Biotropica

As the Greek economy maintains its slide towards default and the global climate continues to change for the worse, one organisation, writing in Biotropica, has come up with some novel answers to both problems.

Survival in the depths of the tropical rainforest not only depends on a species’ ability to defend itself, but can be reliant on the type of cooperation researchers have discovered between ants and tropical trees, reports Biotropica.

Biotropica assess Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT initiative which aims to prevent millions of tons of carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere by not drilling for oil in the Amazon rainforest.