Researchers at Oxford University, together with and international colleagues, have discovered jet stream patterns that could affect up to a quarter of global food production. In a new study published today in Nature […]
Fifty years ago, Terry Tickhill Terrel was an undergraduate at The Ohio State University, majoring in chemistry, when she realized she didn’t want to spend her life in a laboratory. Tickhill Terrel […]
Trophy hunting shouldn’t be banned, but instead it should be better regulated to ensure funds generated from permits are invested back into local conservation efforts, according to new research. Banning trophy hunting […]
Why Elephants Rarely Get Cancer A Potential Mechanism Identified That May Be Key to Cancer Resistance SALT LAKE CITY—Why elephants rarely get cancer is a mystery that has stumped scientists for […]
The 7R Future Leadership Institute has been following Belgian Floris Buter from the Virunga National Park on a week long field trip in Africa, in order to gather topography data for a hydro-power project. The […]
A scientific expedition to the Tibesti Mountains led by Dr. Stefan Kröpelin of the University of Cologne’s Africa Research Unit has returned to Cologne. The multidisciplinary research team explored the two highest […]
A new version of vegetationmap4africa makes it easier to select species for agroforestry and land restoration via web, smart phone and Google Earth interfaces with a high resolution map. The map is […]
Researchers from CSIRO and Imperial College London have assessed how widespread the threat of plastic is for the world’s seabirds and found the majority of species have plastic in their gut. The […]
A new and more dangerous phase of impacts on the world’s remaining tropical forests is emerging, threatening to simplify the world’s most diverse ecosystem including mass species loss, according to new UCL-led […]
As part of a broad effort to study the environmental and societal effects of climate change, NASA has begun a multi-year field campaign to investigate ecological impacts of the rapidly changing climate […]
Building dams and dikes is usually considered the most efficient means of reducing the risk of flooding in river deltas. But this isn’t entirely true, claims Prof Stijn Temmerman (UAntwerp) in the […]
Göttingen scientists call on IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) to recognise impacts of tree plantation establishment. Deforestation of natural tropical forests for the establishment of oil palm, rubber and cacao plantations […]
The build-up and subsequent release of warm, stagnant water from the deep Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas played a role in ending the last Ice Age within the Arctic region, according to […]
Nature is on the move. As the impacts of climate change reveal themselves, species and ecosystems are moving in response. This poses a fundamental challenge to conservation organizations–how do you conserve something […]
One of the more recent members of The 7R Future Leadership Institute is Mr. Teun Depreeuw. Teun Depreeuw is founder and owner of Muurtuin.be, a company specialized in designing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining vertical gardens. Click the picture to read more.
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