The Department of Ecology at Montana State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scholar as part of NSF-funded research on speciation under alternating cycles of gene flow and isolation (fundi...

It’s sometimes easy to forget quite how much of the living world depends upon insects. That might seem an odd thing for someone who has spent much of his career studying insects and their relations…

Doug Burgum was once seen as a conservationist. Reality shows otherwise.

Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world. That might be the least of the shorebirds’ marvels. Can they survive a changing planet?

Abstract. Humans and carnivores have shared landscapes for millennia, but never before have these interactions been more intense, complex, or consequential

A reorganization of the U.S. Forest Service and threats to federal funding could affect ongoing research in the Pacific Northwest.

Risk of human exposure to Lyme disease and other tick-borne zoonoses is affected by interactions between ticks, pathogens, vertebrate hosts for tic...

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.

The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff. An ‘extraordinary’ fire season is testing those who are left.

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

Humans recreating in wilderness areas face a risk of encountering and being harmed by fearsome large wild carnivores. Yet, the risk is exceedingly low, because, it turns out, these fearsome predators ...

Humans recreating in wilderness areas face a risk of encountering and being harmed by fearsome large wild carnivores. Yet, the risk is exceedingly low, because, it turns out, these fearsome predators ...

Bottom feeding in the Brazilian Pantanal

Part of this issue to me is the financial cost, but the other part is the ineffective and really incompetent management," said Doug Pasternak.

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

July 8, 2026 @ 9:00 am-10:00 am - Are you a new graduate student, undergraduate, investigator, or staff member at an LTER site? After you get settled into your local site, join us to learn about the i...

The Smithsonian Institution is the worlds largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a major bureau of the ...