Water levels, plant life, and wildlife behavior shift constantly. What looks quiet on the surface often reflects ...

Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...

Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act under the Trump administration could significantly alter how wildlife and habitat are protected in Oklahoma, prom ...

In Yellowstone National Park — where gray wolves were reintroduced starting in 1995 — researchers have gone back and forth on whether the restoration of wolves has impacted the ecosystem. The idea is ...

Global climate change is reshaping the presence, occurrence, fate, and transport of pollutants, amplifying and altering their ...

Ecosystem responses to global change are often nonlinear. Ecological thresholds are tipping points beyond which small changes in environmental conditions can have disproportionate effects on ...

Humans have been modifying natural environments for millennia, leading to a deep co-evolution between social and natural systems. As a result, areas ...

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 ...

Reduced snow cover and shifting vegetation patterns in the Alps, both driven by climate change, are having major combined impacts on biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems in the high mountains, ...

Rapid changes in climate in the polar regions are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees of severity at all ecosystem levels. Even larger changes and more significant ...