Habitat destruction and fragmentation remain the primary threats to biodiversity and as little as 9% of Earth’s terrestrial habitats may at present be adequately connected. A new initiative seeks to ...

The order Odonata, comprising dragonflies and damselflies, represents a group of insects whose diversity and dual aquatic‐terrestrial life cycle make them invaluable sentinels of environmental change.

While much research has focused on the striking differences in biodiversity between tropical and temperate regions, another, equally dramatic, pattern has gone largely unstudied: the differences in ...

In 2020 and 2021, California experienced fire activity unlike anything recorded in the modern record. When the smoke cleared, the amount of burned forest totaled ten times more than the annual average ...

A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters used satellite mapping data to analyze how changes in human footprint on the landscape between 1970 and 2018 overlapped with ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— In response to a legal agreement with environmental groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today proposed to designate roughly 8,850 acres of beaches and ...

Repeated road counts across South Africa show that half of the country’s surveyed raptor and large terrestrial bird species have declined significantly over recent decades, adding to a growing body of ...

The only thing constant is change – isn’t that how the saying goes? We know that wildlife in western forests evolved with changing habitat and disturbances like wildfire. Each species responds ...