It's not just Victoria's iconic mountain ash trees at risk – it's every species in their community

Oct 06, 2023 07:03 am UTC| Nature

When we think of extinction, we think of individual species. But nature doesnt operate like that. Entire communities and even whole ecosystems are now so compromised they could be lost entirely. Australia now has about 100...

Fossil snake traces: another world-first find on South Africa's Cape south coast

Oct 06, 2023 06:53 am UTC| Nature

Snakes are familiar, distinctive and often feared reptiles. And theyve been around for a long time: body fossils found in the UK, Portugal and the US stretch all the way back to the late Jurassic period, about 150...

Atomo Coffee Unveils Beanless Brew, Aiming to Combat Deforestation, Climate Change

Oct 05, 2023 09:44 am UTC| Economy Nature Business

A Seattle-based startup supported by Beyond Meat investors is set to revolutionize the coffee industry with its groundbreaking beanless coffee. Atomo Coffee aims to minimize the environmental impact of the popular beverage...

Jellyfish: our complex relationship with the oceans' anti-heroes

Oct 02, 2023 08:51 am UTC| Nature

Ding! The courier hands me an unassuming brown box with live animals plastered on the side. I begin carefully unboxing. The cardboard exterior gives way to a white polystyrene clamshell, cloistering a pearly sphere-shaped,...

How the age of mammals could end

Oct 02, 2023 08:16 am UTC| Nature

Throughout the past 500 million years, our planet has experienced a total of five mass extinctions. One of these the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event led to the demise of roughly 90% of Earths species. Most of...

Emperor penguins face a bleak future – but some colonies will do better than others in diverse sea-ice conditions

Oct 02, 2023 06:23 am UTC| Nature

The long-term future looks bleak for Emperor penguins, but our new research shows some birds may be able to survive in certain conditions, depending on where they live, at least for the next few decades. Over the past...

Climate Change Series

The green energy surge still isn't enough for 1.5 degrees. We'll have to overshoot, adapt and soak up carbon dioxide

Sep 29, 2023 01:57 am UTC| Nature

It was a rare bit of good news on climate. The International Energy Agency this week released its latest net zero roadmap, showing it was still just possible to hold global heating to 1.5℃. In the last two years, weve...