Leading maritime engineering specialists, marine ecologists, and biodiversity experts, gathered in Barcelona between 7 and 9 October to officially kick start the project’s vision on climate-resilient coastal landscapes. Hosted by the Maritime Engineering Laboratory from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the meeting focused on setting the strategic direction of the project, aligning the scientific, technical and communication objectives and establishing synergies between project partners across Europe and beyond. 

Kyoto, Japan -- Life-history variation is fundamental to the long-term persistence of populations and species because it ensures their ability to adapt to changing environments. Many important studies have focused on life-history variation between habitats, but the variation maintained within a habitat has often been overlooked.

Unravelling this puzzle at the landscape level is critical for understanding the spatial scales at which adaption and population persistence operate in nature. This motivated a team of researchers at Kyoto University to investigate life-history variation in masu salmon.

"We wanted to understand how the variation in life-history is partitioned within and among habitats across heterogeneous landscapes," says first author Takeya Shida.

University of Sydney researchers studied how simple, low-cost cooling strategies can protect garment workers from extreme heat stress, threatening their health and productivity amid rising global temperatures. Their findings highlight practical alternatives to air conditioning that can be scaled in garment factories to safeguard workers and support industry sustainability.

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have unearthed a “universal thermal performance curve” (UTPC) that seemingly applies to all species and dictates their responses to temperature change. This UTPC essentially “shackles evolution” as no species seem to have broken free from the constraints it imposes on  how temperature affects performance.

All living things are affected by temperature, but the newly discovered UTPC unifies tens of thousands of seemingly different curves that explain how well “species work” at different temperatures. And not only does the UTPC seem to apply to all species, but also to all measures of their performance with regard to temperature variation – whether you are measuring lizards running on a treadmill, sharks swimming in the ocean, or recording cell division rates in bacteria.

Depending on where you live in the United States, the meat you eat each year could be responsible for a level of greenhouse gas emissions that's similar to what's emitted to power your house. That's according to new research from the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Despite evidence grasslands and shrublands can adapt to periods of moderate drought, they can’t withstand prolonged periods of extreme dryness. An international collaboration, including researchers from Murdoch University, has found even native systems capable of acclimatising to moderate drought are no match for more extreme conditions.