The British Ecological Society’s (BES) Marsh Award for Climate Change Research has been awarded to the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Professor Wendy Foden, a world-leading researcher in climate change vulnerability
Professor Richard Cowling of the African Centre for Coastal Paleoscience at Nelson Mandela University has spearheaded international research discovering why the tropics and a handful of other areas
By Ambre Nicolson The vast array of species that inhabit the oceans has already proven to be an important source of innovative resources, including enzymes for COVID-19
By KIM CLOETE A study by a trio of researchers and published in Nature has revealed that the disruption of biodiversity from climate change on land and in the oceans
When New Zealand’s beech trees seed, they produce a bounty of food for native birds – and the mammals that feed on them. These seeding events – called masts –
By Fiona Fox This blog contains the thoughts of the author rather than representing the work or policy of the Science Media Centre. Last week we ran press
