- Professor of Sustainability, Bangor University
Ecosystems can behave surprisingly like magnets, say scientists.
We ran computer programs that simulate ecosystems 70,000 times and the results are very worrying.
New research suggests 75% of the rainforest has become less resilient to stress since the early 2000s.
In east Asian countries, past disease outbreaks have made face masks part of everyday life – but the social context supporting such behaviour isn’t present in the UK.
Our findings have worrying implications for the functioning of our planet.
The impact of deforestation for oil palm plantations is well known – and now research has found the replanting process could be additional harm to biodiversity.
Conservationists scaled the sheer cliffs of Mount Lico as part of wider effort to build the case for the protection of Mozambique’s mountain forests.
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