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Planned legal changes will see three neonicotinoid pesticides completely banned from any future use.
The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has turned the surrounding rainforest
Nature, Published online: 09 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03994-y One year into President Javier Milei’s presidency, scientists are exiting the country in the face of big budget cuts.
Non-native species introduced by humans are among the main causes of global species decline — they were partly responsible for 60 percent of the species that have become extinct worldwide in
Here are some of the standout images from the 2024 Nature Conservancy Oceania Photo Contest.The 2024 contest saw close to 2,000 entries from photographers in Australia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands
When a forest is lost to development, some effects are obvious. Stumps and mud puddles across the landscape, a plowed field or houses a year after that. But deforestation isn’t just
The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia is the largest living coral reef system on Earth, about 300 times larger than the next largest reef, found off the coast
Humans are leaving consistent patterns in forest disturbance structures across the world, according to a new study from the University of Leicester, the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) and the
The town of Carrboro, North Carolina is suing one of the US‘s largest electric utilities, Duke Energy, over its role in accelerating climate change. Carrboro alleges that Duke — which operates