Stop spending public funds on carbon capture failure – researchers.
CCS? FFS Simon Pirani | 17th April 2023 | Comment Carbon Capture And Storage CCS Climate Investigations Centre Inflation Reduction Act Energy Editor’s Picks …
The message from Cruelty Free International to Musk is simple: ditch the animal tests and embrace non-animal methods if you want the Neuralink device to help human patients.
… animal tests and embrace non-animal methods. Biology Increasing evidence points towards … are still fundamental differences between the biology of humans and other animals that erode … already used widely to understand human brain biology and disease and test the effectiveness …
The first in a new series on biodiversity conservation offers a radical perspective on ecological crisis.
… a temptation to generalise from our evolved biology, from our apehood-ancestral origins. … cynicism and fatalism. Prisoners of our biology we may be to some degree but humanity … Richard Lewontin’s eloquence helps: “Biology is not physics, because organisms are …
The outcome of a case to protect the Los Cedros Reserve from mining will set a precedent for all future Rights of Nature cases in Ecuador.
Rights of Nature in Ecuador Rebekah Hayden | 6th November 2020 | News Ecuador Los Cedros Forest Mining Extractivism Rights Of Nature Editor’s Picks Reserva los Cedros. Photo: Nicola Peel The outcome …
A Constitutional Protection Action could protect the Rights of Nature over the economic rights of transnational companies in Ecuador's Intag Valley.
Sanctuary for life in Ecuador Rebekah Hayden | 25th September 2020 | News Rights Of Nature Ecuador Forest Mining BHP SolGold Latin America Copper The Harlequin Frog (Atelopus longirostris). Photo: …
The struggle to save the Los Cedros Forest Reserve in Ecuador from mining will set huge precedent for biodiversity protections.
Saving Los Cedros is 'case of the century' Rebekah Hayden | 26th November 2020 | News Los Cedros Mining Ecuador Rights Of Nature Forest Conservation Los Cedros Forest Reserve. Photo: Rainforest …
Weeds are destroying crops globally - but the real problem is Big Agriculture.
You reap what you sow Natalie Bennett | 14th April 2021 | Comment Food And Farming Editor’s Picks Soybean farming, Mato Grosso Weeds are destroying crops globally - but the real problem is Big …
Brazil has suffered its biggest ever industrial disaster, write Ana Luisa Naghettini & Geraldo Lopes. Breached and overflowing dams have released a massive slug of toxic muds and tailings from iron mining into the country's fifth largest river system that provides drinking water for downstream cities, destroying ecosystems in rivers and vast areas of biologically fragile ocean.
… or so." The Augusto Ruschi station of Marine Biology, established in Aracruz, Santa Cruz, …
A tiny fish has 'theory of mind'. So - Chris Packham asks in a new BBC series - what makes us humans so different from other animals?
… in turn has been credited with “inventing” biology, the scientific method and formal … City University in Japan, published in PLOS Biology . He says on the programme: “When we …
The first country in the world write the 'rights of nature' or 'Pachamama' into its constitution is now being decimated by mining companies, argues JOHN SEED of The Rainforest Information Centre. The people of Ecuador, their government and the international community need to work together to preserve the country's unique ecosystems
Why Ecuador's rich biodiversity is under threat from mining interests John Seed | 1st March 2018 Comment Ecuador Mining Biodiversity Rainforest Information Centre …
Africa is facing an unprecedented surge in road and railway building with 33 huge 'development corridors' planned that threaten 2,400 of the continent's protected wildlife areas, writes Bill Laurance. We must block the most destructive plans and limit avoidable impacts on natural areas - before it's too late.
… a paper published late last year in Current Biology , my colleagues and I assess the …
Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, has personally attacked eco-defender Carlos Zorrilla in TV broadcasts for resisting a vast new copper mine in a precious area of pristine cloud forest, and opposing the advance of oil exploration into the Amazon. Fearful for his life, Zorilla is now seeking international support for his, and his community's, battle for land, water and the natural world.
Letter from Ecuador - where defending nature and community is a crime Carlos Zorrilla | 25th March 2015 News Ecuador Mining Ecocide Forests Commons Natural World wood-lizard-cut.jpg Secuity guards at …
The hybrid organising model is formed from the DNA of its two parents – the structure and momentum traditions – which will ensure the success of its offspring.
… from systems theory as practised within biology, and the natural sciences more …
It’s time for the ocean to to lead the way in the fight against climate change.
A sea change in climate action Lisa Levin Natalya Gallo Bobbi-Jo Dobush | 11th December 2020 | News Climate Breakdown Oceans Paris Agreement Editor’s Picks killer-whales-cut.jpg It’s time for the …
Faced with a planetary emergency, is deep ecological transformation, a ‘megamorphosis’ of modern society, still a possibility?
… focused on the interaction between planetary biology, chemistry and geology. He says: “The … Capra emphasises that we need to refocus from biology and the study of single organisms to …
As China pursues a startling array of energy, mining, logging, agricultural, transport and other infrastructure projects on virtually every continent, it is having an unprecedented impact on the planet, writes William Laurance. It's not that China is any worse than historic colonial powers - the difference is in the sheer scale and pace of environmental destruction, and the total lack of oversight under which Chinese mega-corporations operate.
… BBVA Frontiers in Ecology and Conservation Biology Award for his efforts to promote …