov 2021

Climate Change is Altering Familiar Conditions and Creating New Environments in the World's Oceans

Climate change is altering familiar conditions of the world's oceans and creating new environments that could undermine efforts to protect sea life in the world's largest marine protected areas, new research from Oregon State University shows.

15 Nov 2021

Single Spatial Planning Framework for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Production

Crop and livestock production are among the main drivers of biodiversity loss globally. Due to the ever-increasing demand of land for food production, reverting global biodiversity decline and feeding the world is one of the greatest challenges of our time.

15 Nov 2021

Coralline Algae Negatively Affected by Ocean Acidification, Study Reveals

Scientists have long suspected that coralline algae are particularly sensitive to changes in ocean chemistry. Now, researchers have found that most species of coralline algae studied are negatively affected by ocean acidification.

5 Nov 2021