To study the life of the humid forests, it is better to control the Internet. While studying the pictures attentively in 2005 of Mozambique in software Google Earth researchers discovered a virgin and uncharted forested zone. After some locations driven on the ground for three years, an expedition driven this autumn confirmed it: [...]

The study of old sediments of several thousand years reveals that plants considered as introduced by the man lived in the archipelago long before its arrival.

What happens to lemmings? In the seventies, a suicidal instinct so much was readily allocated them they died from exhaustion some years, to cross the Norwegian fiords in swimming. The simple effect of a cyclic overpopulation which ended up starving them. But for fifteen years, these demographic explosions practically ceased. According to jobs published in Nature [...]

When man and climate act together, consequences are sometimes dramatic. In India, on the islands of Sundarbans, near Bengladesh, seven fishermen were killed since the beginning of the year by tigers. The rise of the ocean Indian under the influence of climatic warming and dams on the Ganges have not much in [...]

It was known, but he does not feel pain in it to repeat it: the protection of mangrove swamps is necessary to preserve the peach. It is what conclude researchers having studied in detail the Bay of California, in Mexico. They tried to assess the economic value of mangrove swamps, true nurseries with fish. She [...]

On a football pitch, if each plays in his corner and speaks a different language, the team is not to win. Eleven researchers, emanating from eight international organisations of protection of nature, therefore undertook to collaborate to work out a common language. A lexicon which will allow, they hope for it, better one effectiveness of programmes [...]

To practice activism in sense advocated by Greenpeace is not a reliable activity. While this week in Santiago (Chile) the plenary assembly of the international whaling Committee opens, two ecological activists of the organisation were stopped on June 20th in Japan. They are accused of having hidden a cardboard containing some meat of whale [...]

723 million euro every year! It is what would bring back in Ireland the earthworm, asserts a study financed by the government, and aiming at establishing benefits and costs of biodiversity for the society. What very places a value on the red worm, it is his capacity to return the more fecund lands, [...]

Through a meeting with the makers of documentaries and writers Natacha Calestrémé and Michèle Decouste, leave to the discovery of the women and of the men who dedicate their life to the protection of biodiversity. Length: 103’. © Science Frontières