Global study reveals the common ingredients behind conservation success: valuing local knowledge alongside science; community role in decision-making; and management adapting to local social and environmental conditions.

Wireless charging has already transformed how people power phones, wearables and even electric vehicles. The next leap is advancing wireless technologies to not merely deliver electrical energy, but to enable direct non-electrical outputs, such as optical, thermal and mechanical energy, directly according to actual needs, building an energy delivery network as flexible and efficient as the internet. To drive this transformation, researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have conducted a groundbreaking study that sets out a technical roadmap for “wireless energy internet”, guiding the industry from “wireless power transfer” toward direct “wireless energy conversion”.

To prevent continued ecosystem decline of Yosemite National Park’s iconic meadows, scientists planted 40,000 native sedge seedlings in Tuolumne Meadows and monitored recovery.

Indonesia's coral reefs face an ecological crisis. Prof. Dr. Ir. Jamaluddin Jompa, Rector of Hasanuddin University, has spent more than three decades understanding reef decline and turning science into solutions. A marine ecologist and coral-reef restoration pioneer, he bridges fundamental science, conservation policy, and communities reliant on healthy oceans. Today, he’s scaling that work with cutting-edge technologies like AI, molecular genetics (eDNA), and precision engineering, aimed at national resilience and sustainable development. 

For decades, fisheries managers have struggled to restore wild populations of lake trout recruitment across the Great Lakes region, with limited success. Returning this species to its former abundance is hampered by overfishing, sea lamprey predation, invasive species, and habitat alterations. A potential barrier to recovery is Thiamine Deficiency Complex (TDC), a disorder caused by insufficient vitamin B1, or thiamine. This syndrome is considered a major threat to conservation and restoration efforts widely.

TDC can cause severe behavioral and neurological abnormalities and extremely high mortality of newly hatched fish. It is typically observed in hatcheries that rear salmon and trout egg obtained from wild populations, and hatchery staff can mitigate its effects using thiamine treatments.

Now, scientists from SUNY Brockport, the University of Vermont (UVM), and Oregon State University have conducted the first study to examine whether embryos can acquire thiamine naturally in their wild environment. The study, published in Scientific Reports and funded by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, found that lake trout embryos developing in Lake Champlain accumulated substantial amounts of thiamine, while paired embryos reared under controlled laboratory conditions did not show the same increase. 

The findings provide new insight into how the effects of thiamine deficiency may play out differently in the wild than in hatcheries.