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 ...
Tag: land use change
Tourism Is Quietly Stripping the Green Life from Iran’s Zayandeh Rud River
A new spatial analysis of Iran's Zayandeh Rud River shows that unplanned tourism development has driven land-use conversion, tree loss, ...
Ethiopia’s Upper Omo Gibe Basin Is Losing Soil at an Alarming Rate, Satellite Study Finds
A coupled RUSLE-SWPT modeling study shows soil loss in Ethiopia's Upper Omo Gibe Basin rose 44 percent over three decades, ...
Two Decades of Satellite Eyes Reveal Where Mizoram Is Quietly Losing Its Green Cover
A two-decade Landsat analysis using image-specific NDVI thresholding reveals a net loss of 275 square kilometres of mapped vegetation in ...
Dynamic Land-Use Model Reveals Extinction Risk May Spike Abruptly, and Protected Areas Can Bend the Curve
A new spatially explicit model shows that simultaneous, merging land-use events make species loss accelerate abruptly at later conversion stages, ...
Port-au-Prince’s Breakneck Urban Boom Is Rewiring Flood Risk from Mountain Ridges to the Sea
Satellite records show Port-au-Prince's built-up area more than quadrupled between 2015 and 2025, converting the vegetated slopes that regulate runoff ...
Irrigation Yields Massive Greenhouse Gas Savings for U.S. Agriculture
New research from Colorado State University shows that U.S. agricultural irrigation prevents significantly more greenhouse gas emissions than it produces ...
Planting Trees on Farmland, Not Grassland, Unlocks China’s Soil Carbon Bonanza
A synthesis of 361 afforestation sites across China shows that planting trees on former cropland delivers decades of sustained soil ...
Bare Ground Before the City: Ibadan’s Predictable Path of Urban Expansion
A two-decade satellite analysis of Ibadan's peri-urban corridor reveals that urban expansion follows a predictable sequence from vegetation to bare ...
Nigerian Megacity Consumes Twice Its Land: Kano’s Ecological Deficit Revealed
A first-of-its-kind geospatial study finds that Kano metropolis consumes resources at twice the rate its land can regenerate, with food ...
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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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