Sea cucumbers are the ocean's janitors, cleaning the seabed and recycling nutrients back into the water.
Droughts are usually blamed on a lack of rain, but a team led by researchers at the School of Geography and the Environment has shown that there’s something else at work: the atmosphere itself is demanding more water out of the soil, rivers, and plants.
The study analysed data from 11 reserves in the Greater Kruger region of South Africa between 2017 and 2023.
Virginia Tech joined a global research team that tracked more than 100 species and identified ocean hotspots critical for protecting threatened marine megafauna that fall beyond current conservation zones.
Some rules of hydrology are made to be broken.
A recently published article by researchers at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science introduces a novel approach to reducing electronic waste and advancing sustainable data processing: turning old smartphones into tiny data centres.
Canada’s wildfire season has had an early and intense start, with states of emergency declared in Saskatchewan and Manitoba and forecasts warning of severe conditions across central and eastern Canada.
Every year during the growing season, thousands of pilots across the country climb into small planes loaded with hundreds of pounds of pesticides and fly extremely close to the ground at upward of 140 miles an hour, unloading their cargo onto rows of corn, cotton, and soybeans.
Scientists with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have discovered that a bacterial probiotic helps slow the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in already infected wild corals in Florida.
Concern over declines in insects has increased public interest in planting flowers in gardens and parks to support species that are vital for wildlife – but choices over ‘pollinator-friendly’ seed mixes are often based on anecdotal advice.
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