Note: PLOS issued the following press release on February 1, 2022 The Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced that PLOS Climate…
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Climate Change PLOS Climate publishes first papersRead more
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Climate Change PLOS Climate Editor-in-Chief Emma Archer answers your questionsRead more
Ahead of the publication of PLOS Climate’s first articles, Editor-in-Chief Emma Archer answers a selection of questions submitted by you. Tell us…
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Climate Change Coming Down the Mountain: How Changes in the Water Cycle are Affecting Mountain EcosystemsRead more
As plants take in sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow, they also respire or “breathe” out part of that carbon dioxide back…
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Biodiversity Mark Twain and The Big Stump: Can We Save Nature From Ourselves?Read more
As you enter Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park from highway 180 there is a small little parking lot to the side…
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Biodiversity The Birds That Start Fires: Using Indigenous Ecological Knowledge to Understand Animal BehaviorRead more
I don’t remember too much from the eighties–other than Nintendo, Sonic, and how cool the Ghostbusters were. But I do clearly remember…
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Biodiversity Saving Species from OurselvesRead more
A recent opinion piece in the Washington Post from Dr. Robert Alexander Pyron has created quite the stir in the conservation and…
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Climate Change Climate Change is Increasing Mosquito Habitat RangesRead more
This month, we are taking a closer look at some of the articles chosen as part of the PLOS Ecological Impacts of Climate…
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Climate Change Behavioral Flexibility May Help Some Animals Deal with a Changing ClimateRead more
A new study by the U.S. Geological Survey and its partners has identified the circumstances in which some animals change their behaviors…
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Climate Change Polar Bears, Ringed Seals, and the Complex Consequences of Climate ChangeRead more
It’s well known that climate change is bad news for polar bears, but they are just one part of Arctic ecosystems. Climate…
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Climate Change Changing Our Attitudes Towards Invasive “Alien” SpeciesRead more
Above, zebra mussels on a native mussel; it has been estimated that invasive zebra mussels have cost Canada and the United States…
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Climate Change Invasive Wild Pigs Leave a Swath of Destruction Across U.S. – And They Keep SpreadingRead more
They go by many names: wild boar, wild hog, razorback, Eurasian boar, feral swine. But whatever you call them, invasive wild pigs…
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Biodiversity What’s so “bad” about the Badlands, anyway?Read more
Authorized as a National Monument in 1929 and redesignated as a National Park in 1978, Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota…