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Climate-Driven Wildfires in Cascade Range Restructure the Forests

In recent years -- and 2020 is no exception -- parts of the Pacific Northwest that are typically too wet to burn are experiencing more frequent, severe and larger wildfires due to changes in climate.

25 Sep 2020

Amazonia Moving Closer to Catastrophic Ecological Tipping Point

Amazonia is closer to a catastrophic ecological tipping point than any time in the last 100,000 years, and human activity is the cause.

24 Sep 2020

Deep-Sea Coral Reefs at Risk of Collapse Due to Ocean Acidification

Deep-sea coral reefs face challenges as changes to ocean chemistry triggered by climate change may cause their foundations to become brittle, a study suggests.

18 Sep 2020

Europe's Primary Forests are Unprotected and at Risk of Being Destroyed

Like its ancient cathedrals, Europe has a remarkable--but poorly understood--legacy of old-growth forests.

18 Sep 2020

Crop Pests Rapidly Respond to Changing Climates

Fruit flies have the uncanny ability to wake up from a months-long hibernation right when their food of choice--say, the fruit from apple or Hawthorn trees--is at its peak.

18 Sep 2020

Reforestation can Only Partially Reverse Soil Degradation in Tropical Forests

Tropical forest soils play a crucial role in providing vital ecosystem functions.

17 Sep 2020

Short Intrusions of Cooler Deep Water can Mitigate Thermal Stress in Corals

The risk of severe coral bleaching--a condition in which corals lose their symbiotic algae, called zooxanthellae--is five times more frequent today than it was forty years ago.

17 Sep 2020

Study Provides Insight into How Soil Erosion may be Affecting Lifespan of Soils

A major new international study has provided a first worldwide insight into how soil erosion may be affecting the longevity of our soils.

15 Sep 2020

Researchers Quantify Worldwide Phosphorus Loss Due to Soil Erosion

Phosphorus is essential for agriculture, yet this important plant nutrient is increasingly being lost from soils around the world.

14 Sep 2020

Deep-Sea Study of GBR Reveals New Species of Corals and Sponges

For the first time, scientists have viewed the deepest regions of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, discovered five undescribed species consisting of black corals and sponges, and recorded Australia's first observation of an extremely rare fish.

10 Sep 2020