More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago—including what is ...

Freshwater and coastal waters may cover just a small portion of the planet, but they turn out to be powerful contributors to ...

The public is invited to attend a talk on “Managing Soil as an Ecosystem,” sponsored by by the Texas Master Naturalist, Hill ...

They made the suggestion on Friday when attending the 2025 Hainan Blue Carbon Forum, hosted by the Hainan International Blue ...

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

The first known worldwide marine rabies epidemic has emerged among Cape fur seals ( Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus ), ...

Deserts are not failures, but ancient, diverse ecosystems needing protection and respect from human interventions and policies.

The question of what is a forest has been inextricably linked to the question of who owns and who should govern forests.

Despite widespread human impacts to wildlife diversity worldwide, many fish communities on the seafloor have maintained their uniqueness, reports a new study led by Zoë Kitchel, formerly of Rutgers ...

Known as the Ecosystems Mission Area, the program is part of the U.S. Geological Survey and studies nearly every aspect of the ecology and biology of natural and human-altered landscapes and ...

Research on plastics in aquatic environments is well-established, but little is known about their presence, pathways, and effects in soil ecosystems. The iMulch project aims to address this need as ...