Tag: Ecosystems
Coral reef scientists raise alarm as climate change decimates ocean ecosystems...
Sam Purkis, University of Miami
The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth....
Putting a dollar value on nature will give governments and businesses...
Linda J. Bilmes, Harvard Kennedy School
President Joe Biden calls climate change “the existential crisis of our time” and...
Plants thrive in a complex world by communicating, sharing resources and...
Beronda L. Montgomery, Michigan State University
As a species, humans are wired to collaborate. That’s why lockdowns and remote...
Invasive tawny crazy ants have an intense craving for calcium –...
Ryan Reihart, University of Dayton
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
In a recent study, my colleagues and I...
Fences have big effects on land and wildlife around the world...
Alex McInturff, University of California Santa Barbara; Christine Wilkinson, University of California, Berkeley, and Wenjing Xu, University of California, Berkeley
What is the most common...
How to reverse global wildlife declines by 2050
Michael Obersteiner, University of Oxford; David Leclère, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and Piero Visconti, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Species...
Protecting half of the planet is the best way to fight...
Greg Asner, Arizona State University
Humans are dismantling and disrupting natural ecosystems around the globe and changing Earth’s climate. Over the past 50 years, actions...
Re-creating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens...
Richard Bowen, Colorado State University and Alan Rudolph, Colorado State University
Nobody yet knows for sure the definitive origins of the newly recognized coronavirus now...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
