Area of Focus: Habitat Ecology

December 5, 2025

Avian flu cuts through elephant seal numbers

Virus may have caused loss of 50% of breeding females

December 3, 2025

Bats help German farmers beat pests

With enough natural areas around, bats protect agriculture

December 2, 2025

Are raccoons domesticated? Not quite yet

Trash pandas may be going the way of the wolves

November 25, 2025

EPA shrinks workforce and wetlands definition

The Trump administration has proposed to remove federal wetlands protections as workforce shrinks by 17%

November 21, 2025

Watch: Once extinct, reintroduced snails glow with hope

Conservationists conduct the largest release ever of recovering extinct-in-the-wild snails

November 20, 2025

Are ocelots and opossums in cahoots?

Scientists document first-ever associations between ocelots and opossums

November 19, 2025

Road noise may give solace to squirrels

Researchers finds that gray squirrels may actually seek out busy highways

November 19, 2025

Wild Cam: Restoration boosts cryptic salamander numbers

Endangered Barton Springs salamanders are found only in a handful of places in downtown Austin

November 18, 2025

How birds react to fire depends on where they live

Data from eBird shows regional fire effects on bird populations

November 13, 2025

Dozens of sunken WWI ships are homes for wildlife

After nearly 100 years, nature has reclaimed warships abandoned in the Potomac