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Warming Climate Linked to Global Rise in Human-Wildlife Conflicts

Research on the impacts of climate change often considers its effects on people separately from impacts on ecosystems.

28 Feb 2023

Detailed Image of Coral Symbiosis After Mass Coral Bleaching

The Great Barrier Reef mass coral bleaching of 2016 has revealed a complex picture of both loss and growth within the microalgal communities of corals, according to the new study led by a team from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS).

27 Feb 2023

Mass Extinction Event Offers Insight Into Modern Biodiversity Crisis

Numerous mass extinctions took place throughout the Earth’s history, the most noticeable being the Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the “Great Dying,” which occurred 252 million years ago.

27 Feb 2023

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