A drought before a wildfire increases the likelihood of trees dying in the fire by 78%, a study in the western U.S. finds

Canids as Pollinators?

Wing-slapping: A defensive behavior by honey bees against ants

Reuse of aging fronds in tropical mountain forest tree ferns: Zombie leaves

A win–win between farmers and an apex predator: investigating the relationship between bald eagles and dairy farms

Climate change could mean more intense locust outbreaks and threaten food security, study finds

Scientific paper raises awareness about wildfire misinformation

Caribou herds in Canada are continuing to decline despite significant recovery efforts

The unprecedented fires that devastated parts of Australia in 2020 can be attributed in part to colonialism

Squirrels are eating poisonous mushrooms without getting sick

Museum specimens reveal increasing microplastics in freshwater fish

Octopuses punch fishes during collaborative interspecific hunting events

Octopuses observed "punching" fishes that are part of their hunting groups

A regular dose of nature and the existence of green window views from within the home during the COVID‐19 pandemic was associated with increased levels of self‐esteem, life satisfaction, and subjective happiness and decreased levels of depression…

Komodo dragons are not ecological analogs of apex mammalian predators

Asian black bears obtain about 80% of the energy they need in a year by eating acorns in autumn.

Underestimating the benefits of marine protected areas for the replenishment of fished populations

Study on Chernobyl region bank voles shows harmful and significant radiation effects on populations even at the lowest levels of radioactivity

Marine biologists recently discovered large schools of fishes living in the dark depths of the Gulf of California where there is virtually no oxygen

A new study indicates mixed-severity wildfire is essential for conserving avian biodiversity in many fire-maintained systems such as California's Sierra Nevada