Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Carlos Roberto Fonseca, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in Brazil, discusses his article: The Red Queen unveils the sexual and mating strategies of flowers In 1876, Charles Darwin wrote the book “The effects of cross and self-fertilization in the vegetable kingdom” to answer a simple, but important question: if self-fertilisation is the […]

On 12 May 2026, the European Commission’s hosted a high-level stakeholder roundtable on the review of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), bringing together close to 60 representatives from a wide range of industry, aviation and maritime sectors covered by the EU ETS, as well as civil society organisations and  other relevant stakeholders such […]

We discovered that climate change could dramatically break the natural highways that connect coral reefs across the southwestern Pacific Ocean, but one location may survive as a critical refuge. Coral reefs don’t exist in isolation. When reefs are damaged by bleaching or storms, they recover through baby corals (larvae) that drift from healthy reefs on […]

Álvaro Gaytán and Lorena Gómez-Aparicio, Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville (IRNAS-CSIC), discuss their article: Evidence for linkages between the root elementome and oak decline in Mediterranean systems invaded by soil-borne pathogens Mediterranean woodland in southern Iberia, where holm oaks and dense shrublands shape one of Europe’s most biodiverse landscapes (photo by Lorena Gómez-Aparicio). […]

Image shows an analysis of total ozone column over the Antarctic (Antarctica-centric Map). The blue colours indicate lowest ozone columns, while yellow and red indicate higher ozone columns. Ozone columns are commonly measured in Dobson Units. One Dobson Unit is the number of molecules of ozone that would be required to create a layer of […]

Grasslands account for approximately 40% of the Earth’s land area and are the largest natural ecosystem apart from forests. Livestock grazing is currently the most important human activity in grasslands, with a persistent and strong impact on both the aboveground plant community and underground organisms. Soil microbiota are the most numerous, most diverse, and functionally […]

Jiayun Zou, Technical University of Munich, discusses his article: Biodiversity associations between aboveground and belowground communities in mountain forests across different climatic regions How tightly are the biological communities above and below the forest floor connected? In mountain forests, those associations remain poorly understood. While plants and soil microbes interact intimately, such as through symbioses […]

On 20 November 2025, the Commission received a notification in the sense of Article 12(4) of Directive 2003/87/EC (‘ETS Directive’) from Germany, concerning its intention to voluntarily cancel allowances associated with the closure of electricity generation capacities in 14 ETS installations in its territory in 2024 due to additional national measures. Following a request by […]

Moscovitz et al. share their experience comparing between predation preferences of a prawn and a crayfish over four species of snails which are aquacultural pests, explaining the observed preferences – or lack thereof – by quantifying snail traits. Freshwater snails are tiny – but in aquaculture systems, they loom large. In fishponds around the world, […]

Henrique Augusto Mews, Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis in Brazil, discusses his article: Unravelling the drivers of island species richness in tropical savannas Many landscapes contain “island-like” habitats: patches of suitable conditions surrounded by an inhospitable matrix. How species diversity is regulated in these systems remains surprisingly poorly understood. In tropical savannas, such as the Cerrado […]