The Lord Howe Island stick insect vanished from its home, but an effort at zoos in San Diego and Melbourne highlights the possibilities and challenges of conserving invertebrate animals. Lord Howe ...
The world’s trees are in critical danger, with a staggering number of tree species teetering on the brink of extinction, according to a new global analysis released Monday. The decade-long project ...
Scientists knew almost nothing about how ebony trees, used for guitars and piano keys, grow. A new study reveals the secret ...
CLIMATEWIRE | More than a third of the world’s tree species are at risk of extinction, according to findings by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The group said that its first global ...
More than a third of all tree species worldwide face extinction, threatening ecosystems, plants, animals and economies around the world, experts warned Monday. In all, 38% of trees are at risk, ...
They play an essential role in supporting life on Earth, but many species are in decline, researchers found. By Catrin Einhorn Reporting from the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Cali, ...
According to the Guardian, ecologist Daniel Janzen stated that nature reserves are now being depleted of insects, even in areas that aren't sprayed with pesticides. Nearly 50 years ago, in the Costa ...
In 2006, Kathleen Knight was walking through a forest in northwest Ohio. She's a researched ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service. All around her were big, beautiful ash trees, tall trunks with lush ...
Dr. William “Bill” Powell, 67, died Sunday, Nov. 12, at his home with his family by his side. Powell was a biology professor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and ...
Humans have caused so many changes to our planet that some experts say we're on par with mass extinctions of eons past. We are equivalent to the asteroid that crushed most of the dinosaurs or the ...
Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...