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Creating Strategic Forest Reserves Could Help Fight Climate Change and Safeguard Biodiversity

The United States should immediately move to create a collection of strategic forest reserves in the Western U.S. to fight climate change and safeguard biodiversity, according to a scientific collaboration led by an Oregon State University ecologist.

15 Dec 2021

Changing Food Availability Facilitated the Extinction of Ancient Megafauna Communities

Different combinations of human hunting and climate change caused Australia's famed 'giant' species to go extinct, and now it turns out that for some species, changing food availability made things worse.

15 Dec 2021

Female and Juvenile Bats are More Frequently Killed by Wind Turbines

Many bats die at wind turbines when colliding with the spinning blades. Currently it is unclear whether all age cohorts or sexes are equally vulnerable.

14 Dec 2021

Creating a Market for Small Trees Could Help Limit Carbon and Curb Wildfires

Clearing California's forests of dense overgrowth is a critical first step for curbing catastrophic wildfire in the state.

14 Dec 2021

Climate Change Fuels Seagrass Wasting Disease Outbreaks

In an oceanic omen for climate change's intensifying effects, new research shows that seagrass suffers from a lesion-filled wasting disease through large swaths of intertidal meadows in the Pacific Northwest.

14 Dec 2021

Railcare will Reduce its Fossil Emissions by 40% by 2025

As part of the Group's ongoing sustainability work, Railcare has set a clear goal of reducing the consumption of fossil emissions from its own locomotives and machinery by 40% by 2025.

14 Dec 2021

Climate Models Could Grossly Underestimate Future Extinctions of Species

Ecologists estimate that 15 to 37% of plant and animal species will go extinct as a direct result of the rapidly changing climate.

10 Dec 2021

New Study Finds Healthy, Diverse Soundscape on Restored Coral Reefs

In Indonesia, thousands of square meters of coral are being grown on formerly damaged reefs, but earlier, it was uncertain if these new corals would recover the complete reef ecosystem.

9 Dec 2021