One way to cut back on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest – and help in the global fight against climate change – is to grant more of Brazil’s indigenous communities full property rights to tribal lands.
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New Study Warns: We Have Underestimated the Pace at Which the Arctic is Melting
Arctic sea ice is melting more quickly than once assumed.
Predicting Drought in the American West Just Got Much More Difficult
A new, USC-led study of more than 1,000 years of North American droughts and global conditions found that forecasting a lack of precipitation is rarely straightforward.
Exact Climate Data From the Past
Corals and cave carbonates are important archives of past climate.
New Science Behind Algae-based Flip-flops
As the world’s most popular shoe, flip-flops account for a troubling percentage of plastic waste that ends up in landfills, on seashores and in our oceans.
NAU Scientists Contribute to Critical Global Study Showing ‘Best of the Last’ Tropical Forests Urgently Need Protection to Mitigate Climate Change, Safeguard Human Well-being
The world’s “best of the last” tropical forests are at significant risk of being lost, according to a paper released today in Nature Ecology and Evolution.