The season is a time of great change, turbulence, and productivity in northern waters.

On the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP), a project named "Gully Land Consolidation" (GLC) has been implemented in rural watersheds to offset the farmland loss induced by "Grain for Green Program".

Covering only 3-4% of the global land surface, peatlands store one-third of the total global soil carbon despite.

Charcoal particles from recent bushfires in NSW were transported 50 kilometres, which has significance for fire history reconstruction.

Efforts to create synthetic replacements for palm oil are still likely to take several years, so immediate attention should be focused on making the existing production process more sustainable, researchers at the University of Bath’s Centre for Integrated Bioprocessing Research (CIBR) and Centre for Sustainable Circular Technologies (CSCT) have found.

Wearing clothes can release even greater quantities of microfibres to the environment than washing them, new research shows.

Colour-changing crabs struggle to camouflage themselves when exposed to noise from ships, new research shows.

New international research has found a worrying change in the Indian Ocean’s surface temperatures that puts southeast Australia on course for increasingly hot and dry conditions.

Some species of fish, notably parrotfish and wrasses living on coral reefs, change their biological sex as they age, beginning life as females and later becoming functionally male.

Using more than 30 years of earth satellite images, scientists at Tufts University and the non-profit conservation organization Defenders of Wildlife have discovered that habitat loss for imperiled species in the U.S. over this period was more than twice as great on non-protected private lands than on federally protected lands.