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Assessment of Meadow Ecosystem Biomass Helps Understand the Potential of Carbon Sequestration

Assessing the functional structure of plant communities and their productivity helps to determine the contribution of biological diversity and primary productivity to ecosystem services, the most significant of which are provisioning and regulating services.

17 Nov 2021

Freightliner Accelerates Progress Towards Net Zero with Low Emission Fuel

Freightliner, a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) and a leading UK rail freight operator, is supporting the development of Gd45 powered by Shell GTL Fuel, a new lower emission fuel, and will be the first to use the product for operational trials on some of its diesel-powered services in support of their commitment to enhancing the environmental benefits of rail-freight transportation.

From Green BioFuels Ltd 17 Nov 2021

Free Technology will Help Cities Turn Net Zero Targets into Climate Action Plans

ClimateView will help cities turbocharge climate action and respond to calls from the UN to “push further and faster” by giving them free access from today to cutting edge technology that helps them plan their best route to net zero.

16 Nov 2021

Massive Restoration of Coastal Regions Needed to Sustain Vital Ecosystem Services

Prominent marine and coastal ecologists, maritime engineers, and economists from 38 organizations across Europe, Israel, and Turkey came together in Barcelona between November 2nd and 5th, 2021 for the official commencement meeting of a new project.

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

Humans Played a Crucial Role in the Extinction of Woolly Mammoths

New research shows that humans had a significant role in the extinction of woolly mammoths in Eurasia, occurring thousands of years later than previously thought.

12 Nov 2021

High-Resolution Mapping Analysis Estimates the Impact of Human Sewage on Coastal Ecosystems

A first-of-its-kind, high-resolution mapping analysis estimates the amounts of nitrogen and pathogens released into coastal ecosystems from human wastewater sources around the world.

11 Nov 2021

Degraded Landscapes can be Restored if Secondary Forests Surround Lakes

According to a recent study by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) postdoctoral fellow Karina Chavarria and colleagues, bacterial communities in streams neighboring young secondary forests recover to look like those of mature forest streams in as little as 10 years after cattle has been moved away from the land, and that these communities are resilient during the course of the year.

8 Nov 2021