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Marching in the streets for climate-crisis action
Conservationist Charlie Gardner explains why he joined Scientists for Extinction Rebellion and its civil-disobedience protests.
- Christine Ro
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Research Highlight |
The Black Death devastated parts of Europe — but spared others
Analysis of fossil pollen suggests that populations in some areas grew despite the plague’s rampage.
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Correspondence |
Brazil opens highly protected caves to mining, risking fauna
- Hernani Fernandes Magalhaes de Oliveira
- , Daiana Cardoso Silva
- & Fabricius Maia Chaves Bicalho Domingos
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Where I Work |
Grape expectations: making Australian wine more sustainable
Geoff Gurr is working on an eco-friendly approach to controlling pests in New South Wales vineyards.
- Benjamin Plackett
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Obituary |
Richard Leakey (1944–2022)
Palaeontologist of human origins, conservationist and politician.
- Marta Mirazón Lahr
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Matters Arising |
Emphasizing declining populations in the Living Planet Report
- Gopal Murali
- , Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano
- & Uri Roll
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Matters Arising |
Reply to: Do not downplay biodiversity loss
- Brian Leung
- , Anna L. Hargreaves
- & Robin Freeman
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Matters Arising |
Reply to: Emphasizing declining populations in the Living Planet Report
- Brian Leung
- , Anna L. Hargreaves
- & Robin Freeman
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Matters Arising |
Reply to: Shifting baselines and biodiversity success stories
- Brian Leung
- , Anna L. Hargreaves
- & Maria Dornelas
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Matters Arising |
Reply to: The Living Planet Index does not measure abundance
- Brian Leung
- , Anna L. Hargreaves
- & Robin Freeman
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Matters Arising |
Do not downplay biodiversity loss
- Michel Loreau
- , Bradley J. Cardinale
- & Claire de Mazancourt
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Matters Arising |
The Living Planet Index does not measure abundance
- Mikael Puurtinen
- , Merja Elo
- & Janne S. Kotiaho
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Book Review |
A call for governments to save soil
To ensure food security, the world must stop letting fertile soil wash and blow away.
- Emma Marris
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Nature Video |
Tiny feather wing beetle reveals new way to fly
How a novel flying technique copes with the weird physics of miniature flight
- Adam Levy
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Editorial |
Biodiversity faces its make-or-break year, and research will be key
A new action plan to halt biodiversity loss needs scientific specialists to work with those who study how governments function.
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Correspondence |
Portugal leads with Europe’s largest marine reserve
- Filipe Alves
- , João G. Monteiro
- & João Canning-Clode
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Nature Podcast |
Recreating the lost sounds of spring
How citizen science is helping us hear lost soundscapes.
- Geoff Marsh
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Correspondence |
Wind power versus wildlife: root mitigation in evidence
- Tim Schmoll
- & Frank M. Schurr
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Correspondence |
Two million species catalogued by 500 experts
- Mark John Costello
- , R. Edward DeWalt
- & Olaf Banki
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Correspondence |
EU Nature Restoration Law needs ambitious and binding targets
- Kris Decleer
- , Jordi Cortina-Segarra
- & Aveliina Helm
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News & Views |
From the archive
Nature’s pages consider decision making during conflicts about planning permission, and feature an exhibition of scientific instruments.
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News |
Landmark Colombian bird study repeated to right colonial-era wrongs
A re-run of a 100-year-old, US-led bird survey will inform future conservation efforts — but be helmed by local researchers.
- Luke Taylor
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Obituary |
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)
Naturalist, conservationist and synthesizer who founded sociobiology.
- Bert Hölldobler
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Article
| Open AccessEmergence of methicillin resistance predates the clinical use of antibiotics
Methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus appeared in European hedgehogs in the pre-antibiotic era as a co-evolutionary adaptation to antibiotic-producing dermatophytes and have spread within the local hedgehog populations and between hedgehogs and secondary hosts.
- Jesper Larsen
- , Claire L. Raisen
- & Anders R. Larsen
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SARS-CoV-2 infection in free-ranging white-tailed deer
More than one-third of wild deer tested in northeast Ohio showed evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection of human origin.
