Ongoing concerns about the impact of climate change on Australia’s oceans has driven a request from fisheries managers for improved science communication to the seafood sector. Despite these concerns, translating climate science into management and industry action at regional and sectoral scales remains a challenge. We developed a reporting structure for communicating climate and ecosystem status to fisheries management, indus...

Predator-prey relationships on islands are often profoundly altered by invasive species. Brown skuas Catharacta antarctica are predator-scavengers at sub-Antarctic islands, where their population dynamics are linked to food availability. On Marion Island, skua population size and breeding distribution appear to have shifted in response to changes in burrowing petrel populations, which were severely impacted by feral cat Felis...

In the United States, colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality rates are higher in African Americans compared to non-Hispanic whites, partly due to advanced stage cancer diagnosis. Timely CRC screening helps to increase CRC early detection and survival in this population. The objective of this monitoring study was to survey African American patients of Community Health Centers (CHC) in north Florida and to monitor CRC screening adher...

Local drug delivery systems (LDDS) are a promising method to overcome challenges associated with chemotherapeutic treatment of brain tumours, namely poor blood-brain barrier penetration. Here we report a poly(ethyleneglycol)-poly(lactide)-poly(caprolactone)-poly(lactide)-poly(ethyleneglycol) based injectable hydrogel, PELCLE, loaded with Doxorubicin (Dox) and Olaparib (Ola) as an LDDS against glioblastoma (GBM), a primary mali...

Eighteen years of visual survey and strandings data were used to describe baleen whale occurrence along the continental shelf of Virginia and North Carolina, U.S.A. This region experiences heavy anthropogenic use, which poses risks for mortality and injury to baleen whales. Between 2001 and 2019, six species of baleen whales were recorded, and whales occurred year‐round. The total number of (on‐ and off‐effort) sightings and s...

Dryland ecosystems cover 41% of Earth's land surfaces, account for 44% of cultivated lands and 60% of food sources, and make large contributions to the global water and carbon cycles. However, these ecosystems are experiencing unprecedented extremes including heatwaves, floods, and droughts as well as hotter temperatures and often declining water resource availability. These ecosystems are some of the most challenging to monit...

Kelp forests are among the most extensive and productive coastal ecosystems, yet they remain underrepresented in global conservation policy despite widespread declines driven by interacting global- (i.e., ocean warming, marine heatwaves) to local-scale stressors. At the same time, kelp conservation and restoration efforts are expanding rapidly across regions, but measures of success and syntheses tend to primarily focus on eco...

Despite notable differences in cancer incidence and outcomes, fewer American Indians have participated in cancer research and genomic testing relative to their population size. Contributing factors include historical scientific mistrust, lack of culturally appropriate research methodologies, and limited access. With the launch of a cancer genomic sequencing trial in American Indians from the Southwestern United States (US), cl...

Fonio ( Digitaria exilis (Kippist) Stapf) is an underutilized cereal whose genetic diversity is largely conserved through traditional seed systems managed by smallholder farmers in West Africa. Preserving this diversity is critical for climate adaptation, food security, and future crop improvement, yet empirical evidence on farmer-managed fonio landraces remains limited. This study characterizes farmer-saved fonio landraces an...

Healthy coral reefs hold significant value to society, not just from industries such as tourism or fishing, but by their very existence. These so-called ‘non-use benefits’ are increasingly endangered as the health of coral reefs faces escalating threats from climate change. Yet, current observation and modelling tools that help guide reef intervention efforts typically do not provide guidance on how the impact of management ac...

Mesophotic mushroom coral (Fungiidae) beds form distinctive off-reef habitats in Indo-Pacific coral reef ecosystems. We mapped a large mushroom coral bed at Ningaloo Reef off north-western Australia. The 82-hectare (2700 m by 680 m) bed was comprised of Cycloseris distorta and C. fragilis , with densities at some sites more than 1100 m −2 (mean 774 m −2 ) and an estimated population of 653 million individuals making it the lar...

The Asia region harbors exceptional chondrichthyan (shark, ray, and chimaera) diversity but faces intense fishing pressure. The Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRA) process provides a collaborative, evidence-based framework to identify critical habitats and inform spatial management. We assessed ISRAs across the Bay of Bengal, Southeast Asia, and the Northwest Pacific to characterize their extent, ecological significance, and...

Motivation United States federal biomonitoring programs assess the status of freshwater ecosystems using standardised sampling protocols. While most data from these efforts are publicly available, new users face barriers in applying these data appropriately. Here, we introduce unified assemblage databases for fish and macroinvertebrates in rivers and streams from US federal biomonitoring. These are one of the largest single‐so...