LAHAINA, Hawaii — Hinano Rodrigues remembers being 4 or 5 years old, carrying a bucket across a highway to the ocean in the Maui community where he still lives. At dawn, he would accompany his ...

According to the University of Rhode Island, PhD student Patrick Bailey has observed gray wolves hunting sea otters, which represents a significant behavioral shift. Wolves serve a vital role in ...

Just under 3% of the world's land remains ecologically intact, with undisturbed habitat and minimal loss of its original animal species, a new study suggests. The research, published Thursday in the ...

Animals and plants in land and marine ecosystems perform myriad functions that regulate climate and maintain habitable conditions for life on Earth. These functions include cycling water, carbon, ...

Australia increased protected land but many species still lack protection. The study shows why location matters more than ...

MONTEREY – A seemingly nondescript plot of land off Monterey-Salinas Highway 68 near the Monterey Regional Airport has been acquired by the Big Sur Land Trust to conserve and protect its significant ...

The ecosystems on the American Southwest’s federal lands are hemorrhaging carbon dioxide into the atmosphere faster than any other region in the U.S., according to a recent study from the U.S.

The atmosphere and the earth’s ecosystems are parts of a coupled system. For a large variety of processes, forcing from one partner in the interaction elicits one or more responses from the other ...