- Vanessa L. Hale
- , Patricia M. Dennis
- & Andrew S. Bowman
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Nature Podcast |
The Nature Podcast annual holiday spectacular
Games, seasonal science songs, and Nature’s 10.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Noah Baker
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Editorial |
Sustainability at the crossroads
A look back at 2021 through the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Article
| Open AccessExperimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations
In a 15-year whole-ecosystem, single-factor experiment, stopping experimental mercury loading results in rapid decreases in methylmercury contamination of fish populations and almost complete recovery within the timeframe of the study.
- Paul J. Blanchfield
- , John W. M. Rudd
- & Michael T. Tate
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Perspective |
Biogeochemical extremes and compound events in the ocean
High-temperature, high-acidity and low-oxygen extremes may pose a particular threat to marine ecosystems, requiring a major effort to understand them and the ability of marine life to respond to them.
- Nicolas Gruber
- , Philip W. Boyd
- & Meike Vogt
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Towards the biogeography of prokaryotic genes
A survey of species-level genes from 13,174 publicly available metagenomes shows that most species-level genes are specific to a single habitat, encode a small number of protein families and are under low positive (adaptive) pressure.
- Luis Pedro Coelho
- , Renato Alves
- & Peer Bork
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Research Highlight |
Snake escape: imported reptiles gobble an island’s lizards
King snakes brought to Gran Canaria have multiplied, wreaking havoc on all of its native reptiles.
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Editorial |
The UN must get on with appointing its new science board
The decision to appoint a board of advisors is welcome — and urgent, given the twin challenges of COVID and climate change.
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to increasing CO2
An emergent constraint combining biosphere models and carbon budget estimates suggests that the increase in the global terrestrial carbon sink is caused largely by a CO2-induced increase in photosynthesis.
- T. F. Keenan
- , X. Luo
- & S. Zhou
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Where I Work |
Handling snakes for science
Eletra de Souza’s research aims to help decrease lethal strikes in Brazil.
- Virginia Gewin
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Where I Work |
‘For a brown invertebrate’: rescuing native UK oysters
Tom Cameron works with local oyster growers to restore native oysters to their natural habitat in the United Kingdom.
- Virginia Gewin
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Research Highlight |
Hard times tear coupled seabirds apart
Even birds get divorced, and, as in humans, resource constraints can drive more couples to the brink.
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Matters Arising |
Reply to: Spatial scale and the synchrony of ecological disruption
- Christopher H. Trisos
- , Cory Merow
- & Alex L. Pigot
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Correspondence |
Link knowledge and action networks to tackle disasters
- Jim Falk
- , Rita R. Colwell
- & Cherry A. Murray
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News Round-Up |
‘Brumby’ cull, carbon rebound and a giant research index
The latest science news, in brief.
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Where I Work |
‘I have to use a torch and watch my step’: netting seabirds at night
Kendrew Colhoun tracks the movements of migratory birds in Ireland.
- Chris Woolston
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News |
Whales’ gigantic appetites, climate fears — the week in infographics
Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.
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Nature Video |
Whale-cams reveal how much they really eat
Baleen whales consume twice as much krill as previously estimated.
- Sara Reardon
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News |
COP26 climate pledges: What scientists think so far
Nations have promised to end deforestation, curb methane emissions and stop public investment in coal power. Researchers warn that the real work of COP26 is yet to come.
- Ehsan Masood
- & Jeff Tollefson
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News & Views |
A whale of an appetite revealed by analysis of prey consumption
Reaching a deeper understanding of the ocean ecosystems that maintain whales might aid conservation efforts. Measurements of the animals’ krill intake indicate that previous figures were substantial underestimates.
- Victor Smetacek
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News & Views |
A seagrass harbours a nitrogen-fixing bacterial partner
How underwater seagrasses obtain the nitrogen they need has been unclear. Evidence has now emerged of a partnership with a bacterium that might be analogous to the system used by many land plants to gain nitrogen.
- Douglas G. Capone
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Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements
A combination of 3D whale locations and acoustic measurements of prey density is used here to show that whales’ consumption of krill is several times larger than often thought.
- Matthew S. Savoca
- , Max F. Czapanskiy
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| Open AccessTerrestrial-type nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between seagrass and a marine bacterium
The N2-fixing symbiont ‘Candidatus Celerinatantimonas neptuna’ lives inside the root tissue of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica, providing ammonia and amino acids to its host in exchange for sugars and enabling highly productive seagrass meadows to thrive in the nitrogen-limited Mediterranean Sea.
- Wiebke Mohr
- , Nadine Lehnen
- & Marcel M. M. Kuypers
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