environment Archives

Arctic Warming Reduces Sea Ice and Energy for Polar Bears

Polar bears struggle to have enough energy to survive because melting sea ice makes it harder to find food.

Ecology

This invasive species threatens agriculture but perhaps for not much longer, as trained dogs can detect their eggs in vineyards and forests.

Do you have a bird feeder at home? Fifty percent of Americans do. Learn how to feed the birds without causing them to crash into your window.

Climate change’s effects can be reduced by soils storing carbon. But the soil carbon sink is itself vulnerable to climate change.

Environmental conditions influenced the time and space of the first human migrations according to archaeological, genetic, and climatic data.

Bioengineers produce a plant-based protein with a fraction of the environmental impact of meat by altering mushroom proteins.

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria help plants obtain a usable form of nitrogen. But what’s the science behind it, and how can it benefit crops?

Rainforest conservation gains new focus with the discovery that just 2% of the diverse tree species in the forest account for half the trees.

Certain plastics are easier to recycle based on their internal structure. Scientists can change that structure to increase what we recycle.

Scientists examine how soil microbial communities resume ecosystem functioning after a wildfire, with a focus on the effects of dispersal.