Seasonality shapes much of life on Earth. Most species, including humans, have synchronized their own rhythms with those of the Earth's seasons. Plant growth cycles, the migration of billions of ...

How does an ecosystem distribute its energy across body sizes? A new study suggests the answer depends on where you are—and how much humans have altered the landscape. Analyzing communities of birds ...

As biological researcher Kelly Estrada Piedrahita and her assistant, Shirley Fench, made their way through a slime-green-covered lake in a small boat, fellow researcher and photographer Haolun “Allen” ...

Change in natural (A) and human-induced (B) ET intensity of cropland in the Ebinur Lake Basin from 2003 to 2019. After 2013, the former decreased significantly while the latter increased significantly ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recent paper in Frontiers in Science argues that tracking ecosystem health and natural processes — not just counting species numbers — is ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recent study quantifies the impact of biodiversity loss on ecological functions by tracking energy flows within them. It found that declines in ...

Recent record-breaking sea temperatures in Europe have been primarily driven by human-caused climate change, posing severe ...