A field-based study from the Yunkai Mountains reveals divergent elevational diversity responses between overstory tree and understory plant communities, highlighting the necessity of integrating vertical stratification and full elevational gradients for tropical mountain biodiversity conservation.

What happens when researchers from engineering, entomology, geology, economics and other fields tackle water problems together? Kansas State University's CoSearch workshop is turning unexpected collaborations into new approaches to groundwater quality, water reuse and agricultural sustainability.

Letting late summer weeds grow could help honeybees when they find it most challenging to gather nectar, according to new research published in the British Ecological Society journal, Functional Ecology.

Over the last quarter of a century, the edge of the summer sea-ice in the Greenland Sea has shrunk steadily northwards. Now, researchers have shown from systematic surveys and field reports that this change has drawn exceptionally large congregations from three species of baleen whales to the coastal waters east of Greenland, adding up to approximately 16,000 animals per summer. The authors concluded that the whales have moved in to feed en masse on capelin, a fish that has recently shifted its geographic distribution northwards towards these exceptionally fast-warming waters.

Global mangrove cover -- vegetation vital to tackling climate change -- has increased over the past 40 years, despite significant losses in some key regions, according to new analysis.

In the last few centuries, animals have been going extinct at least 100 times faster than they did before humans arrived on the scene. So who will be next? Which species are most likely to survive and which will die out? A study of extinction patterns among 210 species of tropical forest mammals worldwide shows that, when deciding which species need protecting, extinction risk factors of the past can be powerful — but they’re not perfect.

In British zoos and aquariums, fewer than 10% of the vertebrate species are native to the UK, and just 2% are high conservation priority, according to a study by Justin Lennon at the University of Brighton and colleagues, publishing August 19, 2026 in the open access journal PLOS One.