Tag: Ecosystems
Raining cats and dogs: Global precipitation patterns a driver for animal diversity
Since the HMS Beagle arrived in the Galapagos with Charles Darwin to meet a fateful family of finches, ecologists have struggled to understand a...
Picky green sea turtle has travelled to the same place to eat for generations
For approximately 3,000 years, generations of green sea turtles have returned to the same seagrass meadows to eat. This was discovered by Willemien de...
Marine fossils are a reliable benchmark for degrading and collapsing ecosystems
Biologists attempting to conserve and restore denuded environments are limited by their scant knowledge of what those environments looked like before the arrival of...
Welcome to the Anthropocene, Earth’s new chapter
Since 2009, a cloistered band of hard-rock geologists and other scientists have toiled on a mission of great consequence.
On Tuesday they will deliver the...
Why do we find so much amber in Cretaceous rocks?
What would a traveller from the future think if one day s/he could analyze the rocks that are currently forming on the planet? Surely,...
Shrinking Arctic glaciers are unearthing a new source of methane
As the Arctic warms, shrinking glaciers are exposing bubbling groundwater springs which could provide an underestimated source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, finds...