Species defaunation, i.e., the extinction of animal species due to overhunting and habitat loss, has been identified in a study as a main trigger for the global biodiversity crisis.

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A fungus that lives in malaria-carrying mosquitoes could boost global efforts to control the disease, which kills about half a million people– mostly children under five– every year.

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New plant breeding technologies (NPBTs), including genetically modified and gene‐edited crops, offer large potentials for sustainable agricultural development and food security. A study by an agricultural economist of…

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Human impacts on biodiversity are increasingly being viewed as a possible cause of the current COVID-19 pandemic. The topic was addressed as part of a series of live interviews with experts on linkages between COVID-19…

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World-wide rice cultivation harms the climate since the rice fields discharge considerable amounts of methane. A Danish-German research collaboration may have found a solution to the large climate impact from the world's…

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In mountain regions, snow accumulates in the winters and melts in spring. Due to global warming, timing and the amount of melting water changes, which may have profound effects on irrigation in river basins and on water…

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Many countries benefit from ecosystem services provided outside their frontiers. However, we hardly know how and where such ecosystem service flows occur. A new study evaluates and quantifies different ecosystem service…

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This year, everyone on the planet was plunged into a brave new world, as the coronavirus pandemic swept the globe in a matter of weeks. An ally in the battle to contain this and future epidemics could come, not from…

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A new and easy-to-handle technology allows for genomic sequencing of fish diseases in fish farms. Scientists headed by the international research centre WorldFish have developed this novel technique which enables tracing…

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The accumulation of carcinogenic arsenic in rice, the world’s main staple crop, represents a health threat to millions of people. For the first time, scientists have systematically investigated under which conditions,…

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