Continued overfishing of forage fish such as sardines and herring can result in devastating ecological and economic outcomes.
Continued overfishing of forage fish such as sardines and herring can result in devastating ecological and economic outcomes.
Record fish die-offs in the Midwest call for a fresh look at how humans are disrupting the planet’s essential water cycle.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.
Researchers estimate annual investment needed to conserve habitats and save the world’s most at-risk species.
A unique organism sighted only once, more than a century ago, could shed light on the evolution of multicellularity—if it ever actually existed.
Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
Epigenetic changes accrued over an organism’s lifetime may leave a permanent heritable mark on the genome, through the help of long noncoding RNAs.
Scientists unravel the confusing molecular biology behind a fruit fly’s reliance on a single type of cactus.
A former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and one of the early forces behind the Clean Air Act, dies at 92.