Because of warmer winters, Florida scrub-jays are now nesting one week earlier than they did in 1981. 

With a county named after them, license plates with their depictions and parks promoted as the best places to view the gentle herbivores, known as sea cows, manatees are undoubtedly a part of Florida culture.

Reforms needed to ensure the protection of all pollinator species, our food systems and biodiversity as a whole.

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the world’s largest animal, the Antarctic blue whale, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300.

Today’s ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world’s biodiversity. 

A new study highlights how some marine life could face extinction over the next century, if human-induced global warming worsens.

The story of Arctic greening has overlooked some main characters. At center stage are climate change and warming temperatures.

Light from cars, homes, and street lamps may be keeping bees up at night, according to a new study.

The sounds of barking elephant seals are again in the air along the breeding grounds of Península Valdés, Argentina—but it’s quieter. Roughly a year after a massive outbreak of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza killed more than 17,000 elephant seals, including about 97% of their pups, scientists estimate that only about a third of the elephant seals normally expected here returned.

Killer whales off Canada’s Atlantic coast continue to be contaminated with dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals that put them at elevated risk of severe immune-system and reproductive problems, a recent McGill-led study has found.