Ecology

Artists have long used odd things in their work – Marcel Duchamp’s urinal on a pedestal comes to mind – but even when unusual ingredients are less obvious, they can be present.

Here's the crazy thing about living in Hawaii: Even though the islands are home to more than 18,000 unique species that live nowhere else on Earth, the people of Hawaii rarely see those native plants and animals.

I think we can all agree that dogs are great at everything. Except being bad friends, they're terrible at that. They're especially great at having jobs, and increasingly, researchers are realising their potential as wildlife scouts to help them track down the struggling species that (understandably) are doing their best to stay hidden.

The world's rarest big cats have become ever-so-slightly less rare over the past decade. According to a census released this week, there are now at least 57 Amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis) in Russia.

The powder and water used to make baby formula may be sources of arsenic, which occurs naturally in the environment and in large doses is linked to serious health problems

Chinese companies press forward with plans to process coal into other fuels, despite water scarcity and excess climate change pollution

In Minnesota, high levels of mercury may date back to the 1700s

Nations agree that global action must be taken to improve the health of the deep ocean

I can't seem to go a day without hearing someone say, "Get to Cuba before all the Americans get there." What exactly is it that Americans will change once they get to Cuba?

As if rampant deforestation and poaching weren't bad enough, climate change will have a devastating effect on the majority of Madagascar's lemur species, most of them already imperiled, according to a paper published this week in Ecology and Evolution.

If left unconstrained, global warming could wreak havoc on the Big Apple

New tools and techniques reveal global warming's evil twin at work in seawater