A rash of white shark attacks this summer points to a rebounding population in the US – a sign of healthier oceans and the need to coexist with this apex predator.
Laudato Si’ challenges us to examine the root causes of environmental ills and injustices.
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The pope’s encyclical challenges the belief in markets to solve social ills – a difficult message for Catholic Republican presidential candidates to accept.
As a geopolitical figure, the pope has urged the West to combat global poverty and preserve the environment.
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The pope’s encyclical turns climate change into a moral discussion by focusing on the disproportionate impact of climate change on poor countries and regions.
You couldn’t just plop dinosaurs anywhere and expect them to survive.
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Sometimes the best way to deal with mountains of data is to turn to the public for help. That’s what Snapshot Serengeti did to classify millions of photos from savanna camera traps in Tanzania.
These frogs are among the world’s smallest vertebrates.
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We spend much of our time inside buildings. What chemicals and microbes are in here with us? And how do they affect each other? One scientist collects dust to find out.
You can’t hide from global warming, Mr Wabbit.
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Rabbits and hares will flee towards the poles as global warming changes the places they once called home.
The discovery of the genes that influence the beak shape in the famous Galapagos finches highlight the underlying unity of all life.
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Darwin’s finches are known to be a paragon of evolution by natural selection, but a recent genetic discovery relating to their beaks highlights the evolutionary connectedness of all life.
In the Anthropocene, human-driven forces are shaping the planet in ways that may risk the collapse of human civilisation.
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The Anthropocene, as an epoch of human-driven planetary change, poses huge environmental and political problems. But it could also force us to develop proper ecological and democratic accountability.
The Bellinger Snapping Turtle is under threat, and that bodes ill for the entire ecosystem.
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The humble sparrow represents a conduit to nature for many, and its wellbeing is connected to ours. That’s reason enough to celebrate World Sparrow Day.
Luminous fungi have evolved pale green light to attract insects to spread their spores.
TERN operates a number of flux towers that measure energy, water and carbon dioxide fluxes and their drivers in the vast expanse of northern Australia.
The NCRIS-funded Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) benefits pastoralists, business, tourism and Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. Cutting it will hurt them all.
Cane toads are still spreading across northern Australia.
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Cane toads, introduced in 1935 to control cane beetles, have now spread across a huge swathe of Australia, from the Kimberley in northern Western Australia to northern New South Wales. They’re still spreading…
Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University