Ecology

What's in that sourdough starter? New research sheds light on the mysterious microbes that influence our bread.

Brown tree snakes have been found to climb large trees by shaping their bodies into a lasso pattern.

As the Arctic gets hotter, its landscape releases more greenhouse gases. According to a new study, the warming Arctic soil's bacteria may diversify and emit even more greenhouse gas than scientists have thought.

Adding wetlands near nitrogen emitting sources could help limit water pollution caused by fertilizer run-off.

Commercial harvesting of plants may have forced them to evolve to camouflage and evade humans.

Sick vampire bats socially distance in the wild, according to a new study.

Ant colonies exposed to certain insecticides become smaller and weaker after a year. Are they another casualty in the war against crop-damaging pests.?

A comprehensive study indicates that over 500 terrestrial vertebrate species (which excludes fish, invertebrate, and plant species) will go extinct within the next decade unless we change our practices.

40 new species of fish have been found in Lake Mweru in East Africa. Breeding of related lineages may have allowed the cichlids to rapidly evolve to fill different ecological niches.

How prey species avoid multiple predators in the wild has long been puzzling, but now scientists have used GPS data from wolves, cougars, and elk at Yellowstone National Park to help unravel this mystery. Read Ben Andreone’s article to learn more!