Environmental science

Meet us at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution in Sherbrooke, Canada, 6-9 July 2025.

Are you a researcher based in London? Find us at the London Centre for Ecology and Evolution’s annual events and look out for our annual workshop.

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Dr. Camilla Soravia on the effect of high temperatures on the cognitive abilities of the Southern pied babbler.
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Dr Colleen Miller on how light pollution can impact complex communities across the globe.
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Dr Anne Pisor on  the solutions people use to deal with climate change, and how understanding these solutions enables better support to be provided to communities as they respond.
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Royal Society journal articles are frequently mentioned in media outlets around the world. Explore environmental science articles that made the news.

• Tick population in Scotland could almost double due to climate change via Independent
• Did a marine heatwave cause 7,000 humpback whales to starve to death? via Guardian
• Alpine ibex are becoming more nocturnal as the climate gets hotter via New Scientist
• A tough neighbourhood’: how Gulf scientists are reaching across political divides to help coral reefs via Guardian

The Royal Society has been publishing scientific articles for over 350 years. A collection of Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society celebrates the scientists who made advancements in climate and sustainability science from the mid-20th century onwards.

Browse the Royal Society Journals Archive to discover some of the key moments in scientific history and gain a fascinating insight into the development of science.

Proceedings B is the Royal Society’s flagship biological research journal, accepting original articles and reviews of outstanding scientific importance and broad general interest. The main criteria for acceptance are that a study is novel and has general significance to biologists. Articles published cover the breadth of the biological sciences; many but not all articles have direct relevance to organisms and the environments in which they live. 

Biology Letters is an online Royal Society journal that publishes short, high-quality, peer-reviewed articles, reviews and opinion pieces from across the biological sciences. The scope is vast - publishing high-quality research in any area of the biological sciences. However, we have particular strengths in the biology, evolution and ecology of whole organisms. 

Philosophical Transactions B publishes high quality theme issues on topics of current importance and general interest within the life sciences, guest-edited by leading authorities and comprising new research, reviews and opinions from prominent researchers. Each issue aims to create an original and authoritative synthesis, often bridging traditional disciplines, which showcases current developments and provides a foundation for future research, applications and policy decisions. 

Royal Society Open Science is an open access journal publishing high-quality original research on the basis of objective peer-review. The journal covers the entire range of science and mathematics and allows the Society to publish all the high-quality work it receives without the usual restrictions on scope, length or impact. It welcomes the submission of all high-quality science including articles which may usually be difficult to publish elsewhere, for example, replications or those that include negative findings.