Ecology, The Environment and Conservation

This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.

innovations-report offers informative reports and articles on topics such as climate protection, landscape conservation, ecological systems, wildlife and nature parks and ecosystem efficiency and balance.

Protecting species for the good of global climate

How climate can benefit from the conservation of biodiversity. When the global community is expected to meet for the second part of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, in…

Pathogens can hitch a ride on plastic to reach the sea

Microplastics can carry land-based parasites to ocean, affecting wildlife and human health. Microplastics are a pathway for pathogens on land to reach the ocean, with likely consequences for human and…

Meet the forest microbes that can survive megafires

Burns allow fungi, bacteria to transform redwood forests. New UC Riverside research shows fungi and bacteria able to survive redwood tanoak forest megafires are microbial “cousins” that often increase in…

Breakthrough in estimating fossil fuel CO2 emissions

A team of scientists led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has made a major breakthrough in detecting changes in fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions more quickly and frequently….

Lesser known ozone layer’s outsized role in planet warming

Air pollution heating up the Southern Ocean. New research has identified a lesser-known form of ozone playing a big role in heating the Southern Ocean — one of Earth’s main…

Microplastics – Conducting research and raising social awareness

Between 19 and 21 million tons of plastic waste end up in the world’s waters every year. The trend has been rising strongly over the last decade. To meet the…

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