Warming water and receding sea ice in the Western Antarctic Peninsula is changing the local plankton community with potential consequences for climate change, according to research led by scientists from Duke University and Duke Kunshan.

Pollinating insects such as bees, butterflies, hoverflies and wasps, interact more with plants at well-managed farmland ponds than those that are severely overgrown by trees, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

In June 2021, algal slicks painted the waters green off Qingdao, China, during the region’s largest bloom on record.

One of the big unknowns about the future Arctic is whether plant communities around the Northern Hemisphere will continue to increase their carbon uptake as atmospheric CO2 rises.

Recent years have seen a spate of coral bleaching events, where reefs stressed by unusually warm waters turned white.

Disappearing habitats and use of pesticides are driving the loss of pollinator species around the world, posing a threat to “ecosystem services” that provide food and wellbeing to many millions – particularly in the Global South – as well as billions of dollars in crop productivity.

Sea surface temperatures are a fair predictor of the readiness of the ocean to fuel and sustain storms.

Forests are not only key to moderating our climate by sequestering atmospheric carbon, but they also create a cooling effect by increasing low-level cloud.

Researchers have shown that human-caused climate change will have important consequences for how volcanic gases interact with the atmosphere.

Fires in the country have consumed five times as much land as they do in an average year.