A new study reveals how the smartphone can help scientists and conservationists understand and balance the needs of wildlife ...

Wildlife corridors are areas, such as nature preserves, overpasses and underpasses ... And yet, according to a study in Frontiers in Conservation, human activities seriously affect animals’ use of ...

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...

More than 1,550 marine species are currently at risk of extinction. Human activity is wreaking havoc on the state of the oceans around the world -- especially on marine life, according to the ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the ...

Human-induced pressures on the planet are accelerating a nature crisis that is threatening the extinction ... From 2004 to 2012, deforestation was decelerating — mostly from less activity in Brazil.

The bonds that hold nature together may be at risk of unraveling from deforestation, overfishing, development, and other human activities, a landmark United Nations report warns. Thanks to human ...

University of Staffordshire students have also helped to develop a ‘Wildlife Forensic Toolkit’ to aid rangers on the ground ...

A human-driven change in the Earth's rotation ... according to a new study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. "Enough ice has melted to move sea level enough that we can actually ...

In 2001, it said that it was "likely" that human activities lay behind the trends observed at various parts of the planet; "likely" in IPCC terminology means between 66% and 90% probability. Now, the ...

Their paper has just been published in the journal Nature. By comparing impacted ecosystems to similar, less-disturbed ones, the team quantified just how much human activity is altering nature.