Matthew Ponsford

3 weeks ago | technologyreview.es | Matthew Ponsford

En las imágenes satelitales, los más de 20 atolones de coral que forman las Maldivas se asemejan a restos óseos o a marcas de tiza en una escena del crimen. Sin embargo, estas formaciones, que rodean los picos de una antigua cadena montañosa sumergida bajo el océano Índico, están lejos de ser estáticas. Son fruto de procesos biológicos: lugares donde el coral ha ido creciendo hacia la superficie durante cientos de miles de años.

3 weeks ago | technologyreview.es | Matthew Ponsford

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Matthew Ponsford

How alligators are breathing life into Florida's EvergladesAlamyThe Everglades' eclectic alligators are surprisingly diverse builders, bodyguards, commuters, and health-bringing engineers. From the edge of the Miccosukee Indian Reservation, in the north of the Florida Everglades, it is a short fan-boat ride through grassy swamp to get to an island that 18-year-old Hector Tigertail's family visit each year.

4 weeks ago | bbc.com | Zaria Gorvett |Sophie Hardach |Katherine Latham |Matthew Ponsford |Jocelyn Timperley

Zaria Gorvett, Sophie Hardach, Katherine Latham, Matthew Ponsford and Jocelyn TimperleyThink pollination, and you will likely picture a butterfly or bee flitting between flowers. But while these are indeed important pollinators, both the natural world and our food supplies rely on a host of other creatures, some of them decidedly less appealing. Most of the world's 350,000 species of flowering plants rely on animal pollinators for reproduction.

1 month ago | bbc.co.uk | Matthew Ponsford

Ecosystems which have never been seen before are being accidentally created by humans. They offer a stark look into the nature of tomorrow. Venture deep into the forests on O'ahu, Hawaii's third largest island, and you'll find yourself threading through a dense understory of richly scented pepper, cinnamon and guava trees. "It's beautiful," says Corey Tarwater, an ecologist at the University of Wyoming in the US who began researching O'ahu's ecosystems in 2014.