Australia needs to trust Aboriginal people and their knowledge of country and bushfires as they can help solve the environmental crisis that has seen the fastest rate of biodiversity loss on Earth, says Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher, in the University of Melbourne’s key annual address, the Narrm Oration.
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NOAA Strategy Addresses Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease
NOAA today unveiled a new strategy for the response to stony coral tissue loss disease, a disease that is spreading throughout the Atlantic and Caribbean region and may pose a threat to the Indo-Pacific region.
It’s Not too Late to Save 102 Species at Risk of Extinction
The Fraser River estuary in British Columbia is home to 102 species at risk of extinction. A new study says it’s not too late to save these species if action is taken now.
California Needs Policies to Protect Communities Moving to Renewable Energy
In 2018, California laid out an ambitious goal to transform the state’s energy system. A bill called SB 100 mandated that utility companies generate all of their electric power using zero-emission energy sources by 2045.
Strengthening the Climate Change Scenario Framework
The scenario framework contains a set of scenarios about how society may evolve in the future ̶ so-called Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) ̶ and defines different levels of climate change known as Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs).
UCLA Study of Threatened Desert Tortoises Offers New Conservation Strategy
In Nevada’s dry Ivanpah Valley, just southeast of Las Vegas, a massive unintended experiment in animal conservation has revealed an unexpected result.
