A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world ...

These fossils were found at a site called McGraths Flat, located north of Gulgong in New South Wales, about a four-and-a-half-hour drive from Sydney — this site preserves a rainforest ecosystem ...

Ecological network management provides key mechanistic knowledge on ecosystem degradation that links species- to ecosystem-level responses to global change, and emerging technological tools offer the ...

A new study reports that some tropical tree species are not only ... challenges in the sustainable management of coastal ecosystems, yet researchers have found that Pacific oysters introduced ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — A comprehensive study of the long-term health impacts of flooding -- via analysis of over 300 million hospitalizations records in eight countries prone to flooding events -- has ...

This results in a cooling of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. The enhanced trade winds also help to pile up warm surface waters in the western Pacific and to the north of Australia. The ...