Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Mental models are ways of thinking about or explaining how something works. When you shift a ...

A special issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment lays the foundation for pursuing structural diversity as a new research direction in ecology. The issue, funded by the National ...

The low-latitude highlands region of southwestern China experienced two major climate events in recent years: a severe ...

Diverse pain points (both small and large) remain within the ever-changing blockchain space while new ones appear every day. Generally, these pain points happen when different systems on different ...

From the driest deserts to the lushest forests, ecosystems are networks of life where organisms and the environment interact. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how plants function ...

Climate change is a complicated phenomenon with a variety of both abrupt and gradual effects that scientists are working hard to uncover. Emerging findings on how various ecosystems are responding to ...

Sea urchins climb onto kelp when their densities are so high they remove all drift kelp and then actively forage on attached, living kelp. (Credit: Steve Lonhart / NOAA MBNMS) Tipping points are the ...