Holiday lights brighten the dark winter nights and lift spirits, but they can also disrupt our smallest neighbours— nocturnal animals and insects— who share these spaces.

A groundbreaking international study shows how chemical fingerprints left by “underappreciated” aquatic organisms could help scientists monitor global environmental change.

King salmon have sustained people in Alaska for at least 12,000 years, but over the past three decades their populations have begun to dwindle.

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.