An international research team has used earth observation radar data to map oil pipeline networks covering a 9000 km2 region in the Niger Delta and pinpoint where crude oil spills have caused the most ...

The Balanggarra Rangers have fought the cane toad for over a decade and are finally seeing native flora and fauna make a ...

Laguna la Cruz on the Gulf of California coast in Sonora, Mexico, is an important stopover point for many migratory species.

Bastetodon was classified as a species of the extinct group of carnivorous mammals called hyenodonts, which evolved long before modern carnivorous animals.

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, ...

In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

A rare discovery of a nearly complete skull in the Egyptian desert has led scientists to the “dream” revelation of a new ...

Life thrives in the extremes of the Sahara Desert and Alaska as nature and humans adapt to intense heat and freezing cold ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...