Anderson said increased fuel loads in the forest are a result of fire suppression, a practice that, when combined with a projection of increasingly drier…
New Study uses innovative method for establishing range of conservation options along the coast of Madagascar Madagascar now has a roadmap for proposed one…
Humans are frequently blamed for deforestation and the destruction of environments, yet there are also examples of peoples and cultures around the world that…
A study of the tropical coral reef system along the coastline of Kenya has found dramatic effects of overfishing that could threaten the long-term health of…
Josep Marmi, Angel Lujan, Angel Galobart from ICP, Rodrigo Gaete from MDC, and Violeta and Oms Oriol Riera from UAB have named this new species as Polysternon…
The seven-month prison sentence is only the third for Indonesia, despite orangutans being strictly protected under Indonesian law since 1924.Although there…
The reason, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers, is rising temperatures due to climate change.Using migration information…
Though the precise causes of red tides remain a mystery, a team of researchers in the United States and Spain has solved one of the main riddles about these…
New research published online today in The Royal Society’s journal Biology Letters shows that “clustered habitat networks” are needed to maintain the genetic…
As scientists warn that the Earth is on the brink of a period of mass extinctions, they are struggling to identify ecosystem responses to environmental change….
Outbreaks can consume live corals over large areas, a change that can promote algal growth, alter reef fish populations, and reduce the aesthetic value of…
The eastern massasauga rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus), a candidate for protection under the federal Endangered Species Act, suffers from habitat…
“Environmental change is altering the composition and function of ecological communities,” says the Bryson Professor of Climate, People, and the Environment in…
Combining economic outlook and fisheries population growth rates for all countries currently reported to fish in the ocean, UBC fisheries researchers William…
Current climate models do not adequately reflect feedbacks from the relationship between the atmosphere and soil, which causes them to underestimate the…
In a delicate operation at sea, healthy staghorn coral were transplanted Friday to a threatened reef off the Broward County coast by researchers at Nova…