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Corporate sustainability ratings do not reliably reflect how much forest a company is clearing, researchers at the National University of Singapore report in a study published Sept. 14 in the…
Sable shearwaters in Australia are swallowing far more plastic than they were before 2022, while the overall share of birds carrying any plastic at all has remained steady for 16 years. That is the…
The UK Health Security Agency said Sept. 3 that invasive Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and larvae have been found at residential properties in east London, and that it is the first time the species has…
Radar satellites can locate emperor penguin colonies during the Antarctic winter, when there is no sunlight for optical satellites, researchers write in a study published Sept. 2 in Communications…
The coral reef at Bar Al Hikman in Oman has been losing area continuously since the mid-1980s rather than in pulses driven by storms, according to a 40-year satellite reconstruction published Aug. 25…
Corals bleached at seven of the eight sites surveyed along Japan's coast after the marine heatwaves of 2024, including cool temperate waters far north of the country's tropical reefs, a team led by…
A scenario in which every foreign bottom-trawl catch was kept for use in the country whose waters it came from would move up to 10.6 million people from inadequate to adequate nutrient intake,…
Cocoa expanding onto land that was already farmed in Ghana is associated with food crops being pushed into nearby protected forest reserves, and with more forest cleared inside those reserves,…
The Global Mangrove Watch project has released a reprocessed 40-year map of the world's mangrove forests. It puts worldwide mangrove cover at a net gain of 47,720 hectares between 1985 and 2025, and…
Ask how long it takes a rainforest to grow back and the honest answer has always been slippery. You can count the trees. You can weigh the carbon. But a mature tropical forest is not just a stand of…
A bobolink that summers in a North American hayfield winters in the grasslands of Argentina, a round trip of roughly 12,000 miles. A spoon-billed sandpiper hatched on the Arctic coast of Russia will…
Tussock tundra looks, from the air, like a lumpy green carpet. Up close it is something more particular: a dense mat of mosses and lichens with sedge tussocks rising out of it, a community that…