When the Arctic polar vortex is especially strong and stable, the coldest polar air stays in the Arctic.

In light of the United Nations (UN) declaration that 2021-2030 is the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a group of scientists voice concerns about restoration in heavily fragmented landscapes under a hotter and drier future scenario.

Researchers have found that nitrogen-fixing legume trees can support themselves and surrounding trees not only with increased access to nitrogen but with other key nutrients through enhanced mineral weathering. 

In early 2021, authorities warned about potentially toxic blooms at a popular recreational lake in New South Wales.

Record-breaking deep freeze engulfed much of Texas.

The work of Texas A&M researchers is helping engineers better assess the vulnerability of coastal landscapes.

Surface meltwater ponding is potentially dangerous to ice shelves.

Insects that fall from the surrounding forest provide seasonal food for fish in streams. Researchers at Kobe University and The University of Tokyo have shown that the lengthening of this period has a profound effect on food webs and ecosystem functions present in streams.

Many species might be left vulnerable in the face of climate change, unable to adapt their physiologies to respond to rapid global warming. 

Forager ants do it, vampire bats do it, guppies do it, and mandrills do it. Long before humans learned about and started “social distancing due to COVID-19,” animals in nature intuitively practiced social distancing when one of their own became sick.