Winning shots from the Capturing Ecology competition highlight the complex relationships that shape ecosystems.

Aquatic fungi represent a remarkably diverse and largely underexplored group within global ecosystems. They inhabit a range of environments from coastal lagoons and high‐altitude lakes to the vast ...

Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways that defy rigid expectations. Yet when it comes to discussing queer ...

Evolutionary ecology encompasses the study of how evolutionary processes―such as natural selection, mutation, and genetic drift―interact with ecological dynamics to shape the diversity, distribution, ...

Global leaders have committed to halting and reversing the ongoing degradation of nature within the next few decades. But ...

Suspended on a cable fixed between two trees in front of the Engineering Gateway building on UC Irvine’s campus hangs the RaccoonBot. And well, he’s just adorable. “The ‘cute factor’ wasn’t just a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The forests of northern Europe provided Tim Christophersen with his first education. As a child in rural Germany he followed his grandfather, a ...

New cross-sector initiative unites tech, ecology, and policy to shape how artificial intelligence supports nature ...

A conservation photographer based out of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, recently shared a powerful photo project that memorializes old-growth trees and shows the destructive effects of logging.

Pangolins, often called “scaly anteaters,” are among nature’s most extraordinary mammals. Their bodies are covered with tough, overlapping scales that act as living armor. These scales are more than ...