Science Brief 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.”
Science Brief 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.
Science Brief What Makes Conservation Solutions Go Viral? Conservationists often talk about “going to scale”—solutions that go big and go fast. But most conservation initiatives requiring decades to start proliferating on their own.
Science Brief Nature Improves Crop Production New study shows that promoting nature around farm fields is essential to ensuring and maintaining abundant and stable food production.
Science Brief Incorporating Conservation Into Public Health Frameworks New research incorporates conservation considerations into occupational health and safety frameworks.
Science Brief Fields on Fire: Can Agricultural Alternatives Mean Cleaner Air in India? Agriculture burning contributes significantly to air pollution in India, a country with some of the least healthy air in the world. While regulations exist to reduce these fires, burning continues,…
Science Brief Planning for the Future in a Warming Ocean As climate change makes natural systems more unpredictable, the past is no longer a reliable predictor of the future
Science Brief New Map Shows Hotspots of Species Under Threat A new analysis identifies global hotspots where the most species are threatened by human impacts.
Science Brief How Much Does It Cost to Save Tropical Forests and Prevent Climate Change? New research directly compares, for the first time, how much carbon dioxide could be removed from the atmosphere by both tropical reforestation and deforestation.
Science Brief Deforestation Exposes Rural People to Dangerous Heat Stress Rural Indonesians are changing their behavior as deforestation creates increased local temperatures.
Science Brief 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.
