Coffee plants are critically endangered by climate change. Researchers are finding solutions to keep scientists supplied with their favourite discovery fuel.

The idea of prosperity without growth is gaining traction among researchers. So why are many economists sceptical?

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Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, ...

Les espècies exòtiques invasores causen enormes impactes ecològics i socioeconòmics. Els impactes ecològics són especialment greus en illes, per la seva rica biodiversitat en espècies endèmiques.

Recently, I made a comment over on Steve Heard’s Scientist Sees Squirrel blog: I have never published a paper that’s not been improved, to some degree, by peer review, and broadly the system …

From AI to biotechnology, today’s scientific breakthroughs raise ethical and social challenges that technical expertise alone cannot solve.

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Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

Un metaanálisis publicado hoy en PNAS muestra que, a nivel mundial, la pérdida de producción agrícola debida a la polinización insuficiente ha disminuido desde la década de 1980, principalmente, graci...

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

Analyses of large-scale datasets call for urgent action to conserve plant diversity

Climate change forces species to adapt rapidly to avoid extinction. To directly observe rapid adaptation and extinction, we conducted synchronized evolution experiments with Arabidopsis thaliana in 30...

Más de 60 años después de la obra con mayor impacto de Rachel Carson, muchas de sus advertencias y de sus pronósticos siguen de actualidad.

Ascensión es una isla de origen volcánico que se ha convertido en un paraje de gran vegetación. ¿Qué lecciones para el futuro del medio ambiente pueden sacarse de allí? Conversamos con Víctor Maull, c...

The environmentalist founded the field of co-evolution, and warned that rapid human expansion would cause biodiversity collapse and famine.

Más de 60 años después de la obra con mayor impacto de Rachel Carson, muchas de sus advertencias y de sus pronósticos siguen de actualidad.

Aves, mamíferos y reptiles se desplazan escondidos entre ramas, cajas o rincones y alteran, a su llegada, el ecosistema que los acoge

IA. Conocimientos científicos ocultos. Sara Beery. Monitoreo ambiental. Visión artificial. Diversidad de la vida en la Tierra.

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A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...

Su pérdida es una amenaza global para los ecosistemas, la producción de alimentos y el bienestar humano

‘Graus, Minuts, Segons’ segueix el projecte de recerca d’ecosistemes insulars liderat per l’ecòloga Anna Traveset

Crowdfunding para la protección del lobo contra la ofensiva legislativa

Abstract. Plant reproductive strategies are particularly relevant on islands, where environmental constraints usually shape ecological dynamics. In this se

A new study of butterfly populations in the US shows a 22% decline among over 500 species in just 20 years.