Plankton have pivotal roles in biogeochemical cycling, carbon sequestration, climate regulation and functioning of marine food webs 1. These roles critically depend on the composition of the plankton ...

Halting the accelerating decline of global biodiversity requires robust models to project future changes and inform policy decisions. Climate models, especially model intercomparison projects, were ...

Sea urchins climb onto kelp when their densities are so high they remove all drift kelp and then actively forage on attached, living kelp. (Credit: Steve Lonhart / NOAA MBNMS) Tipping points are the ...

QUT researchers have developed a pioneering mathematical framework to help "pick winners" and maximize limited funding and resources when investing in technologies to protect threatened ecosystems, ...

A recent Minnesota Pollution Control Agency report found that climate change could cost Minnesotans more than $20 billion a year by 2040. This is just the local cost of a global problem. Ecosystem ...

Institute for Advanced Study Professor Alondra Nelson, a co-leader of the initiative, speaks at The Public's Science research workshop. UC Santa Cruz Professor of Sociology Jenny Reardon, who is ...

St. Joseph High School’s seventh grade science students recently turned in three-dimensional models of six different ecosystems. The models were biomes, a large geographical region on Earth ...