Dozens of species have been coaxed back from oblivion, with fenced havens, conserved habitat, islands and feral predator control vital.
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At least 115 of Indonesia’s islands will be underwater due to a combination of sea level rise and land subsidence. What do these estimates mean to Indonesia’s future as an archipelagic state?
Island states are often dependent on expensive imported fossil fuels for their power. Ocean thermal energy conversion plants could provide constant power – if technical issues can be overcome.
If all, or even most, offspring of the survivors are shy, we could be facing an introduced pest population that is incredibly difficult to remove.
Did people settle these islands by traveling north from South America, or in the other direction? Reanalyzing data from artifacts discovered decades ago provides a definitive answer.
Big storms with lots of flooding, like hurricanes Dorian and Maria, actually restore the Caribbean’s delicate balance between native and nonnative fish species, new research finds.
A series of new studies sheds light on the population crash and extinction of the giant birds, lemurs and more that roamed the island until around A.D. 700-1000.
Even before the British billionaire invested US$1 billion in making the region ‘climate-smart,’ Jamaica, Barbados and Dominica were pioneering a renewable energy boom in the Caribbean.
Despite its global importance, the rainy ‘Maritime Continent’ around Indonesia is hard to capture using global climate models. But fear not - new research shows how to improve our forecasts.
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Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Associate professor, University of Canberra
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Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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PhD candidate, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Renewable Energy & Energy Management, Coventry University
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Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Australian National University
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Posdoctoral Researcher in Local Energy Systems, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Atmospheric Science, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, National University of Ireland Maynooth
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Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Geosciences, UMass Amherst
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Professor, Unit Leader, North Carolina State University
