A landfill-fire plume may need more than the usual benzo[a]pyrene test
Polish fire-residue chemistry distinguished direct contact hazard from modeled water mobility.
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Ecology, evidence and perspective.
An automated root-fungus detector needed field-trained categories
MycorrhizaFinder addresses a laboratory-to-field transfer problem in ecological AI.
Antarctic pteropod size tracked water conditions—not a demonstrated warming response
Ross Sea shell measurements offer an exploratory baseline for pelagic food-web monitoring.
A Brazilian sinkhole yielded two previously undescribed aquatic beetles
Yearlong sampling of a single karst pool broadened the known habitats of riffle beetles.
Bromeliad pools shared most microbes but differed in predicted jobs
Two co-occurring Brazilian plants reveal within-habitat diversity hidden by a single microbial list.
Different soil-mapping methods change how much land looks critically acidic
An Upper Blue Nile field and Sentinel-2 study makes interpolation uncertainty a management concern.
Tanzanian beekeepers already know the flora; the bottleneck is farther down the chain
Meru District respondents linked floral resources to quality while identifying training and marketing gaps.
A California delta is powered by invasive plants as well as river carbon
Eleven years of oxygen records expose linked carbon pathways in a heavily modified estuary.
Blue carbon credits depend on institutions as much as sediment
Chinese programs show the gap between measuring a carbon sink and sustaining a credible commitment.
An invasive-species map changes when one watershed has several gateways
Lake Balaton, a thermal lake and fishponds tell distinct histories of non-native aquatic species.
Why 96% of reef ecoregions are rated critically endangered—and why that is not 96% collapse
The IUCN's first global reef ecosystem Red List separates observed damage from modeled future warming risk.
A mostly clean Arctic fish survey found one PFAS hotspot that changes the monitoring question
Brooks Range sampling found widespread low contamination but a conspicuous industrial-adjacent exception.
A handheld laser scanner saw woodland fuels a low-cost drone often missed
Twelve Mediterranean oak plots tested canopy-fuel estimates relevant to fire-risk assessment.
A highly forested tree city still undersupplied specialist flower visitors
Campo Grande has year-round street-tree flowering, but its resource network favors generalized insect visitors.
The IPCC's evidence network is broader but still geographically concentrated
More than 67,000 references show citation diversity rose from AR5 to AR6, while richer countries remained dominant.
A protected angelshark nursery is not a predator-free refuge
Citizen scientists documented six batoid predation events involving young angelsharks in Canary Island nursery waters.
Fossil spores may move the origin of crown land plants
Reconstructed spore traits suggest a Late Ordovician crown-embryophyte origin.
Water-use efficiency trends differ within Iran's drylands
Remote sensing suggests increasing carbon assimilation relative to water loss in some mapped ecosystems.
Polish soils supply water and carbon-related functions together
Agricultural soil indicators covary with texture, carbon stocks, vegetation and water storage.
Portable eDNA sequencing worked—but missed much of the known fish diversity
Field analysis in Norway identified 26 fish and ray species compared with 51–65 in previous surveys.
Northeast Brazil drought projections emphasize longer episodes
Across 82 hydrographic microregions, projected dry sequences become more persistent even when local trends are uneven.
Solar canopies over aquaculture ponds have theoretical energy potential
A satellite-and-energy model estimates large electrical output under substantial pond coverage.
Tracked manta rays ignore national boundaries
Young giant mantas remained near coastal habitats while tracked adults often migrated across jurisdictions.
Tarim Basin water savings remain a cropping-scenario estimate
Modeled crop substitution and wider drip irrigation could save blue water in arid northwest China.