Research recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides new evidence that ecological restoration can provide a cost effective response to environmental degradation.
The research focused on the dryland forests of Read more…
Coral reefs May Survive Global Warming. Leading Experts say that more than half of the world’s coral reefs could disappear in the next 50 years, in large part because of higher ocean temperatures caused by climate change. But now Stanford University (USA) scientists Read more…
Most polluted or damaged ecosystems worldwide can recover within a lifetime if societies commit to their cleanup or restoration, according to an analysis of 240 independent studies by researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Read more…
In an alarming new assessment of the oceans and their ecological health, Jeremy Jackson, a professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, believes that human impacts are laying the groundwork for mass extinctions in the oceans Read more…
