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Nature Geoscience, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01998-z Soil viruses greatly influence the carbon sequestration processes associated with anaerobic methane oxidation, according to analyses of carbon flows in paddy soil.

The Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) has opened multiple international funding opportunities for marine conservationists, researchers, educators, photographers, filmmakers, and storytellers dedicated to protecting sharks, rays, skates, and threatened marine ecosystems worldwide. Through its wide range of grants and fellowships, the Save Our Seas Foundation supports impactful projects focused on ma…

Multi-year La Niña (lasting over two years) is occurring more frequently and significantly affects global climate and ecosystems. Our study reveals a key biogeochemical feedback mechanism driven by phytoplankton that reshapes the evolution of multi-year La Niña.

“I think it’s over there, to the right, but the grounds are so big I’m not sure where it is exactly,” says Anna Massong, director of technical services at Sceaux City Hall, as we study a map beside the grand iron entrance gates of the Lakanal School.  Built in the... The post The French City That Champions Its Trees appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful .

Underwater beastie shows discerning moral judgment when picking off victims in this fun Norwegian action film As Greta Thunberg demonstrates, an eco-chastising feels somehow cleansing when it comes out of Scandinavia. Maybe it’s because of the idea that people there live in greater harmony with nature. It is splendidly showcased in the shape of Norway’s Sognefjord, the country’s largest fjord, in…

Most people have joyful memories of playing outside as children – and now wildlife charities are urging people to ‘rewild their inner child’ Climbing trees, squelching in mud, paddling in ponds or making dens in the woods – people’s memories of playing outside as children are often vivid and, a new poll has found, overwhelmingly positive, even those who remember falling in cowpats. Almost 90% of …

Wildlife officials said they found oiled birds after a pipe ruptured in East Los Angeles on May 22, 2026.

Warming is making Himalayan rivers more unstable, with potentially serious consequences downstream. The Himalayas do more than tower over Asia. They help store and release the water that feeds some of the continent’s most important rivers, supporting nearly 2 billion people from mountain valleys to densely populated plains. Now, a new study suggests that this [...]

Charter to be adopted along river’s entire catchment from Cambrian mountains to Chepstow and Bristol Channel The entire catchment of the River Wye has been formally recognised as a living ecosystem with intrinsic rights in a charter, a UK first that campaigners hope will help save the highly polluted river. The charter was celebrated at a community event at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival on Sun…

Over the course of 13 expeditions and other efforts between mid-2025 and mid-2026, scientists found hundreds of previously undiscovered creatures living under the waves

OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, Published online: 23 May 2026; doi:10.3844/ojbsci.2026.26.02.035 We conducted a multi-year (2020-2024) control-impact field study in a pine forest of the Moscow Region to assess whether off-road vehicle activity affects the fruiting of two ecologically important ec...

Sustainability issues related to livestock have been discussed primarily with an emphasis on their environmental effects without sufficient consideration for nutrition and other socio-economic factors. The purpose of this article review is to analyze the paper by Varijakshapanicker et al. (2019) that highlights the potential of livestock as a critical resource in enhancing the health of humans, f…

A revolutionary satellite network is enabling scientists to monitor wildlife behaviour from orbit in an effort to protect endangered species such as cheetahs, rhinos and elephants from poachers. Dubbed the "Internet of Animals", the Icarus system tracks animal movements on a global scale, allowing conservationists to identify when human intruders enter protected areas. Researchers at Okambara Ele…

Firefighters are racing to douse flames on Santa Rosa Island as experts express concern for survival of its unique habitat On the south-eastern corner of Santa Rosa Island lies a grove of a few thousand Torrey pine trees, some of them more than 250 years old . The only other place on earth where these gnarled pines exist is in San Diego county, but biologists classify the two groves as different …

DNA taken from elephant dung revealed that Angola’s elephants living at high elevations belong to a distinct genetic lineage connected to elephants in Namibia. For more than 10 years, conservation biologist Steve Boyes pursued reports of “ghost elephants,” nighttime giants said to live in a remote high-altitude wetland in eastern Angola. In 2024, a motion [...]

Scientific Reports, Published online: 23 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-49664-z Phytoplankton functional response to spatial and temporal differences before and after the regime shift of Caohai Lake, China

Với sự phát triển nhanh của công nghệ số và đẩy mạnh chuyển đổi số quốc gia, yêu cầu nâng cao chất lượng đội ngũ công chức, viên chức (CCVC) ngành Xây dựng ngày càng trở nên cấp thiết. Hoạt động đào tạo, bồi dưỡng truyền thống còn tồn tại nhiều hạn chế như thiếu tính cá nhân hóa, khó cập nhật nội dung mới và chưa khai thác hiệu quả các công nghệ số hiện đại. Bài báo này trình bày kết quả nghiên c…