All posts tagged with ecosystems
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-(Natural News) The results of a water test in South Africa revealed the last things that a person would want in their tap water. Researchers from the University of South Africa (Unisa) found heroin, cocaine, and traces of other drugs in wastewater collected from a provincial treatment plant in Gauteng. The team presented their findings […]
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-(Natural News) Conservation of tropical forests take time, effort, and ultimately money. According to a study published in Nature Communications, efforts to protect tropical forests in Southeast Asia may fail due to low financial incentives. The study, led by researchers from the University of East Anglia, found that strategies developed to protect tropical forests such as a carbon finance scheme may not […]
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-(Natural News) The amount of plastic pollution in our oceans is set to triple over the next seven years, according to a report from the U.K. Government Office for Science titled Future of the Sea, Plastic consumption is only expected to grow as recycling efforts fail to keep up with the problem. The report states: […]
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-(Natural News) In a bid to protect its prime tourist destinations, the Thai government has decided to enforce stricter measures in these areas, in particular, banning “unfriendly activities” to prevent further damage to the environment and marine wildlife. The ban, which will take effect in July, will cover Koh Samui, Koh Tao, and Koh Phangan in […]
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-(Natural News) The Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) reports that a worrisome amount of plastic waste is accumulating in the “once-pristine European Arctic.” An NPI study revealed that “plastic in all sizes” is now scattered all over the Norwegian Arctic and in the Svalbard islands, an archipelago situated between Norway’s mainland and the North Pole, one of the planet’s northernmost […]
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Preserving riverside forests by connecting fragmented habitats may conserve biodiversity, ecosystems
-(Natural News) Aside from protecting various endangered species, the conservation of river-floodplain ecosystems is another challenge that experts are trying to address in the 21st century. According to a group of researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Japan, landscape genetics can be used to help sustain threatened ecosystems. The high soil moisture in forests […] -
-(Natural News) The hard Left loves its environmental issues but it also loves open borders and unlimited immigration — legal or otherwise (kind of like the RINOs in Washington, D.C., and their corporate donor masters). So it will be interesting to see how many of them respond to the findings of a new lawsuit that […]
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-(Natural News) The idea of nutrient loss is a common but troublesome problem that plagues all kinds of soils. Efforts have been made by a number of institutions to combat this issue, to varying degrees of success. Yet, as a team of researchers has demonstrated, the answer could very well lie in a tool widely […]
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-(Natural News) Plastics have long been known to pose a threat to sea life. But now tiny bits of toxic microplastics are threatening to choke and poison many of the ocean’s gentlest giants, warned articles in EcoWatch and The Guardian. Published in the Trends in Ecology and Evolution journal, a new study took a look at the […]
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-(Natural News) Sir David Attenborough, an English veteran broadcaster and naturalist who recently made a documentary on plastic and its harmful effects on the environment, said that the Earth’s oceans are slowly becoming a toxic depository due to the evil deeds of the planet’s dwellers. Describing one scene from the documentary, Attenborough said, “In it, […]
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