China said Tuesday that it would prohibit official banquets from serving shark fin soup, an expensive and popular delicacy blamed for a sharp decline in global shark populations. The ban, reported by Xinhua, the state-run news agency, could take as many as three years to take effect, and it remains unclear how widely it will [...]
The Naga Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands. Naga conducts innovative water management work in semi-arid parts of Africa and Asia To tackle this problem, it is essential to improve the water collection capacity of soil. This is achieved with the help of so-called contour trenches. These are trenches that follow the [...]
A tiny microorganism found in Norwegian lake sludge may be related to the very oldest life forms on this planet, a possible modern cousin of our earliest common ancestor. It is not a fungus, alga, parasite, plant or animal, yet it has features associated with other kingdoms of life. It could be a founding member [...]
Predictions of the loss of animal and plant diversity around the world are common under models of future climate change. But a new study shows that because these climate models don’t account for species competition and movement, they could grossly underestimate future extinctions. “We have really sophisticated meteorological models for predicting climate change,” says ecologist [...]
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