Tag: Ecology

“There is no more urgent form of communication than going extinct.”

Trees were previously seen as individual and solitary organisms. But the research of Suzanne Simard shows otherwise.

Fast food is killing the human world. Now it could be killing California gulls’ protected island habitat.

“We no longer understand it here. We don’t trust it.”

Driftwood provides the necessary habitat and shelter that feeds a raft of marine life all the way up the food chain.

To protect them from climate change, concerned citizens are moving clones of California’s ancient sequoias to Oregon in a process known as assisted migration, but should they?

Steven Bedard, a former field biologist, travels around Bangladesh with a team of public health investigators studying Nipah, a bat-borne virus with the potential to become the next pandemic.

While science labors to comprehend the variety and volume of insects on earth, both are declining with disturbing speed, and the ecological consequences are troubling.

Plastic is everywhere: bottles, toys, cars, and, increasingly, in oceans and rivers so clogged with plastic that you can walk on them.

To save threatened shorebirds, one pharmaceutical biologist had to figure out how to save the crabs they depend on.

The Mississippi River’s infrastructure is aging, and no one can agree who should fix it.

Driving through the Amazon Basin on a single road to see whether Brazil can balance economic development with rainforest conservation.

The scientist whose research could help restore stability to Somalia was abducted there in 2008, and hasn’t been heard from since.

A small group of park rangers help protect Congo’s wetlands from poachers and smugglers.

Billy Barr moved into a remote part of the Rocky Mountains in search of solitude over 40 years ago. To avoid boredom, he documented snow levels, animal sightings, and the date flowers first bloomed. “…collectively his work has become some of the most significant indication that climate change is rearranging mountain ecosystems more dramatically and quickly than anyone imagined.”