Destroying forests, draining wetlands, and reshaping land can increase disease risk by changing how people and wildlife ...

New research carried out in Colombia by the University of Cambridge suggests that local surveys assessing the effect of land clearances on biodiversity may be underestimating the impact by as much as ...

Changes to land use can directly heighten the risk of diseases spreading from animals to humans, new University of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Warming temperatures at night combined with habitat ...

While a wealth of nutrient export models exists, a knowledge gap persists regarding how climate and land-use changes specifically drive dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) export in subtropical ...

New research looks at carbon dioxide removal—where carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored—and finds that ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler Mongabay recently launched the Australian Biodiversity Special Reporting Project, which will produce ...