Imagine walking across the seemingly endless, sun-baked plains of southern Africa. The ground looks barren, the air shimmers ...

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

As trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in — for better or worse, scientists are learning ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the absurdly long pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these ...

W hen Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...

An ecosystem is like a community – it consists of both living organism and their habitat. And if we look at this forest ecosystem, and the connections within it, we can see how all the plants ...

With around 20% of Indiana being forest land and 83% of that privately owned, it can be challenging for some Hoosiers to ...

There are many other old-growth forests across the continent. Each of these forests has a unique ecology, but all are under ...

The Bristlecone Pine Forest is home to Pinus longaeva trees that defy our understanding of longevity. The star of this remarkable ecosystem is “Methuselah,” a bristlecone pine ... later discovered to ...

The Glasgow fossils have yielded evidence of this biodiversity, including tracks, burrows, and occasionally body fossils of these animals, providing a comprehensive picture of one of Earth’s most ...

The Bitterroot Ecosystem has no known resident grizzlies, but wildlife managers have confirmed the presence of bears roaming through the 44,000-square-mile landscape.