A tiny flightless midge which has colonised Antarctica’s Signy Island is driving fundamental changes to the island’s soil ecosystem.

Small-scale wildlife surveys can reveal the health of entire ecosystems, new research shows.

Making uniform decisions to justify the decommissioning of offshore artificial structures at the end of their lives could pose significant environmental challenges, a new study has said.

The theory that water-breathing animals such as fish will shrink due to global warming has been called into question by a study published today in eLife.

Fungal networks interconnecting trees in a forest is a key factor that determines the nature of forests and their response to climate change.

Microbes play important roles in ecosystems, and these roles are changing with global warming.

Led by Jizhong Zhou, Ph.D., the director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma, an international research team conducted a long term experiment that found that climate warming reduced the diversity of and significantly altered the community structure of soil archaea.

Greenlandic ice is teeming with life, both on the surface and underneath.

For decades, scientists have looked to seaweed as an indicator of the health of coral reefs lying underneath.

New research led by an Oregon State University scientist begins to unravel the role dust plays in nourishing global ocean ecosystems while helping regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.