Researchers have discovered a new player in aquatic environments that thrives on nitrate.

In a discovery that challenges over a century of evolutionary conventional wisdom, corals have been shown to pass somatic mutations — changes to the DNA sequence that occur in non-reproductive cells — to their offspring.

With temperatures rising globally, cold weather extremes and freezes in Florida are diminishing – an indicator that Florida’s climate is shifting from subtropical to tropical. 

A new study out today in the first issue of Environmental Research: Ecology, published by IOP Publishing, assessed effects of past and current climate variability on global forest productivity.

The Arctic is no stranger to loss. As the region warms nearly four times faster than the rest of the world, glaciers collapse, wildlife suffers and habitats continue to disappear at a record pace.

Scientists can now predict and compare tipping points so that resources can be directed where they are most urgently needed.

Deforestation, habitat loss and fragmentation are linked and are driving the ongoing biodiversity crisis, with hydropower to blame for much of this degradation.

As the planet’s climate has gotten warmer, so has the prevalence of fish die-offs, or mass mortality events. 

A report into the global status of ladybirds reveals the threats they face and lays out a roadmap for conservation. 

Dying reefs and once-vibrant corals that have since lost all colour: climate change is having massive effects on the architects of undersea cities.