Biodiversity

Konik horses graze in the open wetlands of the Oostvaardersplassen nature reserve in the Netherlands. Credits – WIkipedia …

Oysters are possibly the most glamorous of all shellfish, known for their aphrodisiac qualities (rich in amino acids…

An almost forgotten forestry experiment has revealed surprising clues about how mountain ash forests respond to different kinds…

State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China…

Of the 797 Unesco biosphere reserves across 147 countries, Dublin Bay is the only one to include a…

On a sunny winter afternoon, Paul Davis kneels to the ground and sets a patch of vegetation alight.…

A close-up of the new avocado species – credit, Kevin Wann, via SWNS Scientists trudging through Nicaragua’s rainforest…

Oxygen, the element that sustains nearly all multicellular life on Earth, is disappearing from the world’s aquatic ecosystems.…

Jablonski, D., Roy, K. & Valentine, J. W. Out of the tropics: evolutionary dynamics of the latitudinal diversity…

ⓘ c82.net Two of the many restored illustrations now available on c82.net Designer Nicholas Rougeux used AI tools…

Thewissen, J. & Bajpai, S. Whale origins as a poster child for macroevolution. BioScience 51, 1037–1049 (2001). Article …

A new analysis estimates that the world’s highest-consuming 10% generate trillions of dollars in environmental damage each year…

In 1968, the Netherlands reclaimed land from the sea for factories; when the development was abandoned, birds colonised It and the accidental wetland became a 56-square-kilometre nature reserve | World News