Ecology, The Environment and Conservation

This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.

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Palm Oil Plantations Change the Social Behaviour of Macaques

In many parts of Southeast Asia, rainforest is being replaced by palm oil plantations. This is causing far-reaching problems for the natural world, for example for southern pig-tailed macaques, a…

Could wider use of gene reserves protect rare species?

UK landowners and conservationists welcome wider-spread use of Gene Conservation Units (GCUs) to help protect some of the rarest plants and insects, research at the University of York has shown….

Saving energy – conserving resources

Fraunhofer IFAM develops concept for energy-efficient debinding processes … The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in Dresden is constantly working on optimizing its processes. Particularly in…

Tiny plastic particles in the environment: Nanoplastics

– an underestimated problem? The images leave no one cold: giant vortices of floating plastic trash in the world’s oceans with sometimes devastating consequences for their inhabitants – the sobering…

Microplastics found in Europe’s largest ice cap

In a recent article in Sustainability, scientists from Reykjavik University (RU), the University of Gothenburg, and the Icelandic Meteorological Office describe their finding of microplastic in a remote and pristine…

Microplastics in corals

How plastic affects life in the ocean is one of the pressing questions in marine research. A new study by the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) looks at…

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