NATURE
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What drives deforestation — and how can we stop it?
- By NewHampshireDigitalNews.com
- . April 5, 2024
This summer, dangerous heatwaves have shattered records around the world. The extreme temperatures would be “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, according to an ever-growing
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As coffee demand grows, farmers work to deliver a sustainable brew
- By NewHampshireDigitalNews.com
- . April 2, 2024
For two decades, Conservation International has worked with Starbucks to support responsible coffee farming, protect biodiversity and reduce the coffee industry’s impacts on climate through
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New data shows loss in Earth’s vital carbon sinks — and reasons for hope
- By NewHampshireDigitalNews.com
- . March 30, 2024
Earth has lost 2 billion metric tons of “irrecoverable carbon” since 2018 — an amount greater than the United States’ annual greenhouse gas emissions. That’s
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Home sweet home for Madagascar’s lemurs?
- By NewHampshireDigitalNews.com
- . March 27, 2024
This post was updated on October 2, 2019. Lemurs are making themselves at home in Madagascar’s cacao and vanilla plantations, a new study finds. New
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One-fifth of Mekong River fish face extinction
- By NewHampshireDigitalNews.com
- . March 24, 2024
Unsustainable development has pushed one-fifth of the fish in the Mekong River — the lifeblood of Southeast Asia — to near extinction, according to a
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Biologist’s keen eye spots (another) new species in the Pacific
- By NewHampshireDigitalNews.com
- . March 21, 2024
Diving in the waters of Samoa, Mark Erdmann watched as a haze of colorful little fish — each no bigger than a raisin — hovered
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In hottest year on record, nature is a key climate ally
- By NewHampshireDigitalNews.com
- . March 18, 2024
It’s off the charts: 2023 has been the hottest year on record by a wide margin. Across the world, skyrocketing temperatures fueled climate-induced disasters — leaving
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Partnerships and communities drive nature conservation
- By NewHampshireDigitalNews.com
- . March 15, 2024
Nature is in crisis: More than 1 million animal and plant species are at risk of extinction. And critical ecosystems — like forests that absorb
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For Indigenous peoples, pandemic poses unique risks
- By NewHampshireDigitalNews.com
- . March 12, 2024
For the Kankanaey-Igorot indigenous people of the Philippines, closing off their community to the outside world is an annual tradition known as ubaya — a
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For these women, sustainable business is buzzing
- By NewHampshireDigitalNews.com
- . March 9, 2024
Industrious and indispensable, bees are nature’s “essential workers.” Their pollination powers entire ecosystems and food systems — with more than 75 percent of the world’s