Ecology and Conservation
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In recent years Ash trees have been decimated by ash dieback disease, now that scientists have sequenced their genome conservations…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Under funded and under resourced conservationists often work thankless hours in difficult conditions to protect our planets jewels, but now…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Scientists now have the knowledge and the tools they need to create, and deliver, Doomsday genes which can selectively target…
Wanted: A machine that can tell the difference between Tuna and Turtles Conservationists are increasingly turning to technology to help them protect Earth’s valuable bounty…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Smile. You won’t find these faces in the shops looking for deals… Creating new algorithms that identify our friends…
What type of tree is that anyway? Cornell is creating a catalogue for Nature Engineers from Caltech have developed a method that uses data from…
Australia trials search and rescue drones to help protect people – and sharks Although the chance of dying from a shark attack in your lifetime…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Tuna becomes the world’s first fish to get its own blockchain to track it’s provenance from net to plate. Most people…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Bleaching and new invasive species like the Crown of Thorns wreak havoc on the Barrier Reef, but technology is helping conservationists…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Coral reefs take millennia to mature and only years to destroy, now technology is coming to their rescue. Even…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This might complicate our which came first question… There have been five mass extinction events since the Earth formed,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When are killer robots a good thing? When they’re saving the Earth. Where there are robots there’s always inevitably…
