by ACC Admin | Aug 17, 2022 | 2022, Blog Article / Thought Piece, Educational Resource, Introductory, Resources
Tiger Shark, Bahamas, Gerald Schömbs There is growing evidence from a wide range of ecosystems that predators, via trophic cascades, play an important and potentially irreplaceable role in the carbon cycle. Studies have shown that changes to predator populations can...
by ACC Admin | Aug 16, 2022 | 2022, Blog Article / Thought Piece, Educational Resource, Introductory, Resources
Great wildebeest migration crossing Mara river at Serengeti National Park – Tanzania, Jorge Tung, Unsplash Involving the movement of over one million animals, the annual wildebeest migration across East Africa’s vast Serengeti grassland is one of the world’s...
by ACC Admin | Aug 30, 2022 | 2022, Blog Article / Thought Piece, Educational Resource, Introductory, Resources
School of duskyshoulder trevallies, Amed Beach, Indonesia. Photo by Milos Prelevic The oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface and play a critical role in absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. Estimates suggest that around a quarter of all anthropogenic CO2...
by ACC Admin | Aug 15, 2022 | 2022, Blog Article / Thought Piece, Educational Resource, Introductory, Resources
Image by Frida Lannerstrom, Unsplash Research has shown that grazing by musk oxen and other large herbivores could have a significant impact on Arctic greenhouse gas exchange Arctic ecosystems, which contain huge amounts of carbon in their soils, are of great...
by ACC Admin | Aug 15, 2022 | 2022, Blog Article / Thought Piece, Educational Resource, Introductory, Resources
Young sea otter being cleaned by its mother, Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada – Kieran Wood, Unsplash The charismatic sea otter is found along the coasts of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia. An aquatic member of the weasel family, it spends most of...
