Domestic grazers are increasingly replacing wild herbivores in ecosystems around the world, leading to insidious changes in soil characteristics and vegetation patterns. A long-term study carried out ...

The females will have sperm stored since last autumn; it’s only when they emerge in the spring that they will ovulate and ...

Mosquitoes cause around a million deaths per year. So, scientists are coming up with genetic engineering techniques that ...

Spiders are declining in livestock-grazed areas, while ticks and mites are increasing. This change affects ecosystems and ...

EU bans caffeine use in pesticides - because it’s ‘harmful to humans if swallowed’ - In banning the substance for use on ...

The corn earworm causes the loss of more than 76,000 bushels of corn in the United States annually, and there is mounting evidence that increasingly extreme weather events and temperatures will ...

All organisms in an ecosystem are interconnected, and any imbalance in this complex relationship can have irreversible ...

The study was one of several that assessed the effects of climate change on three species of butterflies whose populations are declining.

This kind of boomerang weather is called false spring — a day or two of warmth bracketed on either end by cold — and it is a ...

Is your garden filled with unwanted dirt mounds? You might have a mole problem - here's how to solve it safely and humanely ...