The previous administrator for the UN Development Programme, Gus Speth, talked about how when starting his career he used to think that the world’s environmental problems could be solved by good ...

How do organisms interact with their environment? How do ecosystems function and maintain balance? How can we achieve sustainability in the use of natural resources? These are just a few of the timely ...

Researchers find the behavior of complex ecosystems can be predicted based on just two pieces of information: the number of species in the community and how strongly they interact with each other.

Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

Over the past several years, scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that the cells of various organisms can be repurposed into biological robots, representing stunning advancements in the field of ...

Whales and dolphins have an interesting relationship. Some whales are known to hunt dolphins, but certain observations indicate that they also share social relationships. The social aspect of this ...

Neuroscientists usually investigate one brain at a time. They observe how neurons fire as a person reads certain words, for example, or plays a video game. As social animals, however, those same ...