Dwayne Estes pulls over to the side of a rural road in Franklin County, Tennessee, about 20 miles from the Alabama border. 

Plants are susceptible to stress, and with the global impact of climate change and humanity’s growing demand for food, it’s crucial to understand what causes plant stress and stress tolerance.

New strategies for river management are needed to maintain water supplies and avoid big crashes in populations of aquatic life, researchers argue in a perspective piece published today in Nature.

Getting an excellent rabbiteye blueberry harvest requires helpful pollinators—particularly native southeastern blueberry bees—although growers can bring in managed honey bees to do the job, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.

Finding a shady refuge to cool off on a hot day could be more than a lifesaver in a warming world.

A whitetip reef shark glides towards me warily, not quite sure what to make of this guest breathing bubbles in its territory. 

A new analysis published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment shows that the world’s protected areas (PAs) are experiencing major shortfalls in staffing and resources and are therefore failing on a massive scale to safeguard wildlife.

Salmon species, known for undertaking arduous upstream migrations, appear to owe a good deal of their athletic ability to the presence of a single enzyme.

An international study has revealed new evidence to help understand the consequences of habitat loss on natural communities.

A group of Memorial students have created a comprehensive biodiversity report of wildlife in Newfoundland and Labrador.