The amount of dissolved oxygen in a river is a matter of life or death for the plants and animals living within it, but this oxygen concentration varies drastically from one river to another, depending on their unique temperature, light and flow.

A public health officials across the nation.

Natural disasters can devastate a region, abruptly killing the species that form an ecosystem’s structure.

For tiny salamanders squirming skin-to-soil, big-picture weather patterns may seem as far away as outer space. But for decades, scientists have mostly relied on free-air temperature data at large spatial scales to predict future salamander distributions under climate change.

The breathtaking colors of reef-building corals come from photosynthetic algae that live inside the corals.

Cape Cod’s salt marshes are as iconic as they are important.

Opportunistic sampling shows geographic scope of distribution, offer some of the first sampling opportunities.

Coastal ecosystems are a natural storehouse for carbon, with policymakers looking to bays, marshes, and seaside forests as nature-based solutions to help combat climate change.

Plans to reintroduce the lynx in Scotland provoke a complex range of opinions, new research shows.

As a key food supply declines, the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales, known to frequent the Salish Sea off the coasts of Washington and British Columbia, is spending far less time in that region, a new study shows.