It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

A biology journal which paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026

Mezi Kočičí skálou a mandloňovým sadem leží 1,5 ha pole – bariéra pro lidi i přírodu. Chceme ho koupit a proměnit v živý krajinný koridor: sad, květnatou louku a bezpečnou pěší trasu, která propojí Pá...

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

This Open Letter highlights plant regeneration as a critical and overlooked dimension of ecosystem resilience under global environmental change. Biodiversity monitoring, conservation and agricultural....

Political scientist Samuel Bagg explains why social identity is at the root of the misinformation crisis -- which calls for something deeper than factchecking.

Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.

A public media organization in a university town just a few hours northwest of Philadelphia is set to be the first in the country to go dark after the Trump administration stripped away federal funding for NPR and PBS. 

Variability in traits within species (intraspecific trait variability; ITV) has attracted increased interest in functional ecology, as it can profoundly influence the detection of functional trait pa....

Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

Despite recent advances in plant trait ecology, we identified a knowledge gap in understanding how plants strategize to cope with severe and recurrent disturbances. Here, we propose a new classificati...

The National Climate Assessments can no longer be found on their government-hosted websites.

<em>People and Nature</em> is an international journal publishing interdisciplinary research with ecological relevance that explores the relationships between humans and nature.

Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.

A nearly 30-year tradition has ended at Canada's largest ski resort.

Trait-based ecology, a prominent research field identifying traits linked to the distribution and interactions of organisms and their impact on ecosystem functioning, has flourished in the last three...

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

The Importance of the Regional Species Pool The regional species pool—the set of species capable of entering a local community—is a foundational concept for understanding ecological processes that o...

“The loss of this science doesn’t just mean fewer data points,” writes Kristina Young. “It means fewer tools to protect water supplies, fewer insights to guide wildfire mitigation and fewer answers wh...