Environmental Protection
China’s booming orchid industry is a test of its commitment to conservation
China’s Biodiversity Red List significantly underestimates wild harvest as a threat to Chinese orchids.
Deforestation and droughts tend to worsen one another
Human-caused deforestation disrupts and harms the environment so much that severe droughts are inevitable.
We can end deforestation in the Amazon
Forest clearance in the region threatens people, wild species and freshwater supplies along with the climate.
In just two decades the amount of microplastics has tripled on the seafloor
Once deposited, degradation is minimal so plastics from the 1960s onwards remain on the seabed.
US textbooks on biology fall short on climate change content
Most college textbooks published in the 2010s had less information about climate change than in the previous decade.
The new UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction
The new UN deal may force us to reconsider the usefulness of such meetings altogether.