Rivers support billions of people but are among the least protected parts of nature. A major review shows what needs to be done as climate change accelerates.
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Small streams are vital for nature and river flows, yet largely overlooked Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin plan.
Our energies would be better spent tackling the tangible effects of global heating than debating the future dollar value of failing to act.
Understanding how humans came to exert such enormous pressure on Earth’s ecosystems can inform more sustainable ways of living.
Britain has lost large areas of semi-natural habitat since the 1930s.
Forest fragmentation is causing the deepest and darkest parts of the world’s forests to shrink.
The merits of the dingo fence are hotly debated, and there have been calls to pull it down. We need a better understanding of how the mega-structure affects species that live along it.
Time-lapse animations that once took days to create are now easy to build with publicly available satellite images and free online tools.
Atmospheric dust storms often follow wildfires and have serious impacts on human health and ecology.
Humans have long struggled to understand the nocturnal world. As environmental change becomes increasingly acute, understanding their lives has never been more critical.
The end-Triassic mass extinction was a cataclysm for the world’s prehistoric species, killed off by volcanoes that altered Earth’s seas and skies. But new research shows it didn’t happen when we thought.
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Biogeography, Node & Stream Leader for ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, University of Technology Sydney; Australian Museum
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Lecturer in Imperial and Environmental History, University of Bristol
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Assistant Professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Modern and Environmental History, University of Bristol
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Conservation and Forestry, Bangor University
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Professor in Evolutionary Biology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Physical Geography, University of Plymouth
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Organic and Isotope Geochemistry, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Landscape Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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Associate Professor of Geography and Sustainability, University of Tennessee
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Executive Director, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon
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Researcher, Curtin University
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Assistant Professor in Environmental Data Science, Aarhus University