Pinpointing when early land plants colonized terrestrial environments and began influencing Earth's systems is a core ...

Described as nature’s “self-repairing engine,” short-term species turnover isn’t increasing as scientists expect—and that’s a ...

In the Tibetan Plateau, organophosphate tri-esters (tri-OPEs) and di-OPEs in soil and biota of a typical terrestrial food chain (plant–plateau pika–eagle) have been simultaneously identified with ...

How can forest shading improve biodiversity? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University of Illinois ...

Pharmaceuticals have a wide range of detrimental side effects on people. Scientists also know that pharmaceutical pollution is widespread in aquatic ecosystems, largely due to wastewater outflows and ...