Biodiversity research has long focused on the number and identity of species, but recent advances suggest that ecosystem functioning depends on how sp…

Phylogenetic and taxonomic metrics can be useful ways to explore how the reintroduction of fire influences plant community assembly and diversity patterns. We leveraged a dataset of plant community s...

Sea-level rise (SLR) threatens terrestrial biodiversity, yet its spatiotemporal and species-specific impacts remain unclear. Integrating relative SLR projections across five Shared Socioeconomic Pathw...

A 1,000-year lake-sediment record from southeastern Australia shows that colonial disruption of Indigenous cultural burning transformed open woodland into dense, flammable forest, priming the landscap...

The suppression of Indigenous burning practices probably spurred the growth of flammable forests.

Following severe drought and fire, some tree species experience increased tree mortality, topkill (death of above-ground biomass) and lower rates of seedling recruitment at the dry edge of their rang...

An analysis of a global database of 423 studies and >200,000 data points outlines the strength and generality of biodiversity relationships with ecosystem functioning and services.

Researchers say that a vote to reject the epoch violated procedure and call for transparency.

Analysing a global database of migration timing for 549 bird species together with a full annual cycle theoretical model, the authors show that migration has advanced by >13 days since 1970 and tha...

Nature Geoscience spoke with Ana Bastos (Leipzig University, Germany) and Sonia I. Seneviratne (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) about how climate change is reshaping forest ecosystems, how forests and land-u...

Freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened by biological invasions, but it remains unclear why some exotics are more likely to be successf...

Diversos estudios han alimentado la idea de que la protección de espacios naturales favorece la acumulación de vegetación y el riesgo de incendio. Pero los datos no demuestran esa relación causal.

Fire governance must move beyond uniform suppression toward legitimate, adaptive, and context-specific policies aligned with ecological dynamics and local livelihoods, based on evidence from Madagasca...

Nature - Artificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data — but humans still need to decide what makes sense.

Northern Hemisphere trees planted in the Southern Hemisphere can thrive, displaying increased stem growth and physiological signals linked to reduced stress.

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data on outbreaks are currently limited by inequalities in healthcare access.

There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.

From southern Africa to the Amazon, the risks are mounting and the window for action is rapidly closing.

The first cycle of national reporting under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework revealed that a gap persists between what parties must measure and what most report. Closing this impleme...

This week in the United States, a Trump administration rule took effect that narrows the meaning of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act by abandoning a long-standing interpretation that recognized...

Ecologists testing “assisted migration” are pushing seedlings to the limits—and finding that location matters

The extreme weather of this year’s mega El Niño could look different from past events.

La nueva página web de la Dirección General de Agricultura (DG AGRI) explica el papel de la agricultura y la silvicultura en la lucha contra los incendios forestales. Asimismo, explica la importancia ...

Aquatic invertebrates are exceptionally nutrient dense, supplying the equivalent annual vitamin B12 and selenium requirements for over 5 billion people.

The awards highlight weird, funny and improbable research that also makes you think.

Non-native conifers from the Northern Hemisphere grow faster and are more drought resistant and resilient in the Southern Hemisphere, where they seem to escape the growth–stress-tolerance trade-off.