BBC footage shows yellow crazy ants using formic acid to overpower red crabs, highlighting an invasive species crisis that has devastated Christmas Island's ecosystem for decades.

Global warming is often predicted to drive universal declines in animal body size, but empirical evidence remains equivocal. This is particularly t...

Lancaster University is launching a new ‘Food for Nature and Society' doctoral training programme to tackle our contemporary food system crises, while also protecting our planet.

When you’re working with a developing scientific writer, you may be doing a lot of different things – but one thing you’re almost certainly doing is reading drafts and making suggestions for improv…

Climate change is driving unprecedented declines in dominant, habitat-forming foundation species across marine and terrestrial ecosystems globally. As climatic novelty becomes the norm, ecosystem rea...

The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.

Group synthesis projects have the potential to develop high impact science and build strong supportive colleague networks—but they demand a set of skills that are rarely taught. In 2026, LTER launches...

Here, the authors use the diurnal upside-down jellyfish and the crepuscular starlet sea anemone as simple nerve net models to examine the potential evolutionary origins of sleep. They describe and define sleep patterns in these species, finding that sleep deprivation increases neuronal DNA damage and that sleep facilitates genome stability.

In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.

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The Gulf of Panama’s (GOP) seasonal upwelling system has consistently delivered cool, nutrient-rich waters via northerly trade winds every January–...

A new study proves for the first time that the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ applies to large animals as well as small ones, offering key lessons for conversation.

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says

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NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, products, and catalogs related to earthquakes and marine, coastal, and estuary science.

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Nature Ecology & Evolution - Even outside urban and agricultural areas, ecosystems are vastly transformed as a result of human activities. Here the authors map patterns in climate change,...

Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s p...

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His job was to make wildlife monitoring at the NPS faster and cheaper—so getting dismissed for “government efficiency” was a bitter irony.

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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