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Researchers at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) are pleased to have secured US $300,000 to conduct much needed research...

A UC Merced researcher has a prominent role at a worldwide conference on water taking place at the United Nations this week.


"Why would they send us here... if there's no one out there?" Vertical Entertainment has revealed the first trailer for an intriguing sci-fi thriller film titled Last Sentinel, made in Estonia by an Estonian filmmaker named Tanel Toom. Here's the premise: set in the near future, a skeleton crew of soldiers is stranded at sea

The Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of remaining forest affected by humans, according to a new study.

The Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of remaining forest affected by humans, according to a new study published on January 27 in the journal Science.

Read the first Policy Perspectives from PLOS Climate and PLOS Sustainability and Transformation outlining post-2020 biodiversity goals.

As the United Nations Biodiversity Conference kicks off in Montreal, Canada, many people will be ignoring it. But, as this gathering of diplomats, scientists and civil society is showing, conserving biodiversity is imperative to reaching climate targets, and those targets are key to achieving g...

Global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 remain at record levels and natural carbon sinks are being impacted by climate change, according to a report published last week by the Global Carbon Project.   The publication, produced by an international team of more than 100 scientists including many experts from NOAA, projects that atmospheric CO2 concentrations will reach an average of 417.2 parts per million in 2022, more than 50 percent above pre-industrial levels. The projection of 40.6...

The Water Security and Climate Change Conference (WSCC) is an annual event where scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders from various sectors discuss the diverse facets of water security and its inter-relationship with climate variability and climate change. The overarching objective of these conferences is to proliferate the exchange of knowledge and practical know-how on the intrinsic […]

Although remedying poverty would have an impact on the environment, but it's the world's wealthiest people who do the most damage.