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Mixed Farming Methods Could Eliminate Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Small-scale mixed-use agriculture that avoids synthetic fertilizers in favor of manure could eliminate agricultural greenhouse gas emissions if established across the United States' 100 million hectares of lush high quality cropland, according to a study by Gidon Eshel, publishing 3rd June 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.

4 Jun 2021

Life Stage Differences Crucial for the Stability of Complex Ecological Communities

A new study by ecologist André de Roos shows that differences between juveniles and adults of the same species are crucial for the stability of complex ecological communities.

4 Jun 2021

Global Warming Leads to Rapid Deoxygenation of Freshwater Lakes

Oxygen levels in the world's temperate freshwater lakes are declining rapidly -- faster than in the oceans -- a trend driven largely by climate change that threatens freshwater biodiversity and drinking water quality.

3 Jun 2021

Electricity-Eating Bacteria in Brackish Sediments May Play Role in Combating Climate Change

Global oceans absorb about 25% of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.

3 Jun 2021

Declining Fish Biodiversity can Affect Human Nutrition

All fish are not created equal, at least when it comes to nutritional benefits.

3 Jun 2021

Declining Fish Biodiversity in the Amazon Could Lead to Major Nutritional Shortages

A new study of dozens of wild fish species commonly consumed in the Peruvian Amazon says that people there could suffer major nutritional shortages if ongoing losses in fish biodiversity continue.

31 May 2021

Corals and Their Symbiotic Algae May Have Capacity to Adjust to Current Ocean Warming

One of the most important and widespread reef-building corals, known as cauliflower coral, exhibits strong partnerships with certain species of symbiotic algae, and these relationships have persisted through periods of intense climate fluctuations over the last 1.5 million years, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State.

27 May 2021

Study Shows Existence of Climate-Change Refugia in Dry-Forest Region

Several indicators point to the adverse impacts of climate change on the planet's vegetation, but a little-known positive fact is the existence of climate-change refugia in which trees are far less affected by the gradual rise in temperatures and changing rainfall regimes.

27 May 2021

Study Could Shed Light on Whale Ecology

Summary: A new study published by the open access publisher Frontiers shows the usefulness of opportunistically collected specimens, such as stranded carcasses, to study elusive species.

26 May 2021

Indigenous Amazonia Populations may have Declined due to Climate Change Before Great Dying

A new study has proposed that the effects of climate change experienced in the Amazon rainforest before the arrival of European settlers after 1492 might have implied that populations of indigenous people were already declining before the “Great Dying.”

25 May 2021