Beavers are semi-aquatic mammals, widely renowned for their remarkable abilities in building dams and lodges made of branches ...

Some of the trees along the Boise Greenbelt at the southeast end of the city are wrapped at their bases with chicken wire. These are not Christmas trees, and this ornamentation, strung by the city of ...

FOR WESH TWO NEWS AT NOON. OKAY, LET’S TURN OUR ATTENTION TO THE ENGINEERS OF THE ECOSYSTEM. WE’RE TALKING HERE ABOUT CORAL REEFS. FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST MARQUISE MEDA IS AT THE ORLANDO SCIENCE ...

Beyond tall cliffs and Whidbey’s southernmost beach lies a 90-acre underwater forest wrapping around almost the entirety of Possession Point. Rows and rows of bull kelp filter the morning light ...

Most animals move through their habitats focused on survival rather than construction. They eat, dig, travel, and reproduce without any intention of redesigning the land around them. Yet the combined ...

The Earth has innumerable creatures in the jungles, oceans, skies, and under the mud, some of them might even yet be unknown to science. Many among these organisms also perform some hidden work that ...

Faunal organisms such as the humble mussel often play an underappreciated yet important role in protecting and building coastal ecosystems, according to a new study led by the Carbon Containment Lab ...

An unscientific bias against “feral” or “invasive” animals threatens to undercut one of the great stabilizing trends making ecosystems healthier, a new paper argues. Introduced species such as feral ...