A new species of marmoset has been discovered in the south-west of Pará State in Brazil in an area of the Amazon that has suffered extensive illegal logging and agricultural incursion. According to the researchers,…
Forests: A key piece of the land and…
Scientists contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have published a new report examining the interactions between climate change and land use. Agriculture, forestry, and other land uses are responsible for nearly a…
Burning Forests for Rain, and Other Climate Catastrophes
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Climate change: Marine heatwaves kill coral instantly
Image copyright University of New South Wales Image caption Scientists studied corals in the Great Barrier Reef Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves can lead to the almost instant death of corals, scientists working on the Great…