Honey bees could help monitor fertility loss in insects due to climate change
New research could help scientists track how climate change is impacting the birds and the bees... of honey bees.
Poor Amazonians go hungry despite living in one of the most biodiverse places on...
A team of scientists from Brazil and the UK are publishing the results of the first study linking food security for wildlife-dependent people in...
Climate shifts for krill predators
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0756-6Antarctic krill play a key role in Southern Ocean food webs but are vulnerable to climate...
Diminishing CO<sub>2</sub>-driven gains in water-use efficiency of global forests
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0747-7Under rising CO2, most plants constrict their stomata, lose less water via transpiration and photosynthesize more...
Evolution of the Galapagos in the Anthropocene
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0761-9The Galapagos Islands inspired the theory of evolution by means of natural selection; now in the...
Projected shifts in the foraging habitat of crabeater seals along the Antarctic Peninsula
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0745-9Crabeater seals feed predominantly on Antarctic krill. Combining seal tracks and diving behaviour with environmental variables...
Catalyst opens door to more efficient, environmentally friendly ethylene production
Researchers have engineered a new catalyst that can more efficiently convert ethane into ethylene, which is used in a variety of manufacturing processes. The...
Fault roughness and magnitude of earthquakes
A new study has found that tectonic plates beneath the Earth's surface can show varying degrees of roughness and could help explain why certain...
Dramatic loss of food plants for insects
Plummeting insect numbers are becoming a concern. A team of researchers have now demonstrated for the first time that the diversity of food plants...
Palaeontologists reveal ‘the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth’
100 million years ago, ferocious predators, including flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters, made the Sahara the most dangerous place on Earth.
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Rare blindcat found in US, could prove water-filled caves connect Texas and Mexico
The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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