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Book Review |
Dodging bandits, eking out food: tracking wildlife in Mongolia
Star field biologist and explorer George Schaller penetrates another isolated wilderness. By Tom McCarthy
- Tom McCarthy
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Editorial |
Warning from the tropics: rainforests are losing their ability to help humanity
New analysis of carbon from tropical forests suggests the need for yet faster emissions reductions.
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Nature Podcast |
Podcast: Mapping fruit flies’ neural circuitry, and perfecting the properties of metallic glass
Hear the latest science updates, brought to you by Benjamin Thompson and Nick Howe.
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Where I Work |
Growing baby corals in a broom cupboard
Marine biologist Jamie Craggs studies coral reproduction in a tight, dark space as he prepares to reseed reefs damaged by climate change.
- Kendall Powell
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News |
Hundreds of bird species in India are declining
A landmark report finds waterbirds and raptors are among the most at risk.
- Shreya Dasgupta
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News & Views |
Biodiversity theory backed by island bird data
Analysis of a unique global data set reveals how the species diversity of birds is affected by the properties of archipelagos and offers a way to test an influential theory. Has this improved our understanding of island biodiversity patterns?
- Kostas A. Triantis
- & Thomas J. Matthews
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Comment |
Set a global target for ecosystems
The conservation community must be able to track countries’ progress in protecting wetlands, reefs, forests and more, argue James Watson and colleagues.
- James E. M. Watson
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- & Emily Nicholson
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Where I Work |
Helping to support threatened marine life
Marine ecologist Graham Edgar aims to understand how little-noticed undersea species interact, and how humans disrupt that behaviour.
- Josie Glausiusz
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Research Highlight |
Fishing for fun takes a massive bite out of marine life
Hobbyists’ harvest of sharks and rays has soared, and catch-and-release is no solution.
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News & Views |
From the archive
How Nature reported a controversy in 1970 over the harm caused by fallout from nuclear testing, and a 1920 call to end the trade in exotic bird plumage.
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Where I Work |
Alone where seals bark in the mist
Mary-Anne Lea travels to remote coastal regions to study marine animals for insights into conserving their species.
- Kendall Powell
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Research Highlight |
After Colombia’s civil war ended, so did ‘gunpoint conservation’
The rebels’ departure from their rainforest strongholds triggered mass deforestation.
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News & Views |
Large African herbivores have helped to repair their environment
The reintroduction of ruminant herbivores to a national park in Mozambique has controlled the encroachment of a notoriously invasive plant species.
- Andrew Mitchinson
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News & Views |
From the archive
How Nature reported the establishment of a wildlife sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean in 1920, and a wry analysis of whether procreation causes heart attacks.
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Research Highlight |
Bridges in the sky help slow lorises keep to the trees
Endangered primate cannot leap between isolated clumps of rainforest but can easily navigate artificial walkways.
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Where I Work |
A quest to save frogs
Powering through floods, exhaustion and tick bites is all in a day’s work for Jodi Rowley.
- Amber Dance
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Nature Podcast |
Podcast: How to save coral reefs as the world warms
Listen to an audio version of our feature article by Amber Dance.
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News & Views |
From the archive
How Nature reported a boost for research into human intestinal protozoa in 1919, and a European celebration of conservation in 1969.
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Nature Video |
Researchers replanting reefs one coral at a time
Lab-bred coral larvae could provide stopgap for damaged reefs
- Dan Fox
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News Feature |
These corals could survive climate change — and help save the world’s reefs
Ocean warming threatens to wipe out corals, but scientists are trying to protect naturally resilient reefs and are nursing some others back to health.
- Amber Dance
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Editorial |
Open data could save more tigers
India’s government has a duty to give researchers access to the raw data on this threatened species.
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News & Views |
Robust evidence of declines in insect abundance and biodiversity
Data are mounting that document widespread insect losses. A long-term research project now provides the strongest evidence of this so far, and demonstrates the value of standardized monitoring programmes.
- William E. Kunin
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Nature Podcast |
Podcast: An AI masters the video game StarCraft II, and measuring arthropod abundance
Hear the latest science news, with Benjamin Thompson and Shamini Bundell.
