I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the

Many thoughts on rising application numbers and peer review

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...

This study demonstrates that the mobile laser scanning (MLS) sampling density required to reliably characterise vegetation structure increases with a site's structural complexity. Applying a five-lev....

Sex-specific responses to ocean warming shape thermal tolerance, fitness, and metabolomic profiles in a keystone amphipod. Females exhibit higher thermal limits and broader safety margins than males....

The Mayor Oak is located within Sherwood Forest & believed to be 800 - 1,100 years old. With a girth of 10.76m, this tree appears to have grown in a clearing for most of its long life which enable...

The curious case of funder costs. Why less might not be more.

In this week’s newsletter: The melting of the Arctic’s summer sea ice is the most visible upshot of the climate crisis. Refreezing it might be a long shot – but do drastic times call for drastic measu...

Step through the story: A hidden infrastructure — an interactive exploration of Earth’s underground fungal networks.

The Mayor Oak is located within Sherwood Forest & believed to be 800 - 1,100 years old. With a girth of 10.76m, this tree appears to have grown in a clearing for most of its long life which enable...

After a decade-long search, researchers have identified East Asia’s tallest known tree, the “Heaven Sword of the Da’an River,” in Taiwan.

We analyzed over 170,000 tropical ecology publications (1960–2023) using a large language model to extract study location and biome information at scale. We show that research has grown across all bi....

The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

The rapid expansion of biodiversity data presents new opportunities to understand and forecast biosphere dynamics. However, disparate and dispersed data, taxonomic and geographic inconsistencies, ...

Wildfires, insect outbreaks, and storms cause large pulses of tree mortality. Climate change amplifies these forest disturbances, yet their future magnitude and extent remain uncertain. Here, we simul...