The health of our planet’s soil is a foundational unit for the success of farmers and our resulting food supply. Plants grown in microbe-rich soil are more disease resistant and prosperous. Biome ...

Climate change, land use and other human-driven factors could pit savannas and forests against each other by altering the elements found by researchers to stabilize the two. Without this harmony, the ...

 Peter Etnoyer is a deep sea coral habitat specialist with NOAA’s National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) in Charleston, SC. He returns to Deep Sea News to deliver this important report on ...

We were in a van, on a birding tour with about a dozen Minnesotans, some of us less confident in our driver than others. We were on a zigzag gravel road, climbing up a mountain toward Chiricahua Peak.

A study conducted by scientists from Swansea University in the UK, working with international collaborators, has explored the gut microbiomes of rodent species living in both urban and rainforest ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Zero-deforestation commitments (ZDCs) made by the palm oil industry and adopted by producers of other crops as well focus on preserving rainforests ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. This three-part Mongabay mini-series examines grassroots forest restoration projects carried out within isolated island ecosystems — whether those ...

New research has identified areas of the Earth that are high priorities for conservation in the face of climate change. Europe is particularly vulnerable, as it has the lowest fraction of its land ...

Having the honor of serving as director of the Nevada Department of Wildlife for 10 years, and having worked with a wide range of excellent wildlife and range ecologists across the West on issues ...