Ecology Section News Today

Newly-discovered Shell documents dating back decades could help strengthen lawsuits aiming to hold the oil major to account for climate damages, climate attorneys say.

Project Noah is a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

May 24, 2021 On April 26, the researcher of the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, and president of the Senda Darwin Foundation, Juan Armesto, was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the United States Academy of Sciences. In this announcement, 120 new members were appointed, among which, 59 correspond to women, and 30 to international members. With this designation, the ecologist becomes the ninth Chilean to belong to the NAS, a list that also includes two more researchers from the IEB: Mary Kal...

by Qianna Xu, ESA Asian Ecology Section Student Liaison, and Lin Jiang, ESA Asian Ecology Section Chair The past year has been a very difficult time for many people, with the surging pandemic, ongoing racial injustice against the black community, escalating economic despair and inequality. Meanwhile, bubbling beneath the surface, hatred directed towards people of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans was brewing. Anti-Asian hate crimes have spiked 149 percent since the pandemic began, according ...