BRI announces the publication of the scientific paper Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining in the January 28 issue of Nature Communications. In this new study, an international team of researchers show that illegal gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon is causing exceptionally high levels of [...]
BRI's Climate Change program director Tim Tear co-authored the report below, published through The Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI). The Science Working Group of the SMI Nature-Based Solutions Taskforce published the paper which focuses on technical advances in assessing natural climate solutions for global carbon markets. "This paper argues that recent advances in scientific understanding [...]
Both BRI and Avinet are part of a group of sponsors for the Northeast Bat Working Group Annual Meeting taking place in Manchester, NH, January 12th-15th 2022. "The Northeast Bat Working Group (NEBWG) is comprised of individuals representing a number of organizations, companies, and government entities. Members include many of the leading bat researchers [...]
BRI's Climate Change Program Director Tim Tear co-authored a scientific paper on savanna fire management that was published in the December issue of the journal One Earth. This scientific paper has been featured in a new story by Cool Green Science (CGS), the conservation science blog of The Nature Conservancy, entitled Savanna Fire [...]
The article, , arose from the 2020 State of The Science Workshop on Wildlife and Offshore Wind Energy, hosted by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). "A workgroup of the 2020 State of the Science Workshop on Wildlife and Offshore Wind Energy identified studies for the next five years to [...]
BRI’s waterbird & fisheries specialist Bill Hanson assisted in the rescue of an iced-in loon on Tacoma Lake in Manmouth, ME. The loon was trapped in 4 inch ice, a quarter mile out. Rescued by a team made up of Bill and Monmouth firefighters on January 2nd, the loon was transported to Avian Haven [...]
Determining Sources of Mercury Contamination within Terrestrial Habitats in the Adirondack Park of New York State, a report featuring BRI's Songbird Program and songbird research, funded by The Northeastern States Research Cooperative, focuses on how habitat, climate, and food chain influences mercury exposure across New York State. The Northeastern States Research Cooperative is a competitive [...]
Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) announces the publication of the scientific paper Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa’s rangelands and fill Protected Area funding gaps in the December issue of the journal One Earth (Open Access online). The new study builds on a history of collaborative and independent research [...]
BRI's eider research is highlighted in a new article by Chris Ingram featured in Wildfowl Magazine. The article details research conducted by Environment Canada- with cooperators from BRI, state wildlife agencies, university researchers, and others- intended to better understand why the Atlantic population of common eider continues to decline. Lucas Savoy, BRI's Deputy Director [...]
As wind energy development increases worldwide, hundreds of thousands of bat fatalities are estimated to occur due to collisions with terrestrial wind energy facilities in North America. “Turbine attraction is a leading hypothesis for high observed fatality rates, particularly in migratory tree bats…[and] while fatality rates vary among sites, the estimated cumulative mortality is [...]
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