All posts by Daniel T Cross
Forests and green urban areas can help embattled insects
Climatic conditions play an increasingly important role for the maintenance of pollinator diversity.
A hardy plant could help us fortify stressed crops
Photo: José Dinneny Most plants handle adverse conditions like droughts by scaling back their biological functions or even shutting down entirely. Not so extremophytes, which have evolved to endure and even thrive in conditions that would be deadly to other
Intensive agriculture and climate change are threatening insects worldwide
The environmental harms of high-intensity agriculture present a challenge as we try to keep up with food demands.
Poachers claim the lives of endangered Sumatran tigers
Deforestation and poaching mean the tigers could end up extinct like their Javan and Balinese counterparts.
Indigenous lands in the Amazon are bulwarks against deforestation
Indigenous reservations comprise just under 14% of Brazil's territory, covering some 110 million hectares of native vegetation.
Climate change will wreak havoc with marine food webs
Over200 years of warming, species are going to continually reshuffle and be in the process of shifting their ranges.