species distribution

Five years after largest marine heatwave on record hit northern California coast, many warm-water species have stuck around.

The genome sequences of 51 giraffes from all over Africa contribute to the latest attempt in an ongoing pursuit to pin down a species number.

Human activities may be affecting both narrow-ranged plants and widespread ones.

A group of scientists in northern Norway are using the technique to measure biodiversity’s response to past and present climate change.

Over 30 years, one-third of the wild bees and hoverfly species surveyed sustained losses, likely due to pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change.

China’s ongoing Belt and Road Initiative passes through areas that are already at risk of swapping organisms.

In the last year, the butterfly’s eastern group has more than doubled its hibernation area while the other population waned. Plus, researchers are moving trees to save monarch habitat.

A higher species richness could boost plant communities’ ability to mitigate climate change, a study suggests.

As artificial light increases in volume and geographical coverage around the world, a variety of animals are suffering ill effects.

The loss of darkness can harm individual organisms and perturb interspecies interactions, potentially causing lasting damage to life on our planet.

To calculate the likelihood that organisms will be harmed by climate change, researchers estimate their exposure, sensitivity, and ability to adapt to new conditions.

A once critically endangered species of leaf frog has made a comeback. 

Marine species survived rafting thousands of kilometers on debris swept into the water by the giant wave, scientists say.

Important pollinators under threat from habitat destruction, bumblebees may find refuge on vacant land throughout Michigan’s largest metropolis.

More than half of the world’s land may have passed the threshold that threatens long-term sustainable development, researchers report.

Seafloor seismometers record hundreds of thousands of fin whale calls, allowing marine geophysicists to track the elusive marine mammals.

A geophysicist stumbled on a way to track elusive fin whales with seismometers.

Rising temperatures allow one mountain ant to climb higher, displacing a related species and possibly upsetting plant ecology.

Increasing evidence suggests that loss of Earth’s biological diversity will compromise our planet’s ability to provide the goods and services societies need to prosper.