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

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

Antibiotics that escape into the environment are widely recognized as a growing threat to ecosystems, wastewater treatment ...

With feral horses gone, fragile alpine areas are no longer being trampled by hard hooves. But Kosciuszko’s landscapes will ...

What powers life? In most ecosystems, sunlight is absorbed and converted into usable forms of energy via photosynthesis. These usable forms of energy are carbon-based. A primary example of this ...

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