Tiny foxes — each no bigger than a five-pound housecat — inhabiting the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California were saved from extinction in 2016. 

It’s well known that producing foods such as beef can have an outsized footprint when it comes to carbon emissions.

Scientists have been worried about the potential harms of microplastics for years.

Scientists at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) are embarking on two new research projects that will transform our understanding of impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises.

Dr Cicely Marshall, a researcher at King’s College and the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences, led a study to monitor the effects.

Glaciers have been melting and shrinking at an alarming rate, raising the sea-level and causing outburst floods.

A new article published in the Journal of Animal Ecology suggests that current measures to protect grasslands in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau are damaging the ecosystem and should be stopped.

Searches for sustainable bioenergy and climate change solutions may be one in the same, according to a West Virginia University researcher.

In a study tracking climate-induced changes in the distribution of animals and their effects on ecosystem functions, North Carolina State University researchers show that resident species can continue managing some important ecological processes despite the arrival of newcomers that are similar to them, but resident species’ role in ecosystem functioning changes when the newcomers are more different.

In a bid to control the Canada goose population in the city, the Vancouver Park Board has approved a plan for “lethal removal.”