For decades, wildlife managers have clung to the notion of carrying capacity as if it were a law of nature — a neat number representing how many elephants a reserve can sustain. It is time we call ...

Faced with housing, water and food shortages and massive natural destruction, Indonesia is developing a five-year development plan that will become the country’s first low-carbon development ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The iconic Vembanad lake — the lifeline of the state’s backwater tourism — is operating far beyond its ecological limits. The lake’s recreational carrying capacity has exceeded by ...

Carrying capacity came from livestock management in the US in the early twentieth century, where calculating how many cattle a pasture could support before overgrazing was a matter of profit. But ...