While humans demand plants and animals as resources, sometimes it's their environment that holds value. Africa provides examples of forest land lost to agriculture, resulting in a loss of biodiversity. Agriculture and aquaculture replace coastal mangroves around the world, and urbanization, too, destr...
Vietnam is also highly vulnerable to rising sea levels and climate change, particularly in the low-lying Mekong Delta. Mangroves protect coastal regions against tidal waves and storm surges; they are vital fish nursery grounds; they provide timber, honey and other products; and they ...
It’s a fair bet that many of these buildings will not be designed to conserve energy and that they’ll be around, using energy inefficiently, for several decades. The good news is that we know how to build green buildings—as long as we’re willing to pay a Green Premium. An ...
About a year ago, Tencentmade a pledge to support biodiversityfollowing our participation at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, COP15, where policymakers made an ambitious plan to conserve 30 percent of the world’s land and oceans by 2030. The need to act fast is pressing. A report ...
Daunting in particular because in one sense it is already too late. “It’s cheaper, of course, to conserve ecosystems, or make sure they don’t degrade,” says Christophersen. “But we’re at a stage now where conservation is no longer enough. We also need to heavily invest...
Conserve and restore forests and coastal and marine ecosystems| According toThe Blue Carbon Initiative, “Blue carbon is the carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems…[such as] mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses… When degraded or destroyed, these ecosystems emit the carbon they have stor...
How does contour plowing conserve soil? How does agriculture cause soil pollution? How does mining cause erosion? What are the consequences of gully erosion? How does biodiversity loss affect land and water? How do mangroves prevent erosion? How can crop rotation help maintain the fertility of so...
Says Johnston, “Our ultimate goal is to use the full power of Salesforce to help protect ocean health. We do that through protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems, like mangroves. And the Salesforce platform can mobilize others to invest in the protection of those ecosystems as well.”...
This study aimed to describe the composition of mollusk assemblages in subtropical Brazilian mangroves with different levels of urbanization in their watersheds. Mangroves are important ecosystems, which are vanishing worldwide due to human impacts. The knowledge about the consequences of human pressure ...
Mainmahla Islandis one of the most unique and incredible places to have marvelous wildlife experiences in Myanmar. It is located in the southern Ayeyarwaddy Delta, and is surrounded by mangroves and forests. This unique environment nurtures many different fascinating animals. These include: ...