The rats evicted from paradise

The rats evicted from paradise

From BBC Future Planet, 8 October 2020 by Sophie Hardach Palmyra had been an isolated and tranquil Pacific atoll, until a 20th-Century invasion of black rats arrived, setting the whole atoll’s ecology hurtling down a different path. By the end of...

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Food Justice Files

Food Justice Files

New Internationalist launches a one-year series dedicated to unpicking why hunger persists, 29th September 2020 This new reality for coastal communities across the Global South, was revealed by a study into micronutrients led by...

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Benefits from biodiversity

Benefits from biodiversity

From Nature Ecology and Evolution, 21 May 2020 by Joseph Aslin The role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning is well understood on the small scale of experimental studies, but has proved challenging to quantify on the scale of natural...

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