The seas surrounding the Arctic are important fisheries and ecological regions; they are also among the areas most affected by climate change.
If you’re an avid gardener, you may have considered peat moss — decomposed Sphagnum moss that helps retain moisture in soil — to enhance your home soil mixture.
A healthy ecosystem requires diversity. An important component of biodiversity is functional diversity (FD), which denotes the diversity of functional traits of organisms in a given ecosystem.
For tiny salamanders squirming skin-to-soil, big-picture weather patterns may seem as far away as outer space. But for decades, scientists have mostly relied on free-air temperature data at large spatial scales to predict future salamander distributions under climate change.
A multinational study team led by environmental physicist Prof. Dr André Butz of Heidelberg University discovered that end-of-dry-season CO2 pulses reoccur each year in the atmosphere over the Australian continent.
New research from Heriot-Watt University in partnership with The Glenmorangie Distillery and the Marine Conservation Society has, for the first time, predicted the biodiversity gain of reintroducing European native oysters (Ostrea edulis).
The Horizon 2020 REST-COAST project, which concentrates on coastal management and large-scale restoration, held its debut Summer School workshop from March 13–15, 2023 in Maldonado, Uruguay, at the Centro Universitario Regional del Este (CURE).
Cape Cod's salt marshes are as iconic as they are important. These beautiful, low-lying wetlands are some of the most biologically productive ecosystems on Earth.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) scientists have devised a method for measuring coral biodiversity by extracting environmental DNA (eDNA) from a liter of surface seawater sampled above a reef.
Portable photoionization detectors (PIDs) have become an important tool in the management of many contaminated land remediation projects, and the following article will explain the reasons behind their popularity, despite the challenges presented by field work.