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Satellite measurements of Earth's gravity show the Upper Colorado River Basin lost more groundwater than the Lower basin during the drought of 2020 to 2022. E. O. Oyedele of Virginia Tech's…
Plant diversity in a grazed Eurasian steppe peaked where grazing was neither heavy nor absent, as a long-standing idea in ecology predicts, while the community of organisms in the soil underneath did…
Botanists have described a new species of giant waterlily from the upper Orinoco basin in eastern Colombia. The description was published Oct. 7, 2026, in the journal Phytotaxa, under the name…
A 4,000-km field survey of the arid and semi-arid grasslands of northern China reports that plant and soil-microbe diversity do not thin out smoothly as the land gets drier. Instead the survey finds…
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization published the 2026 edition of its flagship forest assessment on Sept. 28, at the opening of the agency's Committee on Forestry (COFO) in Rome. The report puts…
More than a third of the forest the world lost in 2022 was cleared to make goods that were finally bought in another country, according to a peer-reviewed study published Sept. 28, 2026 in…
Picture a familiar landscape (a stretch of coast, a patch of forest, a wetland you have known for years), and then imagine it slowly filling with the wrong things. Species that were never there…
Lifeguards on night patrol saw an olive ridley sea turtle dig into the sand and lay eggs near Seal Beach in Southern California on Sept. 16, and a second turtle nest, possibly from the same animal,…
A study published Sept. 21, 2026, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that evolution does not prevent the black-browed albatross from declining under projected climate…
Environmental DNA taken from water samples and interviews with local fishers have both placed Mytella strigata, a brackish-water mussel native to Central and South America, in the estuaries of Kerala…
A streetlight on a seawall does not switch off at low tide. Below it the rock is alive with things that cannot move away: seaweeds, flat crusts, a slick of microbes and the small animals that graze…
Corporate sustainability ratings do not reliably reflect how much forest a company is clearing, researchers at the National University of Singapore report in a study published Sept. 14 in the…