Pollinators, including bees, butterflies, and beetles, shape global food production and support vast natural ecosystems. For ...

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California, ...

Up to two thirds of the world’s temperate rainforests could fall victim to climate change by the year 2100 according to a new study by researchers at the University of Leeds. In the first ever ...

Temperate rainforests are among the rarest habitats on Earth, supporting unique biodiversity and providing vital benefits ...

Luke Skywalker’s childhood might have been slightly less harsh if he’d grown up on a more temperate Tatooine — like the ones identified in a new, Yale-led study. According to the study’s authors, ...

Phylogenetic niche conservatism posits that species tend to retain ancestral ecological traits and distributions, which has been broadly tested for lineages originating in tropical climates. In ...

The impacts of climate change in the Arctic now appear to be affecting the lives of millions of people living in more temperate regions, as Nick Sundt reports in the WWF US Climate Blog. The impacts ...

I spent most of the first 18 years of my life in Delhi, India, where it felt like the weather was out to get me. In the summers, it wasn’t uncommon for my friends to faint due to heatstroke in the ...

In previous research, it has been assumed that insects in temperate regions would cope well with or even benefit from a warmer climate. Not so, according to researchers. The earlier models failed to ...

Albert Van Dijk receives or has previously received funding from several government-funded agencies, grant schemes and programmes and undertakes occasional consultancies. Hylke Beck and Pablo Rozas ...