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New Research Alters the Prevailing Understanding of How Marine Life Influences Clouds

Stand on the ocean's shore and take a big whiff of the salt spray and you'll smell the unmistakably pungent scent of the sea. That ripe, almost rotting smell? That's sulfur.

12 Oct 2021

Seabirds Across the Globe Accumulate Plastic's Chemical Components in Their Bodies, Research Reveals

Seabirds from Gough Island in the south Atlantic, Marion Island near Antarctica and the coasts of both Hawaii and Western Australia have a dangerous habit: eating plastic.

12 Oct 2021

Life Cycle of Dungeness Crab Offers Lessons on Possible Effects of Climate Change

Timing and seasonality are known to be components of complicated life cycles for several marine animals, such as the Dungeness crab. Hence, disturbances to these components can severely affect their population.

11 Oct 2021

Study Reports on a Previously Undocumented Climate-Driven Extinction Event

Sixty-three percent. That's the proportion of mammal species that vanished from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula around 30 million years ago, after Earth's climate shifted from swampy to icy. But we are only finding out about it now.

8 Oct 2021

Ice Core Records Reveal Past Human Impacts on the Environment

Several years ago, while analyzing ice core samples from Antarctica's James Ross Island, scientists Joe McConnell, Ph.D., and Nathan Chellman, Ph.D., from DRI, and Robert Mulvaney, Ph.D., from the British Antarctic Survey noticed something unusual: a substantial increase in levels of black carbon that began around the year 1300 and continued to the modern day.

7 Oct 2021

Study Reveals Unique Ability of Seahorses to Snag Prey at Exceptional Speed

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that seahorses can move their heads up at the extraordinary speed of 0.002 seconds when they were analyzing the unbelievable preying capability of seahorses. The fast head movement happens together with a robust flow of water that snags their prey straight into their mouth.

1 Oct 2021

Increasing Abundance of Lianas in Tropical Forests Linked to Natural Canopy Disturbance

Lianas are the bridges of the tropical forest. These long, woody vines contribute to the high diversity of tropical plants and, by linking forest trees together, they also help animals move about the canopy.

30 Sep 2021

Tree Health Linked to How Birds Respond to Climate Change

New Research from Oxford University has revealed that shifts in the timing of egg laying by great tits in response to climate change vary markedly between breeding sites within the same woodland and that this variation is linked to the health of nearby oak trees.

29 Sep 2021

Warning Signs of Ecosystem Collapse Identified in Papua New Guinea Wetland

Warning signs of ecosystem collapse at a wetland of international significance have been discovered in Papua New Guinea (PNG). This was found by a new study performed by scientists from The Australian National University (ANU).

29 Sep 2021

Climate and Geology to Play a Role in Shaping Earth's Biodiversity

Tropical rainforests are the most biodiverse habitats on Earth. They are home to a huge number of different plants, animals, fungi and other organisms.

28 Sep 2021