The Value of Words + Pictures
For years the idea that nature and tourism are linked has been kept largely—and unhelpfully— confined to a series of studies on wildlife watching or scuba diving and filed under…
Sustainability
Linking Birds, Farmer Attitudes and Conservation
I walked along a little path when suddenly the ground in front of me came alive in a whir of feathers. I reflexively jumped back as 20 California quail flushed…
The Main Cause of Global Water Scarcity? It’s Us.
When it comes to global water scarcity, the primary cause isn’t climate change: it’s us. New research shows that by 2050, more than 70 percent of watersheds around the world…
Could Spider Silk Become a Natural Replacement for Plastic?
In the hierarchy of anecdotal strength, very little beats steel or Kevlar. And while they’re strong, they can’t stretch. Then there’s spider silk. Sure, a strand might break in a…
The (Fishery-Monitoring) Cameras Never Blink –
New Fish Tech to Help Manage Fisheries for Sustainability Gets a Greenlight These days, most headlines about the world’s fisheries are heavy on a vocabulary of loss and resignation. There’s…
NatureNet Science Research Update: Nanotechnology –
Conservancy NatureNet Science Fellow Mingliang Zhang recently published a paper in Nature Nanotechnology that marks an important step toward solving one of the challenges facing scientists working on next-generation smart…
Progress in the Search for Better Battery Tech –
Update on the NatureNet Science Fellows: Won-Hee Ryu A new paper by Conservancy NatureNet Science Fellow Won-Hee Ryu may ultimately help scientists overcome one of the most intractable technological obstacles…
R&D for a Future Powered by Clean Energy
Tungsten trisulfide. It sounds like something straight out of Tony Stark’s fictional lab, but fortunately for the future of grid-scale energy storage, it’s very real. As described in a recent…
The Path to Sustainable Fisheries is Paved with Data
“If it doesn’t get measured, it doesn’t get managed.” If the old adage is true for business, then it’s doubly true for global fish stocks. In fact, of the more…
A Roadmap for Reducing the Climate Impacts of U.S. Beef
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the U.S. beef industry could be reduced by up to 30 percent with the full adoption of selected mitigation measures, especially involving management practices. The…