Environmental science

Dr Bex J Turner on whether natural depth zonation patterns differed across geographies, and whether and how local human impacts might disrupt these natural zonation patterns.
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Dr Daniela Martínez Medina on how acoustic tools have been increasingly adopted in ecological research, enabling us to expand our capacities in assessing multiple biodiversity facets.
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Dr Emilie Ellis on a study across three cities that found that pollinator species richness declined by up to 43% in more urbanised areas.
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Royal Society journal articles are frequently mentioned in media outlets around the world. Explore environmental science articles that made the news.

• Tick population in Scotland could almost double due to climate change via Independent
• Why invasive spotted lanternflies are thriving in the US via ABC News
• Why non-human culture should change how we see nature via New Scientist
• Welcome to the ‘Homogenocene’: how humans are making the world’s wildlife dangerously samey via The Conversation

A collection of Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society celebrates the scientists who made advancements in climate and sustainability science from the mid-20th century onwards.

The Royal Society has been publishing scientific articles for over 360 years. Browse the Royal Society Journals Archive to discover some of the key moments in scientific history and gain a fascinating insight into the development of science.

Proceedings B is the Royal Society’s flagship biological research journal, accepting original articles and reviews of outstanding scientific importance and broad general interest. The main criteria for acceptance are that a study is novel and has general significance to biologists. Articles published cover the breadth of the biological sciences; many but not all articles have direct relevance to organisms and the environments in which they live. 

Biology Letters is an online Royal Society journal that publishes short, high-quality, peer-reviewed articles, reviews and opinion pieces from across the biological sciences. The scope is vast - publishing high-quality research in any area of the biological sciences. However, we have particular strengths in the biology, evolution and ecology of whole organisms. 

Philosophical Transactions B publishes high quality theme issues on topics of current importance and general interest within the life sciences, guest-edited by leading authorities and comprising new research, reviews and opinions from prominent researchers. Each issue aims to create an original and authoritative synthesis, often bridging traditional disciplines, which showcases current developments and provides a foundation for future research, applications and policy decisions. 

Royal Society Open Science is an open access journal publishing high-quality original research on the basis of objective peer-review. The journal covers the entire range of science and mathematics and allows the Society to publish all the high-quality work it receives without the usual restrictions on scope, length or impact. It welcomes the submission of all high-quality science including articles which may usually be difficult to publish elsewhere, for example, replications or those that include negative findings.