First Direct Observation of an Under-Ice Algal Bloom in the Arctic
During a NASA-sponsored ICESCAPE expedition, scientists found a massive algal bloom under the Arctic sea ice. Once thought impossible, this marks the first direct observation…
During a NASA-sponsored ICESCAPE expedition, scientists found a massive algal bloom under the Arctic sea ice. Once thought impossible, this marks the first direct observation…
According to a new study, ecologists at Brown University have discovered that recreational fishing has reduced predators in many of Cape Cod’s salt marsh ecosystems,…
A new paper by 22 international scientists describes the need for better predictive models based on detailed understandings of how the biosphere reacted in the…
With little known about how plants produce cocaine, biochemists at the Max Planck institute set out to better understand the process, finding that an enzyme…
Working with populations of yeast growing in test tubes, researchers at MIT published the first experimental validation of the theory that populations suffering a decline…
The greatest mass extinction pulse was the Permian-Triassic extinction event, and it happened about 250 million years ago, nearly wiping out life on Earth. It…
In a newly published study, Yale biologists describe how dams built 300 years ago in Colonial times fundamentally changed the structure of the alewife, the…
A newly published report describes the mathematical linkages between leaf vein systems and leaf size from around the globe, improving scientists’ ability to predict and…
To better understand how to protect coral reefs, a team of microbiologists are investigating how environmental changes, such as oxygen depletion and ocean acidification, create…
While studying base pairs of human genomes from over 14,000 people, researchers discovered a dramatically higher rate than they expected of rare genetic variants, finding…
A newly published study from Stanford scientists describes one of the longest ecological interaction chains ever documented and sheds light on how human disturbance of…
Now open to the public, a demonstration version of the “Map of Life” is set to illustrate how all living things on the planet are…
If you thought living on fast-food, candy, soda and red meat was dangerous, try a diet of carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide. That’s what researchers…
While studying desert ants, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology discovered that ants were able to use magnetism and vibrational signals in…
Paleoecologists have reconstructed a Permian-era swampy forest, filled with long-extinct plant species, thanks to analyses of well-preserved fossils entombed in a layer of volcanic ash…
At dusk, A. musicus sings in a Jurassic forest of Northwest China. Credit: Audio by Dr. Fernando Montealegre Zapata; 3D forest reconstruction from work by…
A team of researchers comprised of climate modelers, marine conservationists, ocean chemists, biologists, and ecologists published their recent research into ocean acidity in the January…
Jacques Cousteau warned that humans were having a negative impact on coral reefs. Some three decades later, ecologist and biology professor Phil Dustan has witnessed…