Promoting earth’s legacy delivers local economic benefits
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Why are mountains so high? It doesn’t add up
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Explainer: How climate change is accelerating sea level rise
Sea level rise (SLR) is one of the most severe impacts of climate change, with rising waters threatening to inundate small-island nations and coastal...
Human pressures on mammals in protected areas of West Africa
When a wildlife ecologist started her multiyear camera survey of West African wildlife, she sought to understand interactions between mammals and people in protected...
Faults’ hot streaks and slumps could change earthquake hazard assessments
For more than a century, a guiding principle in seismology has been that earthquakes recur at semi-regular intervals according to a 'seismic cycle.' In...
Bee biodiversity barometer on Fiji
The biodiversity buzz is alive and well in Fiji, but climate change, noxious weeds and multiple human activities are making possible extinction a counter...
Surrogate-reared sea otters helped restore threatened population
The population of threatened southern sea otters in Elkhorn Slough, an estuary in Central California, has made a significant comeback as a result of...
Alternatives to genetic affinity as a context for within-species response to climate
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 September 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0584-8Intraspecies response to climate change is expected to align with genetic affinity. Using the American pika...
Ecoregion shapes the range response
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 September 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0586-6Within a single species, different populations can show strikingly varied responses to climate – often attributed...
Daily rainfall over Sumatra linked to larger atmospheric phenomenon
Atmospheric scientists reveal details of the connection between a larger atmospheric phenomenon, termed the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and the daily patterns of rainfall in...
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