Discover 25 rare species scientists only recently confirmed exist, from deep-sea isopods to new anacondas. Explore Earth's ...

Ciliates represent a diverse and ecologically significant group of microbial eukaryotes whose evolutionary relationships and species diversity continue to captivate researchers worldwide. Recent ...

While genetic diversity, the unique differences that determine the color of hair and the shape of a finch’s beak, is being lost across the world amid the world’s ongoing species extinction crisis, ...

The Trump administration is facing a lawsuit over its decision to exempt oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of America from the ...

The fungal genus Diaporthe encompasses a vast array of species that occupy diverse ecological niches as pathogens, endophytes and saprobes. Recent advances in multi‐gene phylogenetics have exposed ...

A federal court has overturned four key provisions of regulations that weakened the Endangered Species Act, issued by the Trump administration in 2019 and retained under the Biden administration.

A new critically endangered tree species has been discovered in Panama—one that was already under threat even before it was ...

Climate change is rapidly altering our environment—and posing major challenges for many animal species. Whether they can adapt depends largely on their genetic diversity. An international study ...

Ancient climate changes during the Ice Age still shape frog diversity across African rainforests, revealing hidden ...

In a recent study published in “Science of the Total Environment,” scientists at Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology and Zhejiang University found that the surface urban heat island effect had implications ...

President Donald Trump’s administration listed fewer vulnerable species for protection than any other presidential administration since Congress passed the Endangered Species Act.

An international study led by the University of Freiburg, published in Global Change Biology, has found that forests with many tree species can store significantly more carbon than those with only one ...