Ecology

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

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

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.