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Climate change-linked extreme weather events have become more common as well as more severe. A study sheds light on their profound impact on ecosystems, especially on native species.
An analysis by researchers in China found that weather disasters might be helping nonnative animals replace native species in the wild.
While the damage done by some invasives was clear, the notion that they were always an inherent threat to native ecosystems troubled some researchers.
When some researchers have suggested that certain alien species may help ecosystems, they’ve been met with fierce debate from invasion scientists.
Le notti bianche (1957) We began this short week with a look at the enthusiastic response to Mark Harris’s Mike Nichols: A Life, and opening this month’s round on new and noteworthy books, we turn to a few more biographies. For a New York Times profile of literary biographer Hermione Lee, widely admired for her books on Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald, Charles McGrath spoke recently with novelist Julian Barnes who recalled the day that playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard approached Lee and asked her if she might consider making him her next subject. When she ...