New research indicates a better way to raise long-spined sea urchins for repopulating coral reef ecosystems.

We're not the only mammals that farm for a living. Pocket gophers do, too, tending to roots they harvest for food in 500-foot-long tunnels.

New climate change ecology research links the amount of carbon dioxide taken in by land ecosystems, such as forests, to the availability of water.

Scientists have uncovered an entire network of gastrointestinal parasite sharing among 17 wild and domestic herbivore species.

A world with more sublethal parasitic infections is a greener world. New research clarifies how that relationship works.

A new book considers urban wildlife and their place in American cities. "Cities bring together diverse creatures in new ways," says the author.

Nitrogen availability is declining in parts of the world, research finds. "There is both too much nitrogen and too little nitrogen on Earth at the same time."

City environments are changing the way plants evolve, a new study of white clover, one of the few organisms present in almost every city on Earth, shows.

Hispaniola's mountains support large swaths of intact tropical dry forests. A trip there turned up Castela senticosa, a new plant species.

Crustaceans called beach hoppers can be a significant portion of island foxes' diets, research finds.