A friend of mine once rode his bicycle from the coast of Washington state across the country to Maine. In that long journey he crossed through four different biomes and entered one biome twice, on ...

We have a lot to learn still, but as we show in our research, using current ecological knowledge more effectively could deliver substantial environmental gains. Our work focuses on improving links ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The combined effects of humanity’s actions are making ecosystems less resistant to change, and threatening the vital ecosystem services humanity ...

Dying coral reefs, rainforests transforming into savannas, grasslands turning into deserts – these are ecosystem “tipping points”, boundary lines we’re desperate not to cross. In dynamic systems ...

Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology and writes on topics from zoology and psychology to herpetology. Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology and writes on ...

Why are we crossing ecological boundaries that affect Earth’s fundamental life-supporting capacity? Is it because we don’t have enough information about how ecosystems respond to change? Or are we ...