The retreat of the planet's glaciers is one of the most visible and dramatic indicators of the far-reaching impact of climate change on the world's ecosystems. Now, a new paper published in Nature ...

Field ecologist Felicity Newell, Ph.D., joined the Texas A&M Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology as an assistant ...

The world’s peatlands are highly diverse, from moss dominated, boreal and alpine Sphagnum bogs to tropical peat swamp forests with trees up to 70 m tall, yet they all share distinctive, harsh, ...

Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree ...

A new study has revealed that pesticide residues are present in 70% of European soils, where they contribute towards soil ...

The conversion of rainforest into plantations erodes and restructures food webs and fundamentally changes the way these ecosystems function, according to a new study published in Nature. The findings ...

The British government’s own security experts join the dots between nature loss, security and the wellbeing of society.

Desertification is accelerating under climate change, threatening biodiversity, food security, and human well-being across the Mediterranean Basin, southern Europe, and the Middle East. Water scarcity ...

Nature provides essential inputs to the economy through ecosystem services. In Asia and the Pacific, accelerating biodiversity loss is eroding these services, increasing vulnerability to shocks, and ...

The increasingly urgent climate crisis has led to a boom in commercial tree plantations in an attempt to offset excess carbon emissions. However, authors argue that these carbon-offset plantations ...

Background Australia is often imagined as a continent of open space, with most people clustered along the coast and a vast ...