Nigel Stork

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August 6, 2025

Climate‑fuelled El Niño events are devastating butterflies, beetles and other tropical insects

Nigel Stork, Griffith University and Adam Sharp, University of Hong Kong

The research suggests the life-support system underpinning the tropics is at serious risk in a warmer world.

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March 16, 2022

To get to the rainforest canopy, it helps to have a crane

Nigel Stork, Griffith University; Claire Gely, James Cook University, and Susan Laurance, James Cook University

The best way to experience a rainforest canopy is by crane - and researchers have made full use of Australia’s first canopy crane.

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September 1, 2021

Decaying forest wood releases a whopping 10.9 billion tonnes of carbon each year. This will increase under climate change

Marisa Stone, Griffith University; David Lindenmayer, Australian National University; Kurtis Nisbet, Griffith University; Sebastian Seibold, Technical University of Munich, and Nigel Stork, Griffith University

This is the first time researchers have calculated the amount of carbon released from the world’s decaying wood. They found insects play an enormous role.

There are roughly 5 million species on earth. Most are insects. Roger Smith

January 25, 2013

We can name all of Earth’s species, but we may have to hurry

Nigel Stork, Griffith University

There has been enormous uncertainty amongst the scientific community on just how many species there are on Earth and how rapidly we are losing them through extinction. Given that taxonomists have described…

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Climate‑fuelled El Niño events are devastating butterflies, beetles and other tropical insects

To get to the rainforest canopy, it helps to have a crane

Decaying forest wood releases a whopping 10.9 billion tonnes of carbon each year. This will increase under climate change

We can name all of Earth’s species, but we may have to hurry

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