The super El Niño is cooking coral reefs — can lullabies and probiotics save them?
It’s peak spawning time for coral in the Caribbean Sea and there’s something new in the water this…
Macquarie: Australia removed rats, mice and rabbits from Macquarie Island after nearly 200 years, and seabirds and native vegetation are now recovering | World News
Representative Image of the recovery of Macquarie Island’s wildlife and seabird populations (AI-generated image) Macquarie Island, a windswept…
Global assessment shows blue carbon wealth dominated by ocean processes and unevenly distributed across countries
Data sources and spatial harmonization We compiled updated datasets on blue carbon ecosystem extent, annual carbon sequestration, biological…
In 2003, scientists discovered wolves refused to cross a simple line of fluttering flags; today it helps protect cattle without killing predators |
In 2003, scientists began closely examining how an old hunting technique called fladry could be transformed into a…
Biodiversity recovery is slow following clear-cut harvest of boreal forests
This transatlantic meta-analysis showed that clear-cut harvest in boreal forests consistently resulted in divergence of community composition away…
Mining triggers extensive additional deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa
Data To map and analyse the spatial extent of direct mining-induced deforestation of dense forest across sub-Saharan Africa,…
Meet the biologists deciphering marine-mammal histories from baleen, whiskers and tusks
Male narwhals fighting over the carcass of a female off Baffin Island, Canada.Credit: Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures via Alamy…
Increase in wild animal consumption across Central Africa
DataCompiling the database We compiled our database by identifying all sources providing data on wild meat consumption in…
AI needs solid botanical data more than ever
I graduated in 2017 from one of the last stand-alone botany departments in the United States. My undergraduate…
Digitally native species are a necessary shift in taxonomic practice
Bánki, O. et al. Catalogue of Life (2025-11-16 XR) (Catalogue of Life Foundation, 2025); https://doi.org/10.48580/dgvbl. Miralles, A. et…
Marine protected areas marginally offset anthropogenic declines in tropical reef fish contributions to nature and people
Carson, R. Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962). Hallmann, C. A. et al. More than 75 percent decline over…
The natural architecture of oyster reefs maximizes recruit survival
Huston, M. A general hypothesis of species diversity. Am. Nat. 113, 81–101 (1979). Article MathSciNet Google Scholar Kovalenko,…