Hundreds of experts write to environment minister calling for stronger protections for ‘unique and distinct’ marine ecosystems

The ongoing global decline of coral reefs underscores the need to identify key mechanisms driving reef deterioration. The Flower Garden Banks (FGB) reefs in the northern Gulf are widely regarded as so...

Green energy keeps the lights on, heat impacts on children, and how to Play it Cool Europe endured a succession of scorching heat waves this

The number of dugongs in the Gulf of Carpentaria, one of the animal's most globally important populations, has halved in the past two decades, a decline scientists have called a "real shock".

It’s always thoughts and prayers and please don’t politicise this horrible disaster

Once driven to the brink of extinction, humpback whales have thrived in the South Atlantic since a worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling came into force in 1986, offering a bonanza to scientists…

Analyses of the relationship between taxon richness and multi-trophic ecosystem functioning across marine, lake, stream and soil ecosystems show that food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects...

A new report presented by the European Environment Agency (EEA) confirms the dire state of Europe’s seas, which are at the frontline of a growing triple crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change and

Generates balancing weights for causal effect estimation in observational studies with binary, multi-category, or continuous point or longitudinal treatments by easing and extending the functionality ...

Although the physical and ecological impacts of marine heatwaves are well recognized, their cascading consequences for human health remain poorly understood. We argue that marine heatwaves pose growin...

Scientists documented humpback whales hunting together at the seafloor, coordinating their arrival to scoop up sand lances.

The octopus lifestyle of ‘live fast, die young and make lots of babies’ mean their populations respond quickly to a changing environment. How fisheries respond remains to be seen

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

The Tropical Eastern Pacific Marine Conservation Corridor (CMAR) was established in 2004 through the cooperation of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama with the objective of safeguarding the mig...

Quasi-experimental analysis of the effects of Ethiopia’s protected areas on environmental and human wellbeing is combined with surveys of conservation professionals to explore why improving protected ...

Report shows region is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Scientists have discovered an enormous whale graveyard about 1,200 km long, which seems big but then so are whales * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

A wild migratory bird in Western Australia has returned a suspected positive result for avian influenza, which has devastated populations of seabirds, seals and other animals across the world.

Biogeography and ecology have long developed in parallel. This Essay explores how new data on species interactions across large scales now allow their integration, opening fresh insights into how biod...