ecosystem

LEH, India—The Indus River system sustains over 200 million people in Asia. But its ecosystem is fragile, and the depletion of the habitat of the Snow trout, a fish native ...

The Australian government will spend $150 million ($US95 million) to accelerate wildlife recovery after the bushfires devastated communities ...

WASHINGTON—The United States is back as the “most competitive economy” in the world, reclaiming the No. 1 spot ...

China's One Belt, One Road investments into the timber industries in both countries—as well as rampant illegal logging—have ...

We all stand to benefit from protecting biodiversity and repairing our waterways.

A new study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to ...

A microscopic marine alga is thriving in the North Atlantic to an extent that defies scientific predictions, suggesting ...

Vitus Bering, the famous explorer, led perhaps the most ambitious scientific expedition ever in the 1730s.

In 2009, Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for economics.

Abrupt climate changes off the coast of Southern California caused small decreases in seawater oxygenation.

The water below the Antarctic ice sheet is as cold and dark as ever, but it turns out ...

When commercial whaling was banned in 1986 it put an end to a harvest that threatened the existence ...

The speed and scale of China's rapid economic growth has led to widespread degradation of its densely inhabited ...

Sharks are in danger in most parts of the world, with a quarter of all sharks and rays ...

Last week I was in Veracruz Mexico for an Animals Committee meeting of the Convention on International Trade ...

Half of the world’s oxygen is provided by phytoplankton, an aquatic organism that functions as a carbon sink ...

How are milkweed, pillows, and monarch butterflies connected?

Until just recently the science world knew little of the giant armadillo, the largest of the armadillo species ...