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Climate Change Could Affect International Biodiversity Conservation Efforts

University of Montana scientists and colleagues investigate the ways in which climate change could affect the efforts to safeguard biodiversity within the network of protected regions worldwide.

4 Oct 2021

Black Summer Blazes Raise Extinction Risk Forecasts

The number of threatened Australian native bee species is expected to increase by nearly five times after the devastating Black Summer bushfires in 2019-20, according to new research led by Flinders University.

3 Oct 2021

Study Proposes Ways to Determine the Health of Ecosystems

An international research group led by Bev Law, a researcher from Oregon State University, uncovers three variables that determine the health of a terrestrial ecosystem. The variables are the ability of the vegetation to uptake carbon and its efficiency to use carbon and water.

30 Sep 2021

Study Shows How Climate Change Could be Altering the Marine Food Web

Climate change is redistributing biodiversity globally, and distributional shifts of organisms often follow the speed and direction of environmental changes.

29 Sep 2021

Research Sheds New Light on the Impact of Human Colonization on Island Ecosystems

Research has shed new light on the impact of humans on islands' biodiversity. The findings show how human colonization altered forest across the islands of Macaronesia including the loss of landscape authenticity.

29 Sep 2021

Warning Signs of Ecosystem Collapse Identified in Papua New Guinea Wetland

Warning signs of ecosystem collapse at a wetland of international significance have been discovered in Papua New Guinea (PNG). This was found by a new study performed by scientists from The Australian National University (ANU).

29 Sep 2021

CSIRO and Partners Scope NT Hub to Lower Emissions and Boost Investment

CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, the Northern Territory Government, industry and engineering companies have joined forces to develop a path towards rapid emissions reduction across the energy sector in Northern Australia.

28 Sep 2021

Climate Change Could Alter Chemical Communication Among Ocean Creatures

Telecommunications networks span the globe, allowing people to quickly and effortlessly exchange information. Undersea chemical communication among marine life is just as complex, but not as well understood.

23 Sep 2021

Coral Reef Biodiversity Likely to Shuffle but not Decline Under Ocean Warming and Acidification

Coral reefs are among the most biologically diverse, complex and productive ecosystems on the planet. Most of coral reef biodiversity consists of tiny organisms living deep within the three-dimensional reef matrix.

21 Sep 2021

Coastal Communities at Risk as Coral Reefs’ Ability to Provide Ecosystem Services Steadily Declines

According to recent research led by the University of British Columbia, the capacity of coral reefs to offer ecosystem services, which are depended upon by millions of people around the world, has dropped by half since the 1950s.

20 Sep 2021