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Born out of the university’s Center for Children’s Environmental Health, the new center is more than just a re-branding, its ...
Seasonality shapes much of life on Earth. Most species, including humans, have synchronized their own rhythms with those of ...
Douglas McIntyre and David Callaway, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, discuss the alarming prediction that human ...
In a new study published in the journal Ecosystem Services, researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell ...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, One Health approaches1 have revived attention to the interdependence of human, animal, and ...
From bee science to understanding the impact of a warming world on plant life, here’s what the Ecosystems Mission Area does.
If Yellowstone is dangerous now, it’s a cakewalk compared to the Pleistocene age where humans had to contend with mammoths, ...
A new paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution from scientists at the University of Texas in Austin discusses the discovery of mammoth bones in New Mexico’s Rio Puerco Canyon, presenting what ...
Since 2000, the United Nations (UN) recognizes May 22 as the International Day for Biological Diversity, in hopes of promoting international cooperation and conversation surrounding biodiversity ...
Forests support both birds and ecosystem services like clean water and carbon storage, but wetlands and aridland birds remain ...
An analysis of 900 species over a 20-year period showed that biodiversity enhances ecosystem stability and helps safeguard natural communities in a changing environment.
Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...