California is losing its trees — perhaps permanently — as climate change is shifting its ecosystems
Trees are burning and grasslands are taking their place.
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Almost half of the world is now “degraded”
We're leaving no stone unturned.
Archaea: the invisible powerhouses of the planet
Archaea are probably the most successful beings on Earth. They've been around for billions of years and can survive almost ...
Different cities have their own microbial fingerprint, a global study reports
"If you gave me your shoe, I could tell you with about 90% accuracy the city you came from," the ...
The world’s largest ecosystems could collapse in decades — much faster than previously thought
Scientists are concerned about the irreversible damage done to global ecosystems.
Ecosystems with varied plant species are lusher, more efficient
Greater plant diversity benefits everyone in the ecosystem, a new study reports. Image credits Tien Vu. Higher levels of plant ...
Tropical forests and coral reefs are buckling under interacting threats
When it rains, it pours.
What is biodiversity
Diversity, 100% biological.
Climate change and ozone layer holes form feedback loop, reports international panel
"Greenhouse gas emissions trap more heat in the lower atmosphere which leads to a cooling of the upper atmosphere. Those ...
What is soil? Here’s the inside scoop
The Earth's great recycle bin.
Arctic plants are getting taller due to climate change — which could fuel more climate change
Well, this is an unusual problem to have.
Climate change will become the leading cause of vertebrate-species loss by 2070
Things are heating up.
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degree C would save most global species, new study concludes
... but if we keep on with the "business as usual" approach, things will be much worse.
Scientists successfully transplant coral into the devastated Great Barrier Reef
This successful first trial might one day save the reef.
Juice company dumped orange peels in Costa Rican national park in the 90s — it revived the forest
Orange is the new forest.
Pristine mountain habitats are also not safe from climate change
Incoming climate change will have a drastic effect on pristine mountain habitats, a new study has found.
Humanity is driving thousands of species extinct, but there’s a flip side — we also create new species
Humans -- tyrants of creators? Two researchers explored this duality by studying both extinct species and those who had evolved ...
Are cephalopods taking over the oceans?
Human activity has been wreaking havoc on ocean life. One group however seems to thrive where others struggle to survive: ...
Why don’t they just eat all of them – predator-prey study reveals new law governing ecosystems
The results of a new study offer insight into the workings of predator-prey mechanisms, more specifically how the number of ...
Ecosystems still feel the pain of ancient extinctions
The more researchers study ecosystems, the more we learn that an ecosystem behaves, in many ways, just like a living ...
New study estimates 1 million marine species – one third still unknown
The world's oceans are teeming with life, a new census estimating almost 1 million species out there; but marine life ...
Earth took 10 million years to recover from biggest extinction
Some 250 million years ago, life on Earth passed through its toughest time so far, as 96% of all marine ...
Seagrass on ocean coasts can store twice as much carbon as tropical rainforests, yet face destruction
A new research from a team of international marine geoscientists has found that seagrass meadows, found in coastal regions, can ...
Antarctic plant ecosystem threatened by ‘alien’ seeds
Antarctica is home to one of harshest environments in the world, but exactly because of this it exhibit a unique ...
Ocean life threatened by mass extinction
Climate change and over-fishing are held responsible for the swift collapse of coral reefs and the propagation of mass extinction ...
Fool’s gold is ocean’s fertilizer
Bacteria and small plants at the bottom of the ocean require significant quantities of iron to survive and grow, just ...
Underwater… lakes !
Boy I've gotta tell you, my jaw really dropped when I heard this one. There are actual lakes, on the ...
Stunning variety of sea life found in Antarctica
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) published some quite awesome pictures showing that Antarctica isn't the lifeless frozen wasteland most people ...