Science Writer
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Soil Carbon: Complexity, Context + A Way Forward
Researchers highlight agreements and uncertainties around soil carbon and argue that “action can happen despite unanswered scientific questions.”
Cara Cannon Byington
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Emerging Science Explores Ways to Help Make Green Energy Tech Greener
TNC NatureNet Science Fellow Robert Higgins describes an environmentally friendly way to extract the rare-earth minerals that are critical to green energy technologies, from wind turbines to hydrogen-powered cars.
Cara Cannon Byington
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Nature Improves Crop Production
New study shows that promoting nature around farm fields is essential to ensuring and maintaining abundant and stable food production.
Cara Cannon Byington
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Time to Bust the Silos: Coral Reefs, Human Health + Sewage Pollution
The human health and marine conservation sectors are fighting the same root causes and effects of poor water quality. They’re just fighting them separately. New science says the opportunities for collaboration are there and it's past time to bridge the gaps.
Cara Cannon Byington
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Nature Can Be Cost Effective for Improving Urban Water Supplies
In the first rigorous, peer-reviewed study on water fund Return on Investment (ROI) for cities in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, TNC […]
Cara Cannon Byington
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Day of the (Turtle) Dogs
Meet the turtle dogs -- they track and retrieve turtles. For science!
Cara Cannon Byington
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What Scientists Can Learn from Sound and Silence
Sound holds the potential to help fill one of the most vexing evidence gaps in conservation: How do we know what we're doing is actually working?
Cara Cannon Byington
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A Tale of Two Paths to the World in 2050
Can the world actually meet people’s needs for food, water and energy while doing more to protect nature? Is it even theoretically possible? New science says, Yes, but there are a lot strings attached.
Cara Cannon Byington