Ecosystem engineers are plants or animals that create, modify or maintain habitats. As Joshua Larsen, an associate professor at the University of Birmingham, explains, beavers are a perfect example of ...

Scientists have established that in addition to carbon storage, hedge rows planting along farmlands offer many environmental ...

Torrential rain is expected this week in Los Angeles, which risks producing flash flooding and landslides in areas stripped ...

In Dutch grasslands, biodiversity is being lost at incredible ... After the drought, precipitation returned to normal to assess the recovery of the ecosystems. The next step is to impose an extreme ...

A single straw harvest removes between five and 60 pounds of nitrogen per acre and between 0.5 and five pounds of phosphorus ...

The Fury of Earthquakes Earthquakes have been a formidable force throughout history, shaking the ground beneath our feet with ...

What Are Natural Disasters? Natural disasters are catastrophic events that occur as a result of natural processes of the ...

Hopkins villagers observed an alarming sight: bulldozers in a wetland area. They soon realized that the area was being filled up, and the mangroves that were there were being cut down. The residents ...

Extreme drought in grasslands experiment. [Photo provided to ] A groundbreaking study led by Chinese scientists has uncovered divergent drought survival strategie ...

A new study led by Conservation International scientists and published today has found that grassland restoration can reduce human-wildlife conflict and social conflicts in communities facing resource ...

For many years, scientists have been discussing whether the population in mountain regions is increasingly at risk from ...