The historic removal of gray wolves from the U.S. West facilitated the rise of mid-ranking predators across the region, wreaking havoc on historical ecosystem dynamics, a new study has found. Yet just ...

Investigating microplastics in agriculture reveals their effects on soil microbes and viruses, crucial for developing strategies for ecosystem restoration.

Governments' attempts to achieve climate goals are falling short, in large part because wealthy economies are continuing to pursue economic growth. As these economies ramp up production and ...

As the study finds, EPA’s reliance on honey bee data from lab studies focused on LD50 does not accurately capture the threats that pesticides pose in the real world to thousands of other bee species ...

Parasites have a bad reputation—so much so that they are used as an insult. But is their reputation deserved? Mike Gardner is a Professor in Biodiversity/Ecology at Flinders University. He says ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental ...

The current ecological crises facing our planet are extensively the result of a human behavioral crisis, according to a 2023 paper appearing in the journal Science Progress. The paper cites economic ...

But after pets take isoxazolines, the active compounds can wind up in the environment when pets poop, pee or shed, putting ...

A frog belonging to an endemic Western Ghats species has been discovered by researchers with a severe limb abnormality, indicating possible environmental stress in the region’s fragile ecosystem. The ...