This ecosystem by many names—bogs, swamps, bayous, marshes, billabongs, fens, vernal pools, lagoons and other waterlogged fields and forests all fall under the broad wetland category. If water, salty ...

On a special episode (first released on August 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: 'Freakosystems' are novel ecosystems where native and invasive species mix. What do these wild wonders reveal about the ...

A grey wolf prowls through Yellowstone National Park near Mammoth Hot Springs in Montana. A group of 66 wolves was reintroduced to Idaho and Yellowstone in the late 1990s. They now total 2,800 ...

Ecosystems have become the hottest new idea in managerial conversations today. While the previous favorite, “disruption,” posed problems and suggested despair, ecosystems are all about solutions and ...

It's hard to believe that some ecosystems are thriving in such harsh environments. Studying and understanding these ecosystems can help us protect or repair them, and it can also help us appreciate ...

While peatlands occupy just 3% of Earth's land surface, scientists say they store about 30% of the planet's land-based carbon ...

Anybody who has seen me walking with a cane knows that I'm not exactly a spring chicken. Some might joke that my social life is an example of carbon dating. As an aging example of Homo sapiens, I'd ...

Social justice must be at the heart of global restoration initiatives—and not "superficial" or "tokenistic"—if ecosystem degradation is to be addressed effectively, according to new research.

Beautiful, diverse, ephemeral and mysterious. Those were just some of the words Micah Kloppenburg used to describe pollinators. Kloppenburg has been particularly engaged this week; he's a pollinator ...

Yellowstone has long been a mecca for scientists studying how predators affect everything from elk grazing to vegetation ...

Across North America, mountain lions, bears and gray wolves have made a remarkable comeback over the last 50 years. Once nearly exterminated, these animals have been recovering their populations and ...