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- Economic models provide insights into global sustainability challenges
- World's challenges demand science changes -- and fast, experts say
- Amphibian chytrid fungus reaches Madagascar
- Team approach boosts human and environmental wellbeing, researcher says
- Suspended soils maintain rainforest ecosystems, says researcher
- Forest tree seeds stored in the Svalbard seed vault
- Climate-warmed leaves change lake ecosystems
| Economic models provide insights into global sustainability challenges Posted: 26 Feb 2015 12:46 PM PST Using models that blend global economics, geography, ecology and environmental sciences is essential to understanding how changes in trade and natural systems in one part of the world affect those in another, a review concludes. |
| World's challenges demand science changes -- and fast, experts say Posted: 26 Feb 2015 11:49 AM PST The world has little use -- and precious little time -- for detached experts. A group of scientists -- each of them experts -- makes a compelling case that the growing global challenges has rendered sharply segregated expertise obsolete. Disciplinary approaches to crises like air pollution, climate change, food insecurity, and energy and water shortages, are not only ineffective, but also making many of these crises worse. |
| Amphibian chytrid fungus reaches Madagascar Posted: 26 Feb 2015 09:24 AM PST The chytrid fungus, which is fatal to amphibians, has been detected in Madagascar for the first time. This means that the chytridiomycosis pandemic has now reached a biodiversity hotspot. Researchers are therefore proposing an emergency plan. This includes monitoring the spread of the pathogenic fungus, building amphibian breeding stations and developing probiotic treatments, say the scientists. |
| Team approach boosts human and environmental wellbeing, researcher says Posted: 26 Feb 2015 07:16 AM PST Even seemingly intractable problems such as the antibiotic crisis and the obesity epidemic could be resolved by treating human health and society as an integral part of an ecosystem, researchers say. "The problem now faced is that ecosystems have been plundered in such an anthropocentric fashion that their sustainability is precarious and our health with it," one author states. |
| Suspended soils maintain rainforest ecosystems, says researcher Posted: 26 Feb 2015 05:48 AM PST The bird's nest fern, a plant commonly found in many of our homes, has a critical place in maintaining the biodiversity and the ecosystems of the world's rainforests, researchers say. |
| Forest tree seeds stored in the Svalbard seed vault Posted: 26 Feb 2015 05:47 AM PST A new method for the conservation of the genetic diversity of forest trees will see its launch on 26 February 2015, as forest tree seeds are for the first time stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Spitsbergen Island, protected by permafrost. Conserving the genetic resources of forest trees is part of the mandate of the Natural Resources Institute Finland. |
| Climate-warmed leaves change lake ecosystems Posted: 25 Feb 2015 06:43 AM PST Rising soil temperatures significantly affect autumn leaves and consequently the food web, appearance and biochemical makeup of the lakes and ponds those leaves fall into, a new study finds. |
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