Do animals play a larger role in shaping the Earth’s surface than geological processes like flooding, wind, fire, and landslides? This is what a recent study published in Proceedings of the National ...

The world’s scientists rely on an elaborate network of satellites, ocean buoys, weather stations, balloons, and other technologies to help predict the weather and assess the global effects of climate ...

Source: Petr Hamerník, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. How do you ask an animal if it is in pain? It can be challenging, since many species have evolved to hide potential vulnerability. At the ...

The world’s wildlife populations have declined by almost 70% in the last 50 years as their habitats have been polluted and cleared by humans. Yet, animals play a crucial role in reforestation, a new ...

The idea of animating the carbon cycle (ACC) is relatively new. The concept champions the role that healthy populations of wild animals, both terrestrial and marine, can play in boosting the ability ...

"Animals equipped with modern sensors could be seen as the 21st-century version of the canary in the coal mine." Ellis-Soto is the lead author of a perspective piece published Sept. 18 in the journal ...