A shiny, metallic-blue tarantula is Sri Lanka’s latest addition to the Indian Ocean island’s list of spiders, a new study reveals. The discovery comes as a global summit on wildlife trade takes place in Geneva,…
Brazil forest fires rage as farmers push into…
Nearly 73,000 fires were recorded between January and August, compared with 39,759 in all of 2018, according to the latest figures from INPE, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, which monitors forest fires in the…
As Oceans Warm, Tropical Corals Seek Refuge in…
From the shores of Florida to the islands of Japan, from the Midway atoll to southern Australia, an unheralded ecological regeneration may be underway. Reef-building coral, which has become ever more threatened in the superheated…
Soils linked to climate change
Figure 1 | Wildfires in Canadian boreal forests. Walker and colleagues5 analysed the type of carbon lost from organic soils under black spruce in forests of the Northwest Territories of Canada after fires.Credit: Focus/eyevine Boreal…