A friend of mine once rode his bicycle from the coast of Washington state across the country to Maine. In that long journey he crossed through four different biomes and entered one biome twice, on ...

The retreat of the planet's glaciers is one of the most visible and dramatic indicators of the far-reaching impact of climate change on the world's ecosystems. Now, a new paper published in Nature ...

Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology and writes on topics from zoology and psychology to herpetology. Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology and writes on ...

For decades, ecologists have puzzled over a mystery: Why do some natural habitats get overrun by invasive species while others seem to repel outside threats? In a classic 1958 book on the subject, the ...

Dying coral reefs, rainforests transforming into savannas, grasslands turning into deserts – these are ecosystem “tipping points”, boundary lines we’re desperate not to cross. In dynamic systems ...