On this day every year, the world comes together to celebrate wetland ecosystems. Read about them and what is needed to spur ...

Dig deep. Climb high. Understand, manage, sustain, protect, and restore natural resources systems. The College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Technological University brings ...

Wetlands are disappearing three times faster than forests and are Earth’s most threatened ecosystem. In just 50 years — since 1970 — 35% of the world’s wetlands have been lost. Human ...

A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems.

Changes to any one organism in an ecosystem can alter another. If all the foxes in a habitat are killed, then the number of rabbits might increase quickly. If the fish in a pond are all caught ...

A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems.

Don't write off logged tropical forests -- converting to oil palm plantations has even wider effects on ecosystems Date: January 9, 2025 Source: University of Oxford Summary: A research team has ...

McWethy said its discovery yielded the first evidence from an alpine area of the ecosystem to indicate that mature forests had established upslope when temperatures were warmer. "This is pretty ...

Freshwater ecosystems in Canada and around the world are under siege. Lakes, rivers, ponds and wetlands face many ...

Freshwater habitats – including rivers, lakes, ponds ... ecosystem also faces threats from deforestation, wildfires and illegal gold mining, said Charvet. Illegal fires to clear forests result ...

Students from Catlin Gabel, a private school outside west Portland, has helped grow a "tiny forest" on campus, which is a compact ecosystem that mirrors the region's natural habitat. Pictured in ...