As humans continue to destroy the habitats of migratory animals, their numbers continue to decrease. Many of these species play important ecological roles, and certain ecosystems will be altered ...

After years of construction, Safari Park’s massive new elephant habitat is opening ...

DNA is a powerful conservation tool, allowing scientists to sample DNA from the environment and better protect the animal ...

Michael Sievers receives funding from the Australian Research Council, project DE220100079, the National Environmental Science Program, and philanthropic foundations. Christopher Brown receives ...

The Trump administration is proposing to significantly limit the Endangered Species Act's power to preserve crucial habitats by changing the definition of one word: harm. On Wednesday, the ...

Habitats are diverse environments where plants and animals live, providing natural resources that living things need to survive. From vast ocean habitats to the frozen arctic tundra, there are many ...

Mason Lee, senior project coordinator for the Biodiversity Institute, shows local K-6 students a Western hognose snake in the UW Biodiversity Center. The students helped create and build naturalistic ...

The scientists from Britain, Australia and Colombia said plants, amphibians and reptiles were most vulnerable as global temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change. About 57 percent of plants and ...

Where are habitats available for threatened species? Are they improving or deteriorating? What landscapes could potentially be used for rewilding animals? A new modeling framework has combined years ...

While many NASA missions look out into space from Earth, some are based in space but look back at Earth. Earth observation missions are important for studying the changing climate, and NASA has a ...

You’ve probably heard about deforestation or urban sprawl harming wildlife, but the damage doesn’t always come in one big sweep. Sometimes, it’s death by a thousand cuts, where once-thriving habitats ...

LEARNING ABOUT OUR LOCAL ANIMALS AND ECOSYSTEMS. FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST ERIC BURRIS IS AT THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER TO LEARN HOW CRAFTS AND A GLASS JAR CAN HELP TEACH US THE SCIENCE BEHIND ...