biodiversity

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

In Virunga National Park, rangers are on the frontlines — playing a critical role to contain the surging virus while coping with an upsurge in conflict-related violence.

Mangrove forests, once considered one of the world's most threatened coastal ecosystems, are showing signs of recovery worldwide, according to new research from Tulane University that finds decades of losses largely offset by regrowth and expansion.The study, based on four decades of satellite data and published in the journal Science, finds that mangrove forests worldwide are no longer in net de…

As Earth's oceans warm, microscopic marine organisms are experiencing increasing stress due to a lack of vital nutrients. A new study combining NASA satellite observations, ocean surveys, and genetic testing on marine microorganisms suggests that warming ocean waters are limiting nutrient availability across much of the global ocean, with the potential to reshape marine ecosystems.

Sweden’s celebrated wolverine recovery program is losing momentum, raising concerns about the future of one of the world’s most famous conservation success stories. A conservation program once praised as a global model for helping people and wildlife coexist may be losing its effectiveness because of decades of inadequate government support, according to new research. In [...]

Wide-ranging research suggests that as temperatures increase, some creatures pick fights while others struggle to learn. The findings hint at consequences that may ripple through ecosystems

Expedition maps biodiversity of Indonesia’s remote seamounts The expedition has gathered critical baseline data on remote tropical seamounts and study how underwater ecosystems impact coastal waters. A team of scientists has successfully completed a three-week deep-sea expedition to Indonesia’s most remote tropical seamounts, gathering critical baseline data on the biodiversity of these largely u…

Depression, anxiety and sleep disorders are among the conditions often treated with antidepressant drugs. Yet, up to 90% of these drugs pass through the body into wastewater. They're also difficult to remove during water treatment, presenting a possible risk of environmental contamination and threats to ecological and human health. Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Environmental Science & Techno…

Mangroves, such as these ones in Cispata Bay, Colombia, effectively produce, trap, and store carbon-rich soil, but the future of this carbon storage is uncertain because of rising sea levels and climate change. Credit: Luisa Fernanda Gómez Vargas

Seeds from the last surviving wild Dendroseris neriifolia tree are now stored in Kew Gardens' Millennium Seed Bank as researchers work to find ways to reintroduce the species into the wild.

A destructive wildfire burned through a third of Santa Rosa Island. For one reporter, the loss isn't theoretical — it's a personal reckoning with a changing paradise.

Professor Melanie Austen is one of only 10 academics named among the people making the greatest impact on the UK environmental sector

By Fredrick Mugira Vincent Ayebare has spent more than a decade operating a boda boda—a commercial motorcycle taxi—in Mbarara City, … The post Africa’s environmental stories are local —but the microphone keeps going to elites first appeared on Media Diversity Institute . The post Africa’s environmental stories are local —but the microphone keeps going to elites appeared first on Media Diversity I…

Say methane and most people think of cows, yet nearly half of all methane is produced by microbes in freshwaters. While we know in a simple sense that microbes are stimulated by warming, it is far more challenging to determine how global warming will affect the release of methane in the long term.

As demand for cobalt, gold and other minerals grows, mining is accelerating deforestation in the Congo basin – and increasing the risk of deadly Ebola outbreaks For decades after the discovery of Ebolavirus in 1976, outbreaks of the disease were relatively small and contained, affecting a few hundred people at most. Not any more. In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola have been much larger, affectin…

Mangroves are famous for trapping vast amounts of carbon, helping slow climate change. However, a new study suggests rising sea levels could eventually reduce that benefit across entire forests. As flooding becomes too extreme, mangroves may die off and their carbon-rich soils could erode, potentially turning these coastal ecosystems from carbon sinks into carbon sources.

A recent expedition to Central Africa has uncovered dozens of new species. In February, a team of 16 specialists from Africa and around the world visited the Lisima plateau in eastern Angola and conducted a biodiversity survey, through which they discovered dozens of species unknown to science, according to The Wilderness Project, which led the […]

Guest editorial by Dr Rebecca Chia-Chun Hsu, Professor Chi-Kuei Wang, and Dr Chung-Cheng Lee, the authors of a new Frontiers in Forests and Global Change article that describes their year-long endeavor to find Taiwan’s tallest tree.

Within the last few days, a camera trap caught images of three mule deer using structure for the first time A trio of mule deer have already scuttled across a not-quite-finished $20m wildlife bridge in Siskiyou county, marking a triumph for the California department of transportation (Caltrans). The bridge and accompanying fencing over Route 97 in Siskiyou county is the first wildlife crossing co…

Three mule deer have become the first animals to walk over California’s first wildlife crossing, which is nearing completion in Siskiyou County, according to the UC Davis Road Ecology Center and the California Department of Transportation.