A database of 10,000 bird species shows how measurements of wings, beaks and tails can predict a species’ role in an ecosystem.

Birds are the best known class of animals, and since 1999, only five or six new species have been described each year on average.

Sometimes it helps to check the facts. You may be surprised what you find.

Several weeks ago Professor Dickman, from the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Science, estimated that 480 million animals would be killed by the fires. 

Gelatinous zooplankton makes an important contribution to marine carbon transport.

Persistent temperature stress events are degrading coral reefs worldwide, but a new study from Florida Institute of Technology has found that corals in naturally turbid waters are less affected by thermal stress than corals in clearer water.

The next step is learning more about whether these root-associated fungi are keeping some nitrogen to themselves, and why.

A Texas A&M research team says processes leading to hypoxia led to the death of parts of the reefs at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.

Trees and insects may play a significant role in the emission of methane – a potent greenhouse gas – and improving our understanding of exactly how this happens could help in targeting more effective ways to fight global warming.

A new study in Nature Climate Change has found that, left unchecked, the combined effects of deforestation and human-induced climate change could eliminate Madagascar’s entire eastern rainforest habitat by 2070, impacting thousands of plants, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians that are endemic to the island nation.