Ecology

Marine biologist James McClintock brings a love of nature to tales of fishing adventures in remote waters ranging from Antarctica to Louisiana's marshy barrier islands

Cod rebound in warming Canadian waters but continue to decline in U.S.

The island nation is one of the world’s most vulnerable to rising sea levels. But residents may have to leave well before the ocean claims their homes

Whales fertilize ocean surface waters with key nutrients like phosphorus, which move through the food chain, and eventually, onto land. Christopher Intagliata reports

Researchers have found the first direct evidence that coho salmon near U.S. Northwest cities are being killed by chemical runoff from roads and parking lots that reach streams

As the massive cyclone made landfall, destructive winds tore down trees, moved cars and forced thousands of people to flee homes and beachfront resorts

Researchers picked apart satellite imagery from two New England forest ecosystems to get a better handle on exactly what factors influence the timing of the color changes of the autumn leaves

Scientists are concerned about threats to biological diversity

Researchers built a physical model of the tail of the late Jurassic dinosaur Apatosaurus and found that its tail tip could have moved at supersonic speed to produce a whip-crack sound

The Sooner State is part of a trend toward leaving farmland untilled to tackle runoff and climate change, but some remain wary of associated pesticide use

Fish larvae are moving to more habitable waters

The region is warming and drying faster than climate models have predicted