The Fort McMurray wildfire in Alberta. Canada, now at well over half-a-million acres in size and still out of control as of…
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Climate Change Playing with matches: Incorporating human activity into wildfire forecasting
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Biodiversity Paying for rainforests: current PLoS research on the economic valuation of ecosystem services by Katie Barry
The above image was taken of rainforest patrol workers in Viet Nam as part of the Forest Ecosystem Services unit (Asian Development…
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Biodiversity Remotely-sensed cloud cover predicts biodiversity & climate change vulnerability
The above image is of the Sahel in central Africa (creative commons license). The modern world is in the midst of…
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Climate Change Outside the lab: The wild, wonderful world of fieldwork
Scientists don’t necessarily spend all of their time at the lab bench. There are the intrepid, the brave, the field scientists. Those…
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Climate Change Becoming a Salmon: Highlighting deeper questions in education, decision making and ecology through simulation
Water bubbles and the distant rumble-swoosh of rapids can be heard upstream. On shore the occasional bird calls from the surrounding forest…
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Climate Change Ice ages and suffocating ocean zones: reconstructing past oxygen minimums with an eye to the future
A recent paper published in PLOS ONE uses geochemical and fossil evidence from the period of global warming at the end of…
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Biodiversity City lights, urban sprawl, and uncovering the future of ecology with Dr. Peter Groffman
“For a long time in environmental science we’ve done a pretty good job of keeping people outside the box of ecosystems” says…
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Climate Change Where have all the flowers gone: complexity & worldwide bee declines by Nicole Miller-Struttmann
Photograph above courtesy of the author (N. Miller-Struttmann): B. frigidus pollinating C. scopulorum. Guest Post by Nicole Miller-Struttmann, Assistant Professor of Biology…
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Climate Change More research highlights from the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting
The 2015 AGU Fall Meeting was filled with many highlights, from R2-D2 to Elon Musk. PLOS Ecology’s own Jens Heggs wrote about…
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Climate Change AGU 2015: Takeaways from the largest earth and space meeting in the world.
Between December 14th-18th this year nearly 24,000 people descended on downtown San Francisco for the largest earth and space sciences meeting in…
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Climate Change Toward a sensory ecology of luminescent noses by Nathaniel J Dominy
Above image by Annie Fischinger (creative commons license) Guest Post by Nathaniel J. Dominy, Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College; OpEd Project Public Voices…
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Climate Change Wind farms: Why their carbon footprints matter as much as their locations By Robert Wilson
By Robert Wilson Seasonal and daily patterns of electricity consumption follow almost identical forms everywhere. Demand is low in the middle of…