What is the best way to conserve US national parks in a climate-altered future? One answer is connecting parks and other public lands, so plants and animals can shift their ranges.
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Mangrove forests along the world’s tropical and subtropical coasts store enormous quantities of ‘blue’ carbon – especially in river delta zones, where soil builds up quickly.
Words matter because they influence the way we understand environmental problems and shape their solutions.
There are ways to reduce the risk of protests like France’s yellow vests movement.
From eating less meat to foregoing flying, individual obligations make up our understanding of how to fight climate change, letting polluters off the hook and stifling real change.
New energy to advocate for planetary health could be unleashed through career guidance that prepares future generations for climate change while inspiring them to envision a meaningful future.
Plankton in the world’s oldest and deepest lake are being disrupted by exceptionally warm waters.
Other industries plan for the future, but the tourism industry is acting as if responses to climate change will leave it untouched.
City planners and politicians have pitched carbon emission reduction as an individual choice but this leads to green gentrification and fails to make broad changes. We need a new guiding philosophy.
Climate change threatens to cause mass extinctions – but how, exactly? New research suggests male fertility may be the weakest link.
Canada’s top-down approach to designing its climate policy has failed. It needs to find ways to engage with individuals.
The microbes living in the soils around plant roots can help plants deal with a variety of stresses.
Many of the crop plants that feed us waste 20 percent of their energy, especially in hot weather. Plant geneticists prove that capturing this energy could boost crop yields by up to 40 percent.
As 2019 dawns, a worldwide circular economy could be created through international trade and trade agreements like the one that could be forged between Canada and the U.K., post-Brexit.
We asked climate researchers to peer through the smog and highlight some positive stories from 2018.
From the curious to the serious – a bird’s eye view of the unique ways in which The Conversation covers the world.
Fixes for small pieces of massive problems show that overarching crises may be less hopeless than they appear.
From bird songs to wind patterns, sound is a key but often underappreciated element of natural places. Learning how to listen to nature can alert us to changes in the environment before we see them.
Dystopian fiction is popular, but presenting positive visions of the future in popular culture could help people embrace solutions.
Millions of people worldwide are either indifferent to a carbon tax or opposed. If citizens were motivated by potential carbon dividends, maybe politicians would finally take action on climate change.
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