Coral reefs are among our planet’s most complex and biodiverse ecosystems and play vital roles in social-ecological systems, but they are also…
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Climate Change Coral reef research in PLOS Climate
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Climate Change Behind the paper: changing forests on the US East Coast
We speak to Marcelo Ardón and colleagues about their recent PLOS Climate publication, “Coastal carbon sentinels: A decade of forest change along the eastern shore of the…
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Climate Change Behind the paper: investigating potential biases in coral reef temperature data
We speak to Wally Rich and colleagues about their recent PLOS Climate publication, “Widespread inconsistency in logger deployment methods in coral reef…
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Biodiversity Discover ecological research in PLOS Climate
In this blog post, we highlight broad-ranging recent research and commentary published in PLOS Climate, spanning marine and terrestrial ecosystems, biodiversity conservation…
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Climate Change Facing Climate And Ecological Breakdown Requires A New Vision For Education And Politics
Until the recent arrival of pre-monsoon showers, the sky above Kathmandu was a near-permanent haze of pollution. An unusually hot and dry…
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Ecology Announcing a PLOS Water Mini Collection: ‘Urbanization and Stream Ecology’
Urban, suburban, and exurban land comprises a large and increasing footprint on our planet. Human development has traditionally occurred around rivers, with…
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Ecology River Restoration
Understandings of the impacts of infrastructure placement like dams and weirs, and channelization, on flow and sediment regimes in rivers, have produced…
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Biodiversity Climate Change Impacts on Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems
As part of the IPCC’s AR6 cycle, Working Group II- which focuses on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability- published their most recent report…
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Biodiversity Explore the Environmental Policy Collection
Our new Curated Collection on Environmental Policy brings together policy perspectives and policy-relevant research from across PLOS’ environmental journals: PLOS Climate, PLOS Sustainability…
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Climate Change Behind the paper: climate-related hypoxia events erode tropical reef habitat
In this post, we speak to Noelle Lucey and Curtis Deutsch, authors of the recent PLOS Climate article “Climate warming erodes tropical reef habitat through…