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Even small-scale fisheries can destroy marine ecosystems
The global impacts of small-scale fisheries include millions of tons of catch every year, often in places of high biodiversity.
We need to understand people if exotic pets are the problem
There’s long been concern about the exotic pet trade, but scientists don’t know as much as they’d like about the economic, social, and ecological factors that drive the trade – especially when it comes to people making decisions that lead
Plastic pollution harms vital oxygen-producing bacteria
Exposed to plastic waste, the bacteria are "strongly" impaired in their capacity to grow and photosynthesize.
Exploring wildlife around power plants in the UK
I first saw Sizewell B from the pebbly beach at Aldeburgh, a quaint village on the English Suffolk coast.
Coral damage, ecosystem loss tied to ‘Reef Grief’ in Australia
Scientists at James Cook University in Queensland are among the world’s foremost experts on the damaged coral and threatened biodiversity of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, but their recent research focuses instead on people. Specifically, they set out to measure “Reef
Farming octopuses is a really bad idea
"Octopus factory farming is ethically and ecologically unjustified.”