Seagrass beds are so effective in protecting tropical beaches from erosion, that they can reduce the need for regular, expensive beach nourishments that are used now. In a recent article in... Read more
That humans and the cities we build affect the ecosystem and even drive some evolutionary change in species’ traits is already known. Spiders in cities are getting bigger and salmon in river... Read more
When putting together a team of scientists to work on a problem, it makes sense to bring together the best and brightest in the field, right? Well, maybe not. In a newly published paper, a t... Read more
Shocks caused by climate and seasonal change could be used to aid recovery of some of the world’s badly-degraded coral reefs, an international team of scientists has proposed. A new report b... Read more
Tübingen researchers ask: do herbicides alter ecosystems around the world? Scant research makes it hard to prove. The number of humans on the planet has almost doubled in the past 50 years ?... Read more
It is afternoon in a hardwood forest on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau, and the cicadas are singing. David Haskell, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of the South... Read more
There’s a lot of hype and speculation about algae as a biofuel source Algae are high on the genetic engineering agenda as a potential source for biofuel, and they should be subjected to inde... Read more
Humanity may be pushing the planet toward sudden, irreversible ecological changes Human activities are pushing Earth toward a “tipping point” that could cause sudden, irreversibl... Read more
The ecological recovery at some of our sandy beach sites was remarkable The reappearance of long-forgotten habitats and the resurgence of species unseen for years may not be among the expect... Read more
The prospects of saving the world’s coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future. A meeting in Denmark took evidence from... Read more