Increasing the speed of scientific progress is urgently needed to address the many challenges associated with the biosphere in the Anthropocene. Co...

Aquaculture has become an established and important part of the global food system. Several critiques of aquaculture continue to resurface, seemingly ignoring past research and improvements of (1) aq....

Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

For a second time in three weeks, a swarm of jellyfish has forced the closure of a nuclear reactor in France in another curious incident in which jellyfish entered the filters of the water cooling sys...

Indonesia has more tropical peatland than any other country, but it is also quickly losing this poorly understood ecosystem.

Anciently introduced species can be confounded with native species because introduction pre-dates the first species inventories or because of the loss of the collective memory of the introductions. T...

Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

Researchers have recently found that sacred waters protected by Indigenous traditions are key to fish conservation in Indonesia, yet they remain largely unrecognized and excluded from national framewo...

Political will is among the most important factors in preventing tropical deforestation, according to a group of experts surveyed for a new study — with strong political commitment often arising out o...

Scientific Data - Swiss data quality: augmenting CAMELS-CH with isotopes, water quality, agricultural and atmospheric data

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Why it takes so long before stricter rules come around PFAS, while it is clear that they are harmful

Amphibians are among the most threatened groups of vertebrates worldwide and spend a significant part of their lifecycle in freshwater ecosystems. As for many freshwater organisms, monitoring thei...

Amidst the rapid degradation of the environment, protected areas act as a buffer for sensitive species against drivers of change. The Kruger National Park, in the Zambezian Lowveld Freshwater Ecoregi...

Sludge used as fertiliser on farmland contains harmful chemicals that scientists suspect are entering food chain

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Bettas of Bangka Island are small fishes who can breathe atmospheric oxygen and construct nests out of air bubbles and saliva to protect their eggs and young.

Aim The late-Quaternary extinctions, which affected primarily large mammals, are strongly connected to the migration of modern humans out of sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia (the Palaeotropics),...