If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Global Ecosystems Atlas is a tool that aims to serve as an open-source repository for data on all the ecosystems in the world. Developed by the ...

Rapid changes in climate in the polar regions are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees of severity at all ecosystem levels. Even larger changes and more significant ...

Sustainability is, at its core, an ecosystem play. Fittingly, achieving sustainability requires cooperation among an ecosystem of actors. If you need evidence of this, consider the approaches of a few ...

Antibiotics that escape into the environment are widely recognized as a growing threat to ecosystems, wastewater treatment performance, and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. A new study shows ...

Frameworks of ecological risk assessments. a, Traditional dose–response linear models for conventional approaches. b, Nonlinear response patterns framework for natural ecosystems under multiple ...

Sea urchins climb onto kelp when their densities are so high they remove all drift kelp and then actively forage on attached, living kelp. (Credit: Steve Lonhart / NOAA MBNMS) Tipping points are the ...