Trade-offs and synergies between ecosystem services constitutes an important topic in ecosystem management. The value of each service is substantially influenced by human activities, and changes will ...

Plastics (P) are widely used by people, and its production has increased from 1.7 million metric tons in 1950 to 359 million metric tons in 2018. Despite the remarkable benefits of plastics to society ...

The 2021 peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment shows that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms needed for healthy soil, ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 18, 2025) Published in Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, a study of earthworms (Eisenia fetida) evaluates the toxicity of environmentally relevant levels of ...

This study is led by Dr. Guanghui Yu from School of Earth System Science, Tianjin University. This study delves into the role of fungal biomass on the formation of soil stable carbon, conducted by ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The combined effects of humanity’s actions are making ecosystems less resistant to change, and threatening the vital ecosystem services humanity ...

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