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IMAGE: A vital Euphorbia damarana shrub growing at the edge of a much larger fairy circle in the Brandberg region. The size distribution of the dead shrubs did not match the... view more  Credit: S Getzin, University of Göttingen The fairy circles of the Namib are one of natures greatest mysteries. Millions of these circular barren patches extend over vast areas along the margins of the desert in Namibia. In 1979, G.K. Theron published the first research about their origin. His hypothe...

How plants cope with stress factors has already been broadly researched. Yet what happens when a plant is confronted with two stressors simultaneously? A...

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A stoush over a fire study and a chilling glimpse of the future We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Examine, a weekly science newsletter written by national science reporter Liam Mannix, is sent every Tuesday. The latest instalment is below. You can sign up to receive it from The Agehere and from The Sydney Morning Heraldhere. Today, a story about bushfires, the climate crisis, logging, and contested science. It�...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Sustainable packaging: researchers at the University of Göttingen have long been researching manufacturing processes for products made of popcorn that could be an environmentally friendly alternative to polystyrene or plastic... view more  Credit: Carolin Pertsch Modern packaging must do much more than simply meet the specific requirements for transport, storage and presentation: it must also be sustainable. But what does sustainable really mean? It means that the mate...

Mass Audubon promised to preserve wildlife. Then it made millions claiming it could cut down trees By Lisa Song and James Temple ProPublica and MIT Technology Review,Updated May 10, 2021, 3:31 p.m. Email to a Friend ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive This story was originally published by . The Massachusetts Audubon Society has long managed its land in western Massachusetts as crucial wildlife habitat. Nature lovers flock to these forests...

York County Audubon to present talk about interaction between ravens, wolves and people Portsmouth Herald KENNEBUNKPORT – On May 18th, York County Audubon will host wildlife professor John Marzluff to discuss his recent work in Yellowstone National Park which looked at interactions between ravens, wolves, and people. Ravens are known to scavenge food from wolves and people but the relationship has not been well studied. In 2019, Matthias Loretto and presenter John Marzluff began tagging rave...

Why a backyard thats for the birds is great for kids, too Maryellen Kennedy Duckett © Photograph by Barbara Rich / Getty Images Western bluebirds enjoy a morning birdbath in Chico, California. Here’s something worth tweeting about: Being around more birds can boost your family’s happiness. A recent German study of more than 26,000 Europeans found that the cheeriest folks lived near natural areas with a wider diversity of bird species. Since songbirds in particular tend t...

The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere ProPublica 4 hrs ago ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story was co-published with MIT Technology Review. Along the coast of Northern California near the Oregon border, the cool, moist air off the Pacific sustains a strip of temperate rainforests. Soaring redwoods and Douglas firs dominate these thick, ...

I am an Associate Professor of Tropical Forestry at the Department of Forest Sciences, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo (ESALQ / USP), where I coordinate the Laboratory of Tropical Forestry (LASTROP). I?\m currently the vice-coordinator of the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact and am an affiliated member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2021-2025). I have a degree in Agronomy and a PhD in Sciences from ESALQ /USP. My research and outreach projects aim to dev...