Tag: ecology

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Parasitic, elusive, and emitting an overwhelming ...

In 2019 and 2020, a megafire scorched eastern Australia, destroying some 24 million hectares of land, and adding to the ...

We created cattle by manipulating their wild cousins, aurochs, in Europe, Asia, and the Sahara beginning over 10,000 years ago. ...

That has created a problem. Around 2010, soon after meeting this big, new predator that could outcompete and eat them, ...

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.At the third meeting of the ...

Secondly, the warmer water gets, the less dense it becomes. At the surface, you end up with a band of ...

As the West continues to dry up, water managers are increasingly pressed to accurately predict how much of the treasured ...

Steps away from the public restrooms in Yosemite Village, a buzzy stop in Yosemite National Park’s iconic valley, sits a ...

Back to the study. The Connecticut group chose a site where they could monitor a small, contained deer herd: a ...

Not even the Arctic Ocean is immune to the incessant growth of microplastic pollution. In a new study that analyzed ...