Big storms with lots of flooding, like hurricanes Dorian and Maria, actually restore the Caribbean’s delicate balance between native and nonnative fish species, new research finds.
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Stages worldwide seem to have been taken over by musicals made for movie-lovers. While this creative process has a long history, it can limit opportunities for original works.
The fish at your favourite lake may be outsmarting you.
A shift in climate, along with other environmental disruptions and the invasion of competitors and new predators all likely played an important role in reshaping ancient elephants’ brains.
Many people think climate change caused Classic Maya civilization to collapse abruptly around 900 A.D. An archaeologist says that view is too simplistic and misses the bigger point.
We like to think that all creatures play a role in the local ecosystem. We’re especially interested in insects that provide a benefit for people too. But that’s not always how it is.
Biologists investigated whether birds that search for multiple mates would evolve ever more elaborate songs to attract them. What they found might have surprised Darwin.
Citizen science game offered clues to why shore crabs get greener as they grow.
Hazardous professions including agriculture and heavy engineering are already having to find ways to adapt.
Climate change is a serious threat now for poor people in developing countries, but the COP24 conference in Poland offered them little hope of near-term emissions cuts or economic aid.
Mangrove forests grow in the tidal lagoons of tropical coastlines and they could actually benefit from climate change. Here’s what that means for us.
Natural selection isn’t the only factor deciding human evolution.
Coastal development is destroying marshes, mangroves and other wetlands that provide valuable protection from hurricanes and storms. Research shows these benefits can be worth millions of dollars.
In the future, Europe will suffer from more heat waves as well as extreme rainfall, presenting new challenges for planners and health care services. Building resilient cities can help.
As delegates meet in Bonn for the latest rounds of climate talks, civil society, NGOs, cities, regional governments and businesses, are stepping up to work together toward climate goals.
The Trump administration’s decision to dismiss or accept a government-prepared climate report will have life-or-death consequences, says a climate scientist involved in the previous report.
Australia’s animals and plants are already demonstrating their resilience to climate change.
Talk of adapting to climate change is less polarizing to conservatives than the idea of slashing emissions.
Do organisms adapt after they arrive in new environments or are the adaptations what lets them to move to new locations?
For over four centuries, Shakespeare’s plays have been picked apart and reimagined.
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Professor of Biogeography and Spatial Ecology, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Georgia Institute of Technology
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ICLEI Professor of Practice - Local Government Climate Resilience, La Trobe University
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Principal Research Scientist, University of British Columbia
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Research professor, RMIT University
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Casual Academic, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Miami
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Researcher in Climate and Inequality, University of the Witwatersrand
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, UCL
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Dean's Professor of English and Professor of Theatre, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences