You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...

Hundreds of non-native animal & plant species live in Florida. They prey on native critters & damage native ecosystems.

Leather has been a staple of human fashion for millennia, but the fashion industry is increasingly embracing more sustainable alternatives. Traditional leather comes mainly from cows, and ...

As a result, a large number of people across Madagascar are highly dependent on the island’s ecosystems for their livelihoods ...

Wondrous kelp beds harbor a complex ecosystem that’s teeming with life, cleaning the water and the atmosphere, and bringing ...

A robotic assistant called the Deployment Guidance System (DGS) scans the seafloor and determines the best place for a coral ...

Floridians are not used to hearing the word "extinct" applied to species that play significant roles in the state's ...

Rising ocean acidity weakens corals, boosts algae and makes reefs flatter. Even small chemical changes reshape reef life.

A global analysis of coral bleaching across 81 countries reveals that reefs in the equatorial Coral Triangle region were ...

By the year 2100, rising carbon dioxide levels are expected to alter ocean chemistry so severely that coral reef communities in Australia and worldwide will recover more slowly, lose ecological ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Eating a plant-based diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes can help prevent and reverse heart disease in rats that have high blood pressure, according to a study published by ...