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A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondônia, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators.

The noise pollution from ocean vessels has become a pressing issues for marine animals that use sound to communicate, with whales struggling to migrate through the noise.

Most estuary conversion took place in rapidly developing, middle-income countries, highlighting opportunities for action to protect these economically and environmentally important landscapes.

Swimming in schools makes fish surprisingly stealthy underwater, with a group able to sound like a single fish.

Engineered bacteria can produce a plastic modifier that makes renewably sourced plastic more processable, more fracture resistant and highly biodegradable even in sea water.

The researchers estimate that, by 2050, a global dietary shift from red meat to seafood could help avoid 500,000–750,000 annual deaths from ischemic heart disease (IHD), strokes and other diseases associated with meat consumption.

In the seventh century, Anglo-Saxon England began to revive the use of silver coins. New tests have traced this silver to the Byzantine Empire and Charlemagne’s Francia, highlighting deep international trade connections across medieval Europe.

Common “hard” coastal defenses, like concrete sea walls, might struggle to keep up with increasing climate risks. A new study shows that combining them with nature-based solutions could create defenses which are better able to adapt.

The boreal forests and tundra of Canada and Alaska may be among the worst areas impacted by climate change over the next 500 years.

For every tenth of a degree of increase in global air temperature, an average of nearly 9,000 meteorites disappear from the surface of the ice sheet in Antarctica.