This study shows a pronounced increase in spring fire activity across continental tropical Asia since 2001, driven by human activity and natural climate variability, with distinct regional drivers sha...

Aim People have strongly influenced the biosphere for millennia, but how their increasing activities have shaped wildlife distribution is incompletely understood. We examined how the distribution of...

Scientific Data - Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring

Dehradun: Electrocution, railway collisions, poaching, and widespread habitat loss have emerged as the leading causes of elephant deaths across India,.

This systematic map aims to collate and synthesize global evidence on the methods and metrics used to assess the effectiveness of terrestrial PAs in biodiversity conservation.

Nature Reviews Biodiversity - The terrestrial ecosystems of Southeast Asia are both globally important reservoirs of biodiversity, and a provider of resources and livelihoods for millions of people...

Drying continents, extreme drought, and groundwater depletion are shrinking water availability and increasing sea level rise.

Tropical dry woodlands provide ecosystem services to hundreds of millions of people and support high biodiversity. Despite their importance, many dry woodlands are under high and rising human pressur...

One of Africa’s largest protected areas has been shaken by a series of attacks by Islamic State-linked extremists, which have left at least 10 people dead. Conservationists in Niassa reserve, Mozambique, say decades of work to rebuild populations of lions, elephants and other keystone species are being jeopardised, as conservation operations grind to a halt. On 29 April, militants attacked buildings in Niassa…

Natural regeneration is one way that forests can recover after disturbance or deforestation, in addition to active restoration or reforestation. This Review, focused on tropical forests, discusses wha...

A review of restoration efforts in the Western Himalayas found that government-run afforestation initiatives led the way in Himachal Pradesh.

The first roads that cut through rainforests are well-known conduits for deforestation. However, new research finds that secondary roads, those that branch off the primary road, cause far more forest ...

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene - Volume 2

An analysis of global deforestation linked to consumption of products in the supply chains of large economies finds greater losses for vertebrate species’ ranges outside these countries than in them.

The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.

<em>Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment</em> is an environmental science journal publishing articles that address current and emerging ecological and environmental issues.

With an election under way, the future of Indian science is on the ballot. Encouraging research and critical thinking should be a priority for the new government. With an election under way, the futur...