Mar. 26, 2024 While Wyoming is home to some of North America's most abundant populations of pronghorn that have largely been stable in recent years, a new analysis shows that many herds are experiencing ...
Mar. 25, 2024 When officials make tough calls on which areas to prioritize for conservation, biodiversity is often their top consideration. But there are several types of diversity, and not all of them overlap ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Scientists advocate for change to promote standardized practices in the field -- a practice that has been missing from the ...
Mar. 8, 2024 While the majority of the world's reefs are now under threat or even damaged potentially beyond repair, a new study offers some encouraging news: efforts to restore coral reefs not only increase ...
Mar. 6, 2024 The findings suggest that subtropical seagrasses are less resilient to heavy grazing from marine herbivores, in part because they receive less sunlight relative to their tropical counterparts. As ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Researchers have developed an innovative methodology for measuring the electrical conductivity of microbial communities. This methodology holds promise for the development of batteries and ...
Feb. 29, 2024 An ecological imbalance in a lake can usually be attributed to increased nutrient inputs. The result: increased phytoplankton growth, oxygen deficiency, toxic cyanobacterial blooms and fish kills. ...
Feb. 28, 2024 A new study highlights a crucial biosphere feedback mechanism and its effects on releasing soil carbon into the ...
Feb. 28, 2024 Scientists uncover the intricate dance between drought, wildfires and invasive species in Southern California's coastal sage scrub ...
Feb. 28, 2024 Bugs including hoverflies, lacewings and ladybirds play an important role in keeping Britain's apples healthy, a new study has ...
Feb. 27, 2024 Fish species respond to temperature increases by going after more readily available prey. Models suggest this behavior could lead to more ...
Feb. 22, 2024 The side effects of large-scale forestation initiatives could reduce the CO2 removal benefits by up to a third, a pioneering study has ...
Feb. 22, 2024 If storms become stronger in the future due to climate change, more nitrogen may be released from the bottom of coastal ...
Feb. 21, 2024 Every day, new areas of rainforests are converted into plantations, drastically changing tropical biodiversity and the way the ecosystem functions. Yet, the current understanding of the consequences ...
Feb. 20, 2024 Findings more than a decade in the making reveal a rich diversity of beneficial fungi living in boreal forest trees, with implications for the health of ...
Feb. 20, 2024 A thousand kilometers south of Tokyo, far into the largest ocean on Earth, lies a chain of small, volcanic islands -- the Ogasawara Islands. Nature has been able to develop on its own terms here, far ...
Feb. 20, 2024 New study advocates the use of more than one million declassified images for ecology and conservation. The images can offer better insights into the historical changes of ecosystems, species ...
Feb. 20, 2024 A team of scientists on location with a film crew in the remote Amazon has uncovered a previously undocumented species of giant ...
Feb. 18, 2024 Instead of carrying the babies until they hatched, as in most species of sea spiders, one parent (likely the father) spent two days attaching the eggs to the rocky bottom where they developed for ...
Feb. 16, 2024 Researchers propose a framework for integrating online digital data into biodiversity ...