How Does Coronavirus Affect Biodiversity? New Views from the Field Biologist highlights implications for environmental conservation and research amidst the pandemic. By Katherine Gianni Photo by Kai Dörner on Unsplash. For Boston University professor of biology, Richard Primack, research often takes him far beyond his classroom in Boston to places like Malaysia, China, Japan, and Germany for extensive fieldwork and […]
Climate Crises + Extinction = St. Francis
Today, Oct.4, is the feast day of St. Francis. Almost 800 years ago he gave a sermon to the birds which began our long journey to include of all of Nature in our circle of concern. Don’t worry, I am not going to try to convert you or give a religious sermon, it’s just that […]
More than 20 African countries are planting a 8,000-km-long ‘Great Green Wall’
The Sahara desert has been slowly expanding southwards for decades through a region as the Sahel. Heavy grazing, deforestation, and numerous droughts have degraded the once lush Sahel, making it easy pickings for the Sahara’s expansion. In order to stave off an ecological disaster across the continent, 20 different African countries have embarked on an […]
Tree planting ‘has mind-blowing potential’ to tackle climate crisis
Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists, who have made the first calculation of how many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas. As trees grow, they absorb and store the carbon dioxide […]
wild mammal destruction by humans
Humans have destroyed 83% of wild mammals Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study. Yet since the dawn […]