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Southern Ocean Sea Ice Could be Vital Resource to Improve Earth System Models

Sea ice across the Southern Ocean played a crucial role in controlling atmospheric carbon dioxide levels during times of past climate change - and it could provide a critical resource to improve Earth system models, a new study shows.

23 Jun 2020

Global Trillion Trees Campaign Could Lead to More Biodiversity Loss

Campaigns to plant huge numbers of trees could backfire, according to a new study that is the first to rigorously analyze the potential effects of subsidies in such schemes.

23 Jun 2020

Pre-Columbian Amerindians Influenced Present Biodiversity of Amazon Forest

Innovation by ancient farmers to improve soil fertility continues to have an impact on the biodiversity of the Amazon, a major new study shows.

19 Jun 2020

CSIRO and Microsoft Partner to Tackle Plastic Waste, Illegal Fishing, and Efficient Farming

Artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies will be harnessed to tackle global challenges including illegal fishing and plastic waste, and to boost farming as part of a new partnership between Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and Microsoft.

16 Jun 2020

Climate Change may Drive Changes in Swans' Wintering Behavior

Nearly 13 kilometres per year: that is the rate at which the wintering area of Bewick's swans has shifted east over the past 50 years.

15 Jun 2020

Study Highlights the Emerging Threat of Climate Change to Migratory Mule Deer

When drought reshuffles the green-up of habitats that mule deer migrate across, it dramatically shortens the annual foraging bonanza they rely on.

15 Jun 2020

Soil Organisms can Enhance Numerous Global Sustainability Goals

Soils are home to more than 25 percent of the earth's total biodiversity, supporting life on land and water, nutrient cycling and retention, food production, pollution remediation and climate regulation.

15 Jun 2020

Disappearance of Antelopes can have a Profound Impact on Entire Ecosystems

Five years before the novel coronavirus ran rampant around the world, saiga antelopes from the steppes of Eurasia experienced their own epidemic.

15 Jun 2020

Green Developments can Damage Marine and Coastal Environment

The world's waterfront cities should not be deluged with apparently green developments because they still carry the potential to cause damage to the marine and coastal environment, scientists have warned.

11 Jun 2020

New Thematic Series focuses on Restoration of Drylands to Mitigate Climate Change

The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), in conjunction with Wiley Publishing, today are excited to release the first issue of Restoration Ecology - Arid Lands (RE-AL).

11 Jun 2020