Comment: We reconstructed Britain of millions of years ago to see what climate breakdown...
Dr Matthew Pound, Associate Professor in Physical Geography, and Dr Martha Gibson, Research Fellow in Paleoclimatology at Northumbria University, explore how the climate crisis...
Interactive map will help protect one of the UK’s most threatened mammals
An interactive web tool is being used to map suitable habitats for a nationally significant water vole species.
It was developed by researchers from the...
Air pollution significantly reduces pollination by confusing butterflies and bees
Common air pollutants from both urban and rural environments may be reducing the pollinating abilities of insects by preventing them from sniffing out the...
Biospherian will share water stories from ‘Spaceship Earth’
Through a radical two-year experiment living inside a mini-Earth, ecologist Dr Mark Nelson developed a deep understanding of humans’ connection with the planetary biosphere...
DNA sequencing helps explore fish diversity but lacks pinpoint accuracy
Environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing is allowing scientists to explore piscine diversity in the Amazon without catching fish, but the approach has its limitations when studying environments as diverse as this.
“Radical” rhetoric of farming reform promising, but lack of details and urgency still puts...
On 6 January, the Government announced further details on two new schemes for rewarding farmers in England for producing food sustainably, while supporting nature’s...
Superbug MRSA arose in hedgehogs long before clinical use of antibiotics
Scientists appear to have found evidence that a type of the antibiotic resistant superbug MRSA arose in nature long before the use of antibiotics...
Abundance of life discovered beneath an Antarctic ice shelf
Far beneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic, there is more marine life than expected, finds a study in the journal Current Biology, published...
Government set to license fishing vessels for continued bottom trawling in UK Marine Protected...
The UK Government is about to issue over 1,000 fishing licenses for EU and UK fishing vessels for 2022, it was announced on 16...
Dealing sensibly with knotweed (with a nod to emissions)
We can now harness the carbon scavenging power of Japanese knotweed and other invasive plants, explains Nic Seal, Founder and MD of Environet, a...
Research unmasks the true culprit in the so-called ‘Croydon Cat Killer’ case
New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has shed light on a spate of mutilated cats found dead in London between 2014 and...
Tropical forests regrow surprisingly fast
A new study, published in Science, shows that regrowing tropical forests recover surprisingly fast on abandoned land.
After 20 years, they can attain on average...
Almost two-thirds of species at deep-sea hydrothermal vents are at risk of extinction
New research from Queen’s University Belfast has led to 184 deep-sea species being added to the global Red List of Threatened Species. With almost...
Loss of tree species has cumulative impact on biodiversity
Diseases affecting different UK tree species appear to have a multiplying effect on the loss of associated biodiversity, according to new research by James...
Plants struggle to keep pace with climate change, says study
How plants adapt to climate change, and the challenges therein, is coming into clearer focus, according to researchers from UC Santa Cruz.
Research has long...
Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
Combined stressors could impair soils’ ability to cycle nutrients and trap carbon, says a group from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Soils are home...
From ambition to biodiversity action: Time to hold actors accountable
Scientists have proposed a framework for effective national-level implementation of global biodiversity goals. The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) writes
Next spring, government...
A reprieve for mako sharks in the North Atlantic
International fishery managers agree to historic yet potentially short-term ban
On 23 November, conservationists were celebrating a hard-fought ban on retention of North Atlantic shortfin...
A clean ocean by 2030: UN panel charts “the most direct course”
Experts’ “Clean Ocean Manifesto” includes an integrated ocean debris observing system
Reducing marine debris by 50-90% and introducing a system of globally-distributed hi-tech monitors are...
The transition to EVs cannot come at the expense of the ocean
As the focus at COP26 in Glasgow shifts to greening the world’s transportation systems, electric vehicles (EVs) are in the spotlight. However, it is...
