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Understanding how corals turn sunscreen into toxins could help save reefs
When corals and sea anemones absorb oxybenzone, their cells turn it into phototoxins, molecules that are harmless in the dark but become toxic under sunlight.
Saving Madagascar’s critically endangered singing lemurs
Yet like all other lemurs, indris are critically endangered and are losing out to habitat loss and poaching.
Intensive agriculture and climate change are threatening insects worldwide
The environmental harms of high-intensity agriculture present a challenge as we try to keep up with food demands.
Poachers claim the lives of endangered Sumatran tigers
Deforestation and poaching mean the tigers could end up extinct like their Javan and Balinese counterparts.
Scientists use 3D printing to help save embattled coral reefs
Creating 3D-printed coral alternatives is less labor-intensive than other restoration methods.
Hundreds of mammalian species are ‘waiting to be discovered’ by science
Only a tenth, if that, of species on the planet have been formally described by scientists, it is widely believed.