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Amazonia is under threat. Biodiversity and redundancy loss in the Amazon biome severely limits the long-term provision of key ecosystem services in diverse spatial scales (local, regional, and global). Resilience thinking attempts to understand the mechanisms that ensure a system’s capacity to recover in the face of external pressures, trauma, or disturbances, as well as

Protecting biodiversity, either for its own sake or for its value to humanity, is a principal goal of conservation efforts worldwide. For this reason, many studies on the social science of resource management and governance seek to quantify biodiversity outcomes. Here, we focus on the International Forestry Resources and Institutions program to demonstrate some of

Both bailing out the failing airline and pushing on with HS2 will be disastrous for the environment, writes Prof Bill McGuire, while Isabella Stone says politicians must make it clear conserving the biosphere is in all our interests In his discussion of Flybe and HS2 (Growth versus green? The short-term view always prevails, Journal, 16

East Yorkshire councillors bemoan lack of national guidance and funding Ministers have been urged to step in to help families whose homes are at imminent risk of collapsing into the sea on the fastest-eroding coastline in northern Europe. Residents in the Yorkshire village of Skipsea were told this week that more than 20 homes were

Court confirms government’s contribution to the issue, but judges find they lack power to enforce climate policy decisions The ninth circuit court of appeals ordered dismissal of a lawsuit brought by 21 youth plaintiffs against the federal government over climate crisis, citing concerns about separation of powers. The case was brought against the government in

If Scotty from Marketing and his coal-fired peers really believed in the climate crisis, they’d be doing something about it The speed with which the conservative side of politics and the media has gone from assuring us climate change was not a problem, so we don’t need to worry about reducing emissions, to asserting that

Mayor’s pledge on air pollution to form part of vision for green new deal for London Sadiq Khan will promise to put London on a par with Scandinavian capitals by making it a carbon-neutral city by 2030 if he is re-elected as mayor of the capital later this year. The Labour politician’s pledge to tackle

Individual choices will not solve the climate crisis but ministers should not be encouraging flying It started in Sweden, where the term flygskam (flight shame) was coined in 2018 to describe the unease about flying experienced by environmentally conscious travellers. The hashtag #jagstannarpåmarken (which translates as #stayontheground) came into use around the same time, as