ecosystem

China’s One Belt, One Road investments into the timber industries in both countries—as well as rampant illegal logging—have created an environmental crisis.

We all stand to benefit from protecting biodiversity and repairing our waterways.

A new study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to recognize—and avoid—a mass extinction in the modern world.

A microscopic marine alga is thriving in the North Atlantic to an extent that defies scientific predictions, suggesting swift environmental change as a result of carbon dioxide absorbed by the ocean.

Vitus Bering, the famous explorer, led perhaps the most ambitious scientific expedition ever in the 1730s.

In 2009, Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for economics.

Abrupt climate changes off the coast of Southern California caused small decreases in seawater oxygenation.

The water below the Antarctic ice sheet is as cold and dark as ever, but it turns out it’s not as desolate as scientists thought. There’s a whole ecosystem down there.

Sharks are in danger in most parts of the world, with a quarter of all sharks and rays now threatened with extinction.