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The effects of management and conservation of populations, species and habitat depend on local environmental context. Species conservation will benefit from examining local factors to help identify h...

Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges

Mammals play important roles in redistributing elements across ecosystems, concentrating biogeochemical inputs across both space and time. However, research on zoogeochemical inputs is often constrai...

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Chinook in the Yukon River appear to be particularly vulnerable to a common parasite—and warming waters may be abetting the infection

Outdated reproductive norms, the naturalistic fallacy, and misunderstandings of welfare in recent call for zoo breed-and-feed programs

Moonlit seaweeds. Dreamy underwater forests. Mounds of beach debris. Not plants. Let’s talk about where seaweed grows and whether or not it will save us all. Macrophycology means “big-ass algae” so le...

Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy.

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Aboveground ecosystem structure moderates and even confers essential ecosystem functions. This includes an ecosystem’s carbon dynamics, which are strongly influenced by its structure: for example, tro...

A federal appeals court is reinstating rules designed to protect a vanishing whale species from entanglement in fishing gear.