Rising global population coexposure to heatwaves and landscape fire-sourced air pollution

Landscape fires are increasingly threatening public health by causing substantial fire-sourced air pollution (SFAP), with risks amplified during heatwaves. We investigated the global spatial, temporal...

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Global conservation area coverage substantially exceeds current estimates - Nature

A globally representative sample of 25 countries and territories indicates that conservation areas cover 26.81% of the land, much closer to the 30% by 2030 target than officially reported.

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Biodiversity enhances pond ecosystem multifunctionality across Europe - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Ponds are hotspots of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. This study of 206 European ponds across multiple taxonomic groups finds that aquatic biodiversity greatly enhances pond ecosystem multifunct...

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From species richness to interaction architecture

Biodiversity research has long focused on the number and identity of species, but recent advances suggest that ecosystem functioning depends on how sp…

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Pyrodiversity and Phylodiversity: Insights on Post‐Fire Forest Communities

Phylogenetic and taxonomic metrics can be useful ways to explore how the reintroduction of fire influences plant community assembly and diversity patterns. We leveraged a dataset of plant community s...

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Bienvenido - AEET, Sfe2 & EEF Joint Meeting 2027

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Safeguarding global terrestrial vertebrate species from future sea-level rise

Sea-level rise (SLR) threatens terrestrial biodiversity, yet its spatiotemporal and species-specific impacts remain unclear. Integrating relative SLR projections across five Shared Socioeconomic Pathw...

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Australia’s current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change - Nature

A 1,000-year lake-sediment record from southeastern Australia shows that colonial disruption of Indigenous cultural burning transformed open woodland into dense, flammable forest, priming the landscap...

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Australia’s bush fires got worse after British colonization — this is why

The suppression of Indigenous burning practices probably spurred the growth of flammable forests.

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Tree Species Vulnerability to Fire Increases at Dry Range Edge

Following severe drought and fire, some tree species experience increased tree mortality, topkill (death of above-ground biomass) and lower rates of seedling recruitment at the dry edge of their rang...

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Biodiversity safeguards ecosystem services and functions worldwide - Nature Ecology & Evolution

An analysis of a global database of 423 studies and >200,000 data points outlines the strength and generality of biodiversity relationships with ecosystem functioning and services.

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Battle of the Anthropocene: allegations re-ignite row over proposed geological epoch

Researchers say that a vote to reject the epoch violated procedure and call for transparency.

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Avian migration timing advances linked to season-dependent population benefits - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysing a global database of migration timing for 549 bird species together with a full annual cycle theoretical model, the authors show that migration has advanced by >13 days since 1970 and tha...

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Forests under climate stress - Nature Geoscience

Nature Geoscience spoke with Ana Bastos (Leipzig University, Germany) and Sonia I. Seneviratne (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) about how climate change is reshaping forest ecosystems, how forests and land-u...

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Functional similarity shapes global patterns of fish naturalization and invasion richness | PNAS

Freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened by biological invasions, but it remains unclear why some exotics are more likely to be successf...

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¿Arden más los espacios protegidos? Cuando los datos no justifican el relato

Diversos estudios han alimentado la idea de que la protección de espacios naturales favorece la acumulación de vegetación y el riesgo de incendio. Pero los datos no demuestran esa relación causal.

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Resolving the fire governance paradox in an increasingly fire-prone world - Communications Earth & Environment

Fire governance must move beyond uniform suppression toward legitimate, adaptive, and context-specific policies aligned with ecological dynamics and local livelihoods, based on evidence from Madagasca...

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AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done

Nature - Artificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data — but humans still need to decide what makes sense.

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Conifer trees can prosper half a world away from their usual home

Northern Hemisphere trees planted in the Southern Hemisphere can thrive, displaying increased stem growth and physiological signals linked to reduced stress.

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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data on outbreaks are currently limited by inequalities in healthcare access.

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How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking

There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.

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Systems Ecology

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The worst El Niño in recorded history is brewing — here’s how governments must prepare

From southern Africa to the Amazon, the risks are mounting and the window for action is rapidly closing.

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