Amazon bioeconomy starved as billions flow to commodity agribusiness, study finds
A PLOS Climate analysis shows over 90 percent of Brazilian rural credit goes to large-scale producers while Amazon sociobiodiversity economies ...
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Mining, Timber and Toxic Silt: How a German River Turned Human 1,000 Years Ago
Floodplain sediments of Germany's Kinzig River reveal that mining-driven deforestation and contamination shifted the river from natural to human control ...
Satellites Reveal Three Decades of Warming as Sylhet’s Forests Give Way to Cities
A thirty-year satellite and field study of Bangladesh's Sylhet Division shows settlement expansion of nearly 192 percent, a quarter of ...
Satellites and Algorithms Alone Cannot Fix Ghana’s Illegal Gold Mining Crisis
A systematic review of 25 studies finds that satellite monitoring, machine learning, and blockchain cannot curb Ghana's galamsey crisis without ...
Bavarian River Floodplain Reveals Millennia of Human Transformation Beneath Its Sediments
Sediment cores and geophysical surveys in the Wiesent River valley of northern Bavaria reveal that medieval farming, deforestation, sheep grazing, ...
Mapping the Power Web Behind an Ethiopian Forest: Who Really Governs Gargeda?
A new social network analysis of Gargeda State Forest in western Ethiopia reveals that government institutions dominate collaborative forest governance, ...
Wildfire ozone pollution weakening Amazon’s ability to absorb carbon
New research shows ozone pollution from Amazon wildfires cuts the rainforest's carbon uptake by an amount equivalent to about a ...
Sulawesi Is Losing Its Water-Regulating Landscapes, Satellite Record Shows
A 32-year spatial analysis shows that high water regulation capacity on Sulawesi Island fell from 59.5 percent of the land ...
Southeast Asia Lost Nearly 60% of Its Intact Forests in Two Decades, Satellites Reveal
A satellite and machine learning study finds Southeast Asia lost about 59 percent of its intact forests between 2000 and ...
Brazil’s Lifeline River Faces a Forest Future in Peril, New 2050 Models Warn
A spatially explicit modeling study projects that forest cover in Brazil's São Francisco River Basin could fall by up to ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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