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Catastrophic Climatic Events Leave Corals Facing a Decade-Long Fight for Recovery
June 1, 2013 — Coral reefs can take more than a decade to recover from catastrophic climatic events, with some species taking up to 13 years to recolonise their original habitats, scientists have ... > full story -
Microbial Changes Regulate Function of Entire Ecosystems
May 31, 2013 — A major question in ecology has centered on the role of microbes in regulating ecosystem function. Now scientists show how changes in the populations of methanotrophic bacteria can have consequences ... > full story -
Elevated Carbon Dioxide Making Arid Regions Greener
May 31, 2013 — Scientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observed since the early 1980s in satellite data, springs at least in part from the increasing concentration of ... > full story -
Climate Change Threatens Extinction for 82 Percent of California Native Fish
May 30, 2013 — Of 121 native fish species in California, researchers predict 82 percent are likely to be driven to extinction or very low numbers as climate change speeds the decline of already depleted ... > full story -
Croaking Chorus of Cuban Frogs Make Noisy New Neighbors
May 30, 2013 — Scientists have shown the adverse impact of invasive frog species’ ... > full story -
Human Activity Echoes Through Brazilian Rainforest
May 30, 2013 — The disappearance of large, fruit-eating birds from tropical forests in Brazil has caused the region's forest palms to produce smaller, less successful seeds over the past century, researchers say. ... > full story -
Rainforests Take the Heat, Paleontologists Show
May 30, 2013 — Rainforests thrived during previous global warming events, say ... > full story -
Why Female Loggerhead Sea Turtles Always Return to Their Place of Birth
May 30, 2013 — For a better protection of marine turtles, scientists are trying to understand why they return to their birthplace in order to reproduce after rather long distance migrations. Using molecular tools ... > full story -
Land-Based Carbon Offsets: False Hope? Forest and Soil Carbon Is Important, but Does Not Offset Fossil Fuel Emissions
May 30, 2013 — Leading world climate change experts have thrown cold water on the idea that planting trees can offset carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. Land carbon sinks cannot solve the problem of ... > full story -
More at-Risk Bird Species in Brazilian Forest Than Previously Thought
May 29, 2013 — In a new study, a team of researchers has applied a novel method for linking large-scale habitat fragmentation to population ... > full story
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