Ecology

The deadly chytrid fungus is blamed for most of the 200 recent amphibian disappearances, with more to come

People may find it hard to adapt to an ecology of predation and fear

Human tourism—no matter how well-intentioned—might desensitize wild animals to poachers and predators, affecting their odds of survival. Christopher Intagliata reports

More rain has hit the pumpkin harvest in the U.S.

Corals reefs are suffering a severe underwater heat wave this year for the third time on record, including a mysterious warm patch in the Pacific known as "The Blob", scientists said on Thursday.

The Belarus region devastated by the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident is now teeming with elk, wild boar, deer and wolves

The type of oil sands that helped fuel the Keystone XL controversy have come to the U.S.

Large trees like sequoias and redwoods suffer most when its dry

At a brand-new facility, biologists manually breed supercorals capable of living in increasingly inhospitable waters

The Guadalcanal moustached kingfisher has not been seen since 1953

From the White House to your house, federal agencies support citizen science

Environmental engineer Kartik Chandran of Columbia University won a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on extracting nutrients and energy from wastewater and sewage