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Climate Change and Urbanization Create a “Double Whammy” for Many Birds in Los Angeles

Climate change isn't the only threat facing California's birds. Over the course of the 20th century, urban sprawl and agricultural development have dramatically changed the landscape of the state, forcing many native species to adapt to new and unfamiliar habitats.

23 Feb 2023

New Low-Cost Methods Efficiently Detect Drought Stress

Droughts, one of the variables that impact plant physiology, are becoming more severe in all plant ecosystems around the world because of climate change.

22 Feb 2023

New Insights into Ice Sheet Movement

Utilizing artificial intelligence, scientists from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and the University of Copenhagen discovered that meltwater in tunnels beneath Greenland’s ice sheet changes speed and, in some places, accelerates rapidly towards the ocean.

22 Feb 2023

Study on Giant Trees Shows the Link Between Spiritual Ecosystem Services and Macroecological Processes

Giant trees are the largest and longest living organisms on the Earth and play an important ecological role in the natural world. Moreover, human societies recognize relatively large trees, and position them in significant sociocultural roles.

22 Feb 2023

Waquoit Bay’s Ecosystem Shift Presents Broad Concerns About the Fate of Coastal Estuaries

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020 with associated travel restrictions, Matthew Long thought his students could shift their overseas research projects to instead study the seagrass meadow ecosystem in Waquoit Bay.

22 Feb 2023

The Role of Marine Phytoplankton in Regulating Atmospheric CO2

Recent research shows that a common category of marine calcifying phytoplankton (coccolithophores) plays an important role in the regulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere.

21 Feb 2023

An Analysis of a Marine Heatwave Event and Its Triggers

A research group headed by Prof. Baoshu Yin from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) accredited the record-breaking marine heatwave (MHW) event to the atmospheric weather pattern, global warming, and El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

20 Feb 2023

"Plant Trees – Get Mushrooms" Strategy for Sustainable Forest Restoration

Lecturers of the Faculty of Science, and the Center of Learning Network for Region (CLNR) Chulalongkorn University successfully planted trees in the forests in Nan and Saraburi provinces through innovative seedlings with ectomycorrhiza fungi, motivating villagers and farmers to "plant trees and get mushrooms", for extra income.

20 Feb 2023

Climate Change Poses a Threat to Land-Based Mammals in the Brazilian Amazon

From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the projected savannization of the region.

16 Feb 2023