On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

Imagine a fishing boat leaving the shores of one nation, its nets cast wide, unaware that the ripples of its catch will reach ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

According to a new study, whale urine is massively beneficial to oceans. In fact, without the gallons upon gallons of whale ...

Ecosystems which have never been seen before are being accidentally created by humans. They offer a stark look into the ...

The beach vitex is a western Pacific plant that is a major threat to coastal ecosystems and has heavily appeared on more than 700 locations on North Carolina beaches, and ...

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit “next-level” highs, scientists say. Earth’s ecosystems breaking down under extreme ...

As people around the world celebrate Earth Day this year by planting trees and turning off a few lights, scientists look ...

An executive order means that US fishers can now operate in certain parts of the 1,282,534 square-kilometer region.

On an atoll dominated by giant tortoises, the real work of ecosystem engineering begins ... swath of islands dimpling the western Indian Ocean until seafarers during the Age of Exploration from ...

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