Twenty-five years into a 100-year federal strategy to protect older forests in the Pacific Northwest, forest losses to wildfire are up and declines in bird populations have not been reversed, new research shows.

New research estimates species’ niche by treating above, below taxonomic levels.

Strategies for growing biomass for fuel can have ecological and environmental benefits.

Efforts to preserve natural ecosystems may lead to more greenhouse gas emissions.

Although it has been ranked as the cutest creature in US National Parks, the American pika is tough, at home in loose alpine rocks in windswept mountain regions. 

A field trip to Namibia to study volcanic rocks led to an unexpected discovery by West Virginia University geologists Graham Andrews and Sarah Brown.

Researchers have pioneered a new method which allows them to rapidly recruit disease resistance genes from wild plants and transfer them into domestic crops.

The observed population crash in a colony of sooty terns, tropical seabirds in one of the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs), is partly due to poor diet, research led by the University of Birmingham has found.

Thousands of people cross the border between Oregon and Idaho every day without anyone batting an eye.

Researchers from the University of Toronto will develop three microsatellites to help support next-generation situational awareness in Canada’s North.