Wildfires profoundly influence the unseen microbial world within our waters, directly impacting water quality and ecosystem health, according to a study presented at ASM Microbe 2025. "Understanding ...

How does an ecosystem distribute its energy across body sizes? A new study suggests the answer depends on where you are—and how much humans have altered the landscape. Analyzing communities of birds ...

Rodenticides, or poisons targeting mice and rats, are harmful to more than just the animals they’re marketed to target. One of the species impacted by these chemicals is the coyote. Love ‘em or hate ...

We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like aeroplanes or human hearts A version of this piece was originally published on Aeon as Why we need to think again about ...

An experiment spanning more than two decades has found that removal of apex predators from an ecosystem can create lasting changes that are not reversed after they return -- at least, not for a very ...

“Climate change and its associated extreme events will put additional stress on the world’s ecosystems, which are already under tremendous pressure. This might cause some ecosystems to collapse ...

In today’s ever-evolving industrial landscape, interconnectedness is taking center stage. With advancements in technologies like IoT, AI and automation, businesses are no longer operating in silos.

Across the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded “regime shifts” ...