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Changing boreal tree densities lead to higher wildfire risk and alter crucial forest functions
| The extensive northern forests of Canada, Alaska and Siberia are about to fundamentally change their tree density because of climate change. According... -
'Stickiness' of rarity and the universal dance of dominance
| In a revelatory exploration of biodiversity, a recent study has exposed the universal principles governing the dominance and rarity of species across... -
A just world on a safe planet: First study quantifying safe and just Earth System Boundaries
| Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilisation and everything that lives on Earth, a new study published in the journal Nature... -
A population that trusts each other recovers more rapidly from a covid-peak
| Not trust in the government and its institutes, but trust in one’s fellow humans is strongly linked to the speed with which the infection and... -
New techniques allow medicine to see the whole again
| Medical diagnoses mostly focuses on resolving isolated issues. But, fixing one problem may create others and even invoke an overall health collapse....