AMBIO addresses the scientific, social, economic, and cultural factors that influence the condition of the human environment. AMBIO particularly encourages multi- or inter-disciplinary submissions with explicit management or policy recommendations. For more than 40 years AMBIO has brought international perspective to important developments in environmental research, policy and related activities for an international readership of specialists, generalists, students, decision-makers and interested laymen.
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), ratified in 2022 by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, sets out a new global agenda for safeguarding nature.
Ecology
Sep 15, 2025
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In Europe, mountain areas account for about 36% of the total territory and are home to 16% of the population, but they are crucial for the continent as a whole. The availability of basic commodities, like water, depends on ...
Environment
Jun 18, 2025
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Nature is fundamental to human life and well-being: it enables food production, regulates the climate, maintains the water and carbon cycles, and directly contributes to health. More than half of the global economy depends, ...
Environment
May 23, 2025
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Sea level rise will cause large areas of land to be flooded in the coming century. We could use these future sea-landscapes for the production of seagrass grains, argues environmental scientist Marieke van Katwijk in the ...
Ecology
May 15, 2025
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By studying the Damariscotta and Medomak River estuaries, University of Maine researchers have formally documented shifts in shellfish populations, from soft shell clams to oysters. Because Maine's intertidal mudflats, such ...
Ecology
May 13, 2025
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Ice made of frozen slush or snow is much weaker than core ice, and researchers from the Universities of Gothenburg and Uppsala have observed that this type of fragile ice has become more common on Swedish lakes over the past ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2025
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Research by Dr. Meenakshi Shankar Poti (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université libre de Bruxelles) delves into the environmental policies and governance structures in small islands, with further emphasis on the mangrove ...
Ecology
Feb 7, 2025
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The habit of driving influences even environmentally conscious individuals to view carbon taxation more negatively. This is suggested by a new study published in Ambio, the first of its kind to investigate how habitual behaviors ...
Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2025
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Antarctica is approaching a series of cascading tipping points that could reshape ecosystems and intensify global climate disruptions, according to a new study by an international team of scientists, including researchers ...
Environment
Dec 17, 2024
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In urban planning, competing interests—such as creating more space for housing while preserving biodiversity—often have to be reconciled. How this could be better achieved in the future was investigated by an international ...
Environment
Nov 13, 2024
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