Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Marcelo Sternberg, Tel Aviv University, discusses his article: Rainfall memory and spring atmospheric demand predict herbaceous biomass production in Mediterranean ecosystems When the same amount of rain does not produce the same amount of plants In Mediterranean ecosystems, rainfall seems like the obvious place to look when trying to understand plant production. More rain should […]

Melisa A. Giorgis, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, discusses her article: Post-fire trajectories reveal a legacy effect and decoupled structural and floristic responses in a seasonally dry subtropical mountain region, in both English and Spanish. A complex debate Many areas of the world with open vegetation are at the center of extensive debates in scientific, […]

Fishing nets set on the seafloor accidentally catch and kill thousands of small whales and dolphins every year. This accidental capture, known as bycatch, is one of the biggest human-caused threats to these animals. In the Baltic Sea, harbour porpoises are particularly affected by bycatch in fishing nets. Although many studies have investigated how well […]

Rivers around the world are under pressure because we extract water and change river flows. To help protect wildlife, managers release “environmental flows” to support ecosystems. But decisions about how to release environmental flows are often based on long-term predictions, which can be uncertain and hard to test. In this study, we took a different […]

Last month, the British Ecological Society’s Rewilding Special Interest Group hosted Rewilding and 30 by 30 at ZSL in London, a one-day symposium on how rewilding can contribute to the global target of protecting 30% of land and sea by 2030. Guillemette Gandon is an Associate Programme Officer at the UN Environment Programme World Conservation […]

Lindsay Trottier, McGill University in Canada, discusses her article: Extending the leaf economics spectrum: Freshwater plant communities exhibit realm-specific leaf adaptations If I asked you to think of a plant, what image comes to mind? A rose? A pine tree? Maybe a grass? If you’re like the majority of people, odds are you didn’t imagine […]

Elinor Fajer, Harvard University, and Peter Pellitier, University of Utah, discuss their article: Ectomycorrhizal communities underlie trade-offs between greater long-term tree growth and reduced soil carbon concentrations in boreal forests Boreal forests are one of the most carbon-rich ecosystems on Earth. Belowground, the soils store massive amounts of carbon-rich organic matter, and aboveground, long-living trees […]

Olivia from Spain was just 13 when she developed the Jelly Cleaner – a simple filtering device made from two plastic bottles and a pair of tights to trap microplastics and clean the ocean. Now a European Climate Pact Ambassador, Olivia has gone on to give numerous presentations on the Jelly Cleaner, climate change and the health of the oceans to schools, universities, and international organisations.   She is fired up by […]