The Mediterranean Sea houses nine cetacean species, including the fin and sperm whales, both endangered. Scientists are using modern techniques like metabarcoding environmental DNA to study these ...

As we move through the world, we leave behind invisible traces of ourselves encased in the hair, skin, and other bodily ...

Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors ...

Before native species can be returned to their former ranges, conservationists must first know where these former habitats ...

Flour choice shapes the bacteria in sourdough starters, even though the same yeast dominates across all types.

A team of researchers sampling soil beneath a millennia-old conifer in southern Chile found that a single ancient tree can ...

Alpine lakes across the American West, long prized for their crystalline water and stark beauty, are losing their clarity. Sediment records spanning more than four centuries show that algal growth in ...

Their size and behaviour put these whales at high risk of collision with ships. They are also affected by other human activities like shipping traffic, noise pollution and habitat degradation. The ...

The Mediterranean Sea is home to some of the ocean’s largest animals. Among the nine species of cetaceans commonly ...

chlorophyta; high throughput sequencing; King George Island; Phaeophyceae; Rhodophyta; seaweeds Although the term phycosphere was originally developed with reference to bacterial studies, many other ...