New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of years before agriculture emerged. According to the study’s co-authors, the ...

A new study shows that resilient and remarkably diverse populations of organisms can persist in the soil despite harsh and ...

A team of researchers has confirmed the existence of at least one previously unknown nematode in the exceptionally salty lake ...

Scientists have identified a brand-new species of worm living in the Great Salt Lake, marking only the third known animal ...

When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A ...

In a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, AI was trained to classify bird sounds with increasing accuracy. The ...

Plants are on the frontline of global environmental change. As sessile organisms, they are constantly exposed to multiple ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown microscopic roundworm living in Utah's Great Salt Lake. Nematode, formally ...

UK ecosystems continue to deteriorate or show no change, rather than improvement, the latest data from the biodiversity ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown animal species living in the extreme environment of the Great Salt Lake, Utah. The microscopic organism, a free-living nematode now formally named ...

Utah biologists have characterized D. woaabi, the first of two nematode species recently discovered in the lake’s ...

Of the numerous anthropogenic pressures that are being exerted on ecosystems globally, plastic pollution and climate change are potentially the most pressing. This is particularly true when they ...