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New report underlines multiple benefits but also new challenges to biodiversity-rich sites

An agreement in Copenhagen to fund reduced emissions from deforestation may generate multiple environmental and economic benefits if investments simultaneously target sites that are both carbon......

Mapping the Climate Change and Biodiversity Impacts of REDD – Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation

But the new report, published today in the journal Conservation Letters, also warns of challenges in countries such as Brazil and parts of East Africa unless safeguards are followed. This is b......

A sticky solution for identifying effective probiotics

Scientists have crystallised a protein that may help gut bacteria bind to the gastrointestinal tract. The protein could be used by probiotic producers to identify strains that are likely to be ......