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Green Spaces in Cities Help Control Floods, Store Carbon

For many ecologists, fieldwork involves majestic mountains or rushing rivers or large tracts of wilderness. At the very least, it means exploring natural areas that aren’t defined by human development.

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Deforestation May Intensify Global Warming Even More Than Previously Predicted

Unless the clearing of tropical forests is halted, the mean global temperature could rise an extra 0.8 °C, even with cuts in emissions from fossil fuels, scientists warn in an article in Nature Communications

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Research Finds Marine Reserves Sustain Broader Fishing Efforts

New research from Florida Institute of Technology finds that fish born in marine reserves where fishing is prohibited grow to be larger, healthier and more successful at reproduction.

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Running On Renewables: How Sure Can We Be About The Future?

A variety of models predict the role renewables will play in 2050, but some may be over-optimistic, and should be used with caution, say researchers.

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Researchers Develop New Method to Improve Crops

Technique using plant's own DNA could produce crops that are more resistant to drought and disease

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Caribou population decline not caused by over-harvesting by Indigenous groups

There are several reasons barren-ground caribou populations in Canada have declined more than 70 per cent over the past two decades, but too much hunting by Indigenous people is not one of them, a new University of Alberta-led study shows.

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Twenty-year partnership helping thousands in Ethiopia

A University of Saskatchewan delegation led by researcher Carol Henry has just returned from meetings in Ethiopia that celebrated the outcomes of a 20-year partnership between U of S and Hawassa University. Mary Buhr, dean of Agriculture and Bioresources, and Maurice Moloney, executive director and CEO of the U of S Global Institute for Food Security, were part of the delegation.

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Glaciers in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert Actually Shrank During the Last Ice Age

The simple story says that during the last ice age, temperatures were colder and ice sheets expanded around the planet. That may hold true for most of Europe and North America, but new research from the University of Washington tells a different story in the high-altitude, desert climates of Mongolia.

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Environmental Exposures Such as Air Pollution are More Determinant of Respiratory Health Than Inherited Genetics

Researchers have found strong evidence that environmental exposures, including air pollution, affect gene expressions associated with respiratory diseases much more than genetic ancestry.

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CO2 Sensor Network Shows Effects of Metro Growth

A team led by atmospheric scientists Logan Mitchell and John Lin report that suburban sprawl increases CO2 emissions more than similar population growth in a developed urban core.

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