Intact ecosystems conserve genetic resources for future generations and play a key role for responding to climate change. Protected areas are refuges for ecosystems and biodiversity. The German ...

From a biological perspective, it is important for scientists and the general public to understand that organisms do interact with their environment; in this sense, it often incorporates the terms ...

An ecosystem is a natural environment where everything interacts to support life. Ecosystems are made up of living – or biotic – organisms, like plants and animals;which rely on nonliving – or abiotic ...

EVERY FEW weeks from June 1963 until July 1968, Robert Paine, a zoologist, made the journey from Seattle, where he taught at the University of Washington, across Puget Sound to the rocky shores of ...

An exotic animal farm owner, Terry Thompson, was found dead Tuesday in Zanesville, Ohio and an unknown number of wild animals escaped his farm, including bears, giraffes, camels, wolves, tigers, ...

If you don’t know what to look for at Crowberry Bog, you’re liable to miss something miraculous, ecologist Joe Rocchio says over the squish squish of his boots through peat on a gray May morning.

Overfishing of one fish negatively impacts the entire ecosystem. Pictured, wholesalers check the quality of fresh tunas displayed at the Tsukiji market in Tokyo January 5, 2014. Fish this size can ...