Coastal Plain Is One of World’s “Bio” Hotspots
The Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund recognized the North American Coastal Plain, a more than 800,000-square-mile area that stretches from Florida to Maine, as the world’s 36th biodiversity hotspot. The organization is a joint initiative with French, European Union, Japanese and other interests focused on biodiversity conservation of the most biologically rich and threatened areas by non-governmental, private-sector and community groups.
First Salish Sea-wide shoreline armoring study shows cumulative effects on ecosystem
Impacts associated with shoreline armoring can scale up to have cumulative, large-scale effects on the characteristics of shorelines and the diversity of life they support, new research shows.
Study: humans have caused all the global warming since 1950
A new study has found that humans are responsible for virtually all of the observed global warming since the mid-20th century. It’s not a novel result – in fact, most global warming attribution studies have arrived at the same general result – but this study uses a new approach.
Coral bleaching hits 93% of Great Barrier Reef, Video
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering its worst coral bleaching in recorded history with 93 percent of the World Heritage site affected, scientists say as they reveal the phenomenon is also hitting the other side of the country.