Written by: Dominic McAfee and Craig Copeland
Around Australia, hundreds of people are coming together to help a once-prized, but decimated and largely forgotten marine ecosystem. They’re busy restoring Australia’s native oyster and mussel reefs.
Alongside the high-profile national Reef Builder campaign,...
Written by: Jane Thoning Callesen
As the planet faces an unprecedented crisis in biodiversity loss, traditional methods of tracking and protecting endangered species are no longer sufficient.
Ecologists and conservationists have long relied on GPS collars, camera traps and field studies...
Written by: Charles Masquelier, Carolyn Petersen, and Matt Lobley
The Burren region of County Clare, Ireland, is famous for its distinctive limestone habitat, coastal landscape, rich wildlife and unusual archaeology. Several hundred farmers also manage livestock on this land.
As social scientists, we’ve been...
Written by: Rachel Buxton, Emma J. Hudgins, and Stephanie Prince Ware
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Written by: Emily Kelly and Paula Cristina Sierra-Correa
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Written by: YCC Team, Yale Climate Connections
Many landowners in rural parts of the southeastern U.S. have farmed on their land for decades.
But as they get older and worry about their family’s future, some feel a financial need to sell...
Written by: Easkey Britton
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Written by: Jay L. Zagorsky
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The host city has promised that the next Summer Games will be “car-free.”
For people who know Los Angeles, this seems...
Written by: Saidia Ali, Policy Options
In a time of rapid urbanization, cities and nature are often seen as incompatible: either biodiversity suffers as cities grow or cities are contained to protect nature.
There is no question that human activities impact...
Written by: Johan Oldekop, Bowy den Braber, and Marina Schmoeller
Although deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have halved, it is still losing more than 5,000km² every year. That’s an area three times larger than Greater London.
By combining satellite imagery for...
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