Environmental Protection
Rare orangutans are losing even their last remaining forests
Until relatively recently these orangutans lived across a much wider range of various habitats.
UN: plastic waste affects disadvantaged people the most
Vulnerable communities disproportionately bear the brunt of environmental degradation caused by plastics pollution.
Frequent extreme weather events are increasing crop losses in Europe
Cereals, a staple that occupies nearly 65 percent of the EU's cultivated area, are the crops most severely affected.
Carbon sequestration will pose great engineering challenges
Saline reservoirs are the most likely storage places for captured carbon dioxide because they are large and ubiquitous.
Climate change is driving tropical species further north in the southern U.S.
"Quite a few mosquito species are expanding northward, as well as a lot of forestry pests."
U.S. scientists look to the moon to save earth’s biodiversity
Scientists in the U.S. are working on a biodiversity “lunar ark” to store seeds on the moon more safely than the Svalbard Seed Vault does.