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Finally, an answer to a mystery surrounding these 1,000-year-old trees
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara· 3 hours agoBaobabs can live for more than 1,000 years, acting as the keystone species in dry forest...
This Ecuadorian forest thrived amid deforestation after being granted legal rights
BBC News· 7 days agoA cloud forest in northern Ecuador is protected from deforestation and mining after being recognised...
Supreme Court ruling is ‘massive vindication’, says campaigner who brought case
Press Association News via AOL· 4 days agoLater describing the decision as a “huge win”, Ms Finch continued: “In climate science we hear a lot...
Fossil fuel opponents score victory in a UK Supreme Court ruling on case near a London airport
ABC News· 4 days agoFossil fuel opponents won a major victory Thursday as the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that planners...
Queues gather at Kew to sniff 'corpse flower' stink
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoVisitors can find it inside the Princess of Wales Conservatory on site. Listen to Marnie Chesterton's report looking at the science of stinky plants on...
Zika-like virus found in sloths spreads from Amazon to humans
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe Oropouche virus – a vector-borne disease – is subject to explosive bursts of contagion - LUIS...
Here are the nonfiction books NPR staffers have loved so far this year
NPR· 7 days agoBe the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie Not the End of the World sifts through the evidence on pollution, extinction threats and deforestation
Recent discoveries that have taken Earth's experts by surprise
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFrom incredible discoveries about the natural world to archaeological finds and new learnings about...
Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and its famous Moai statues
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt is also noted by Hunt and Lipo that the deforestation of the island may not have led to a food crisis. They point out in their book, "The Statues that...
Can Collaborative Financing Help Fashion Decarbonize?
Sourcing Journal via Yahoo Finance· 7 days agoWhile it’s true that the “money must flow,” he said that the “real“ issue is willpower. “We have the...