Drugs like cocaine and a common metabolite of it, benzoylecgonine, show up in bodies of water near urban areas. People ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

Altering streamflow can endanger the ecosystems that rely on it, but researchers have lacked data on how human infrastructure has impacted streamflow in the U.S. Now, a study has mapped streamflow ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The combined effects of humanity’s actions are making ecosystems less resistant to change, and threatening the vital ecosystem services humanity ...

Human activity may be setting the stage for the largest extinction event since the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...

William Andrew Thompson is currently a MITACS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biology at McMaster University. He was awarded the Eyes High doctoral scholarship at the University of Calgary, ...

“There are many more ways in which these changes can affect wildlife than we could even imagine at this point. Wildlife has co-evolved with certain weather patterns, and we’re changing the rules of ...

BURLINGAME — Without dung beetles, rancher Jamin Horton would be up, um, an unpleasant creek. These efficient manure wranglers break down the huge patties produced by the hulking livestock that wander ...

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island’s fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season’s planned ...