University of Sheffield researchers found more than half of 250-plus UK residents surveyed would welcome Hermann's tortoises and bee-eaters in local parks. For park managers planning refuges for heat-stressed species, public resistance among those asked was weaker than the researchers expected.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence45
Cambridge and Sheffield researchers linked restoration at nearly 130,000 African sites to changes in tree loss up to 10 kilometers outside project boundaries. Accounting that stops at a project's edge can miss an effect almost as large as the one it measures, in either direction.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives35
- Confidence55
Ninety-two percent of cafe customers surveyed could not tell whether a cup was already costing them money, and the behavioural case for a mandated charge rests on a field experiment in three university cafes.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
A Leeds-led team sequenced 363 birds and 51 shared food and water resources at 12 farmland sites, and found the more virulent Type A strain over twice as prevalent in birds feeding at dense stations as at wild seed.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives48
- Confidence62
A Nature study reports grass production in Kruger National Park rose 28% between 1989 and 2021, with rising CO2 the only explanation that fits. C4 grasses were assumed to be indifferent.
Reality
- Evidence82
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives42
- Confidence68