In a warming corner of Iceland, tiny soil microbes are quietly rewriting one of Earth’s most fundamental life-support systems. Instead of passing nitrogen along to plants, they are increasingly ...

Microplastics are now widely recognized as pollutants in oceans and waterways, but a growing body of research suggests they ...

Irvine, Calif., Feb. 4, 2025 — Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ocean. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Soils play a central role in the climate system, regulating processes such as carbon storage, water dynamics, nutrient cycling and ecosystem productivity.

The effects of the steadily increasing amount of plastic in the ocean are complex and not yet fully understood. Scientists have now shown for the first time that the uptake of microplastics by ...

Yellow crazy ants are rewriting the ecological rules of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, by ...

Nutrient cycling of stream ecosystems dependent on portion of salmons' lifecycle. Adult Pacific salmon spend a great portion of their life in the ocean. But their life began along the banks of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Fire is not natural to Australia, as incomprehensible as that may seem today. When humans first landed on the northern shores it was a very ...