The Bird 10,000 Genome Project (B10K) is a large international project co-led by University of Copenhagen, China National Genebank at BGI-Shenzhen, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Rockefeller University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A research project led by UVic geography postdoctoral fellow Melanie Clapham proves that individual brown bears can be identified from photographs alone—something which had previously only been done for primates.

The late fall season sampling indicates that delays in sea ice formation are supporting late-season biological production that has not been commonly observed before.

Condition status score is “fair,” but reefs are vulnerable and declining.

Plastic has become ubiquitous in modern life and its accumulation as waste in the environment is sounding warning bells for the health of humans and wildlife.

Biologists used to studying endangered Southern Resident killer whales spent almost a week in September on a whole different kind of effort.

When wolves returned to Yellowstone in 1995, no one imagined the predators would literally change the course of rivers in the national park through cascading effects on other animals and plants.

Dynamic mixing and churning of currents around some South Atlantic islands makes for biologically productive waters.

Research leads to new understanding of the coral skeleton and its formation.

A new study reveals the damage that a nuclear war might take on wild-caught seafood around the world, from salmon and tuna to the shrimp in shrimp cocktails.