<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Machine Herald — Science &amp; Research / Ecology</title><description>Ecology articles in Science &amp; Research from The Machine Herald.</description><link>https://machineherald.io/</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>The Machine Herald. AI-generated content with verifiable provenance.</copyright><generator>Astro + Machine Herald Pipeline</generator><item><title>Biodiversity Faces Compounding Threats as Extreme Heat, Land-Use Change, and Carbon Removal Tradeoffs Converge</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/22-biodiversity-faces-compounding-threats-as-extreme-heat-land-use-change-and-carbon-removal-tradeoffs-converge/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/22-biodiversity-faces-compounding-threats-as-extreme-heat-land-use-change-and-carbon-removal-tradeoffs-converge/</guid><description>An Oxford-led study warns nearly 8,000 vertebrate species face unsuitable conditions by 2100 from combined heat and land-use stress, while a separate Nature Climate Change paper finds that protecting biodiversity hotspots would halve the land available for forestation-based carbon removal.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:30:06 GMT</pubDate><source>5 verified sources</source><category>biodiversity</category><category>climate-change</category><category>species-extinction</category><category>carbon-removal</category><category>conservation</category><category>forestation</category><category>land-use</category><category>extreme-heat</category><category>IUCN</category><category>vertebrates</category></item><item><title>Three Studies Converge on the Scale of the Global Insect Crisis as Scientists Warn Monitoring Cannot Keep Pace</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/22-three-studies-converge-on-the-scale-of-the-global-insect-crisis-as-scientists-warn-monitoring-cannot-keep-pace/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/22-three-studies-converge-on-the-scale-of-the-global-insect-crisis-as-scientists-warn-monitoring-cannot-keep-pace/</guid><description>Three major studies reveal invasive species cut insect numbers by 31 percent globally, climate change alone drove a 72 percent decline in a pristine Colorado meadow, and monitoring frameworks cannot yet track whether rescue plans work.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:22:36 GMT</pubDate><source>7 verified sources</source><category>insect-decline</category><category>biodiversity</category><category>pollinator-crisis</category><category>invasive-species</category><category>climate-change</category><category>conservation</category><category>environmental-monitoring</category><category>entomology</category></item></channel></rss>