Planet Earth has lost one tenth of its area of wilderness since 1993, equivalent to half of Australia in size, new research reveals.
Spending time in woodland regulates human emotions and the heart helping to restore a healthy balance when compared to time in urban environments, according to new research.
The worldwide reliance on burning fossil fuels to create energy could be phased out in a decade, according to an article published by a major energy think tank in the UK.
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most celebrated ecosystems on Earth - and it's dying. Months of extreme heat have turned thousands of miles of pristine habitat into an endless watery graveyard. This year's coral bleaching event comes as a warning. If we don't bring carbon emissions down fast, the Great Barrier Reef will not survive the century.
"It's a practical possibility," says biologist E.O. Wilson, and it could save 80 to 90 percent of all species on Earth.
This week the amazing story of how Michael Fishbach saved a humpback whale that was entangled in a mesh of netting has taken the online community by storm. The
Understanding and managing how humans and nature sustainably coexist is now so sweeping and lightning fast that it’s spawned a new concept:
Soil depletion hastened the collapse of at least one society, the Greeks, and contributed to economic hardship as recently as the last century in the Great Plains of the United States. With climate change and population growth affecting the services provided by soil, a team of scientists say more attention should be paid to protecting and rejuvenating soil. Strategies for doing so include refocusing and boosting research, and communicating its importance to the public.
Elephants, dolphins, primates and now bats have been shown to form human-like friendships.
