A new study projects widespread habitat loss for European snakes under climate change, with cold-adapted species most vulnerable, while the Balkan Peninsula becomes a climate refugium.

A joint results conference of nine projects from the Transformative Change Cluster will bring together around 150 participants from science and policy on 4–5 June 2026 at Comet Louise, Brussels.

Honey bees may be accidentally spreading one of Australia's most destructive plant diseases - and thriving on it. A study published in NeoBiota reveals that the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) actively forages on myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii) spores, providing high-quality nutrition to bee colonies while unknowingly dispersing a destructive plant pathogen across vast distances.

In early April, a collaborative team of scientists and divers from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, the U.S. Geological Survey’s St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, and the National Park Service outplanted almost three dozen two-year old elkhorn corals (Acropora palmata) to three reef sites in Dry Tortugas National Park.