Ecology

Millions of vultures have died over the past 20 years, victims of a painkiller drug gone wrong

And it's only ever been seen three times ever.

Researchers built a "phantom road" through wilderness using tree-mounted speakers to play traffic sounds, and witnessed a decline in bird fitness and diversity. Christopher Intagliata reports

Climate change could put a type of oceanic bacteria into evolutionary overdrive in a way that could pose a threat to its long-term survivability and its important role in the food chain

For a location that’s so difficult to reach, it’s astonishing how many speices have managed to make the journey

Oh, great. As if the communicable cancer already wiping out the species weren’t bad enough

Consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst-case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models

Crown-of-thorns sea stars are an "underwater swarm of locusts" that devour coral—unless the coral is protected by a layer of seaweed. Christopher Intagliata reports

It’s called co-extinction and it’s coming for some poorly understood species

Tiny Lumholtz’s tree kangaroos are inexplicably dying in Queensland, Australia

Three nationwide design teams reveal realistic plans to massively rebuild the disintegrating delta

A newly discovered strain of bacteria found in Arctic permafrost harvests methane from the air—meaning it could help mitigate the effects of warming. Christopher Intagliata reports