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Researchers Develop New MPA Guide to Effectively Protect the Ocean

A novel scientific framework to consistently understand, plan, establish, evaluate and monitor ocean protection in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) developed by an international team of scientists including Ellen Pikitch, PhD, of Stony Brook University, is published in Science.

13 Sep 2021

Accelerated Forest Fragmentation has Consequences for the Global Carbon Cycle

The deforestation of the tropical rainforests is progressing unstoppably. According to scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), these forests are becoming fragmented at a higher rate than expected.

9 Sep 2021

Researchers Receive NSF Funding to Study How Climate Change Impacts the Florida Stone Crab

The LSU College of the Coast & Environment, or CC&E, is leading a team of researchers that has been awarded $922,033 from the National Science Foundation to conduct ground-breaking research to identify how climate change will impact one of Florida's most iconic fisheries, the Florida stone crab.

9 Sep 2021

Doing Poseidon's Work: How Citizen Scientists are Helping to Restore Endangered Seagrass

An endangered seagrass which supports seahorses, blue swimmer crabs and fish like snapper is being successfully rehabilitated thanks to the help of citizen scientists and UNSW scientists.

9 Sep 2021

Warming Oceans Drive North Atlantic Right Whale Population Towards Extinction

Warming oceans have driven the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale population from its traditional and protected habitat, exposing the animals to more lethal ship strikes, disastrous commercial fishing entanglements and greatly reduced calving rates.

2 Sep 2021

Developing New Global Priority Maps that Help Identify New Areas for Conservation

Managing a strategically placed 30% of land for conservation could safeguard 70% of all considered terrestrial plant and vertebrate animal species, while simultaneously conserving more than 62% of the world's above and below ground vulnerable carbon, and 68% of all clean water.

1 Sep 2021

Conservation Challenges On Public Land; ASU Professor Calls For Changes To Use It Or Lose It Rules

An Arizona State University assistant professor says laws regarding natural resources on public land are antiquated and prevent voluntary conservation.

31 Aug 2021

Conservationists Help Create a New Management Plan to Conserve Threatened Coral Reefs in Brazil

A team of conservationists in Brazil funded by the Conservation Leadership Programme, of which WCS is a partner, has assisted in the creation and recent publication of a new government-executed management plan to conserve threatened coral reefs in Brazil's largest federal coastal marine conservation unit, the Costa dos Corais.

31 Aug 2021

Study Illustrates Positive Relationship Between Marine Biodiversity and Ocean Temperature Over Geological Timescales

During the Cenozoic era, warmer oceans harbored more species with similar functional roles, according to a new study, which reveals how ocean temperature shapes biodiversity and biogeographic patterns over geological timescales.

27 Aug 2021

Climate Change and Drought Shift the Range of Infectious Plant Disease in Forests

Even pathogens have their limits. When it gets too hot or too dry, some pathogens--like many living things--search for cooler, wetter and more hospitable climes.

26 Aug 2021