The major funder of basic science has not said how its new initiatives will be funded — but staff worry streamlined approach will further squeeze cash for core sciences.

Climate change impacts in the Amazon, particularly heat and drought extremes, are increasing faster than average climate trends, with especially rapid changes in the central-northern region that has s...

Metz T, Bachmann JT, Blüthgen N, Gross T (2026) Complexity promotes stability in mutualistic networks through weaker mutualistic dependencies: Insights from Generalized Modelling. Journal of Animal Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70344

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JAKARTA — Tropical primary forest loss fell sharply in 2025, dropping 36% from the record highs of the previous year, according to new data from a long-running satellite monitoring project. Non-fire…

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A tropical forest can regrow quickly. What is harder to see is how long full ecological recovery takes. A pasture left to regenerate may, within a few decades, resemble a forest again. But resemblance...

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Assessment of how 16 taxonomic groups in a lowland tropical forest resist and recover from anthropogenic disturbance shows the potential of protecting naturally regenerating secondary forests to reverse biodiversity losses.

Megalopta from Quininde, Ecuador on October 15, 2021 at 05:42 AM by Philipp Hoenle

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Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

Deforestation in the region of Maraba, Para state, Brazil Key findings US financial institutions made $5.4 billion from deforesting companies between 2016-2024, with Vanguard, JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock the top earners. EU bank...

Veggie-Schnitte statt -Schnitzel? Straßburg hat über die Bezeichnung von Fleischalternativen entschieden. Nun müssen die Staaten ausloten, ob solche Produkte bald nicht mehr Wurst oder Schnitzel heiße...

Landim et al. show that seed-dispersal interactions require about two decades to functionally recover in tropical forests in Ecuador, but the recovery time of seed-dispersal functions is delayed in pa...

Jane Goodall, whose lifelong work as a primatologist helped broaden the world’s understanding of animal behavior and emotions, has died, her institute said Wednesday. She was 91.