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News Feature |
India’s tigers seem to be a massive success story — many scientists aren’t sure
Researchers question official figures showing a sharp rise in the tiger population, and the country’s plans to protect the species.
- Gayathri Vaidyanathan
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News Round-Up |
Swine flu snipers, Alzheimer’s drug push and Google’s latest gaming bot
The latest science news, in brief.
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Article |
Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers
Analyses of a dataset of arthropod biomass, abundance and diversity in grassland and forest habitats in Germany for the period 2008–2017 reveal that drivers of arthropod declines act at the landscape level.
- Sebastian Seibold
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Where I Work |
Homing in on the jaguar
Kerrie Mengersen recreates South American jungle habitats in virtual reality to understand better the threatened jaguar.
- Kendall Powell
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Books & Arts |
When capitalisms collide
Diane Coyle compares three tomes by big thinkers on prosperity, justice and environmental health.
- Diane Coyle
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News |
Sweeping extent of global trade in wild animals revealed
Comprehensive study of mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles finds that nearly one-fifth of vertebrates are bought and sold around the world.
- Giorgia Guglielmi
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Toolbox |
Deep learning powers a motion-tracking revolution
A surge in the development of artificial-intelligence technology is driving a new wave of open-source tools for analysing animal behaviour and posture.
- Roberta Kwok
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News Feature |
The ecologist who wants to map everything
Thomas Crowther wants to restore the planet, but first he needs to know how many trees, fungi, worms and microbes live on it.
- Aisling Irwin
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Letter |
Wilderness areas halve the extinction risk of terrestrial biodiversity
Wilderness areas with minimal levels of human disturbance promote the persistence of biodiversity by acting as buffers against species loss, and therefore represent key targets for environmental protection.
- Moreno Di Marco
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Correspondence |
Foster local expertise in Botswana’s elephant-hunting debate
- Masego J. Mokobela
- , Graham Kerley
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Correspondence |
China fortifies marine protection areas against climate change
- Yunzhou Li
- , Yiping Ren
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Editorial |
Take action to stop the Amazon burning
The planet’s largest rainforest is on fire. Brazil and the world must halt the destruction before it’s too late.
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News & Views |
Concerns that captive breeding affects the ability of monarch butterflies to migrate
Monarch butterflies’ ability to migrate over long distances is impressive. Evidence that some monarchs reared in captivity have impaired migratory skills compared with wild monarchs has conservation implications.
- Karen S. Oberhauser
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Research Highlight |
The crop that’s gobbling up a vast Brazilian ecosystem
But all is not lost: targeted soya-bean planting could help to preserve the country’s species-rich savanna.
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Nature Podcast |
Podcast: Atomic espionage in the Second World War, and exploring the early Universe
Hear the latest from the world of science, with Benjamin Thompson and Nick Howe.
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News |
Trump administration weakens Endangered Species Act
Changes to the United States’ landmark conservation law make it easier to strip threatened species of the strongest protections.
- Jonathan Lambert
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News |
Giant freshwater fishes are in alarming decline
The plunge in numbers of these enormous species is part of a broader downward trend in freshwater megafauna.
- Amy Maxmen
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Nature Podcast |
Podcast: A mindset for success, and mercury in fish
Listen to the latest science news, with Noah Baker and Nick Howe.
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News & Views |
Industrial fishing boats leave few safe havens for sharks on the high seas
Global satellite tracking of the oceans has revealed a high degree of spatial overlap between where sharks and industrial fishing vessels are found. This finding underscores the need for shark-conservation efforts.
- Julia K. Baum
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Research Highlight |
Vanilla grown the old-fashioned way spices up plant life
Time-honoured methods of raising vanilla orchids are friendliest for native plants.
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Article |
Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries
A global dataset of the satellite-tracked movements of pelagic sharks and fishing fleets show that sharks—and, in particular, commercially important species—have limited spatial refuge from fishing effort.
- Nuno Queiroz
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- & David W. Sims
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News |
Ocean snail is first animal to be officially endangered by deep-sea mining
Valuable metals and minerals pepper the creature's habitat, drawing commercial interest to the sea floor.
- Jonathan Lambert
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Books & Arts |
Darwinian bee-keeping: lessons from the wild
A timely treatise on the plight of the honeybee Apis mellifera grips Gene E. Robinson.
- Gene Robinson