Category: Environment

South African shoppers were far more likely to buy a plastic bag when the cashier offered one

A study of shoppers in South Africa, Norway and Germany found that plastic bag use...

A robot reached the face of a Greenland glacier and found an unexpected hotspot of life

Researchers sent an underwater robot directly to the dangerous boundary where a Greenland glacier meets...

Air pollution is making plants less efficient with water, global study finds

Fine-particle air pollution is making vegetation less efficient at using water, a new global study...

A Restored Wetland Stored More Carbon Than Standard Estimates Suggested

Researchers analysing almost 4,000 sediment samples found that a restored tidal wetland accumulated substantial carbon...

Butterflies Are Redrawing Their Map of the World

A global analysis of 1,758 butterfly species shows that their ranges are shifting across the...

Diverse Grasslands May Hold Up Better When Drought Gets Extreme

A global analysis of 75 biodiversity experiments found that plant diversity provided its strongest productivity...

Western Cape Leopards Are Widespread But the Landscape Between Them Is Hard to Cross

Leopards remain widely distributed across the Western Cape, but new mapping shows that fragmented landscapes...

Plastic Is Not Just in South Africa’s Water. It Is Falling From the Air

South African researchers found microplastics falling from the atmosphere at sharply different rates across urban...

Earth’s forests are becoming less resilient and scientists say the warning signs are already visible

A global satellite analysis suggests forests are becoming slower to recover after droughts and heatwaves,...

The next 20 years could determine the future of biodiversity, scientists warn

The biggest threat to biodiversity may not be climate change alone, but the decisions societies...

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