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Not so Fast: Modeling Shows Ecosystems Can Survive Environmental Change — Up to a Point

A Skoltech researcher and her colleagues from Canada and Chile experimented with mathematical evolutionary models to explore how well ecosystems can keep up with changing environmental conditions — a question all too relevant in our current ecological situation.

18 Nov 2020

Using Satellites and Field Studies to Maximize the Success of Coral Restoration Efforts

Our planet's coral reef ecosystems are in peril from multiple threats.

11 Nov 2020

Light Pollution Negatively Impacts the Reproductive Cycle of Corals

The daily light-dark cycle arising from the earth's rotation is centrally important to biology. Marine organisms, particularly coral reefs, rely on natural light cycles of sunlight and moonlight to regulate various physiological, biological and behavioral processes.

6 Nov 2020

Metal Pollution may be Weakening Scallop Shells and Threatening Marine Ecosystems

Metal pollution from historic mining appears to be weakening scallop shells and threatening marine ecosystems in an area off the coast of the Isle of Man, a major new study suggests.

6 Nov 2020

New Database Shows How Warming Climate Affects the Behavior of Arctic Animals

Three decades of data on animal migration and movements in the Arctic, tracked through a massive database developed by environmental engineers, shows that animals in one of Earth's coldest regions are shifting their behaviors because of climate change.

6 Nov 2020

Plastic Pollution and Ocean Acidification Could Pose Combined Threat to Marine Species

The combined environmental threat of plastic pollution and ocean acidification are having significant impacts on species living in our oceans, according to new research.

6 Nov 2020

New Project Establishes a Record of Soil Changes Related to Climate, Human Activity in the Amazon

Conservation efforts on the edges of the Amazon forest, especially in light of recent deforestation by human disturbance, could help the region weather the storm of climate change, researchers say.

6 Nov 2020

Bioplastic Disposable Dishes can Damage the Marine Environment

A new Tel Aviv University study compares the effects of two types of disposable dishes on the marine environment -- regular plastic disposable dishes and more expensive bioplastic disposable dishes certified by various international organizations -- and determines that the bioplastic dishes had a similar effect on marine animals as regular plastic dishes. Moreover, the study finds that bioplastic does not degrade rapidly in the marine environment.

5 Nov 2020

Survey: 59 Percent of Australians Would Leave their Cars at Home

59 percent of Australians are willing to limit car journeys to certain times in order to improve urban air quality. A majority of 63 percent are in favour of reducing traffic-related emissions by means of environment-fri...

5 Nov 2020

Biologically Important Areas are Losing Ground to Agriculture and Urban Development

Between 1992 and 2015, the world's most biologically diverse places lost an area more than three times the size of Sweden when the land was converted to other uses, mainly agriculture, or gobbled up by urban sprawl.

30 Oct 2020