Decades of development along L.A.'s steep canyons and hillsides, combined with prolonged drought, have left the city's landscapes highly vulnerable.

Many ecologists hypothesize that, as global warming accelerates, change in nature must speed up. They assume that as ...

As the planet warms, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, a massive global study shows that species turnover has slowed by about one-third since the 1970s. Nature’s constant ...

Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, ...

“Rights of nature” is a movement aimed at advancing the understanding that ecosystems, wildlife and the Earth are living beings with inherent rights to exist, evolve and regenerate. Legal rights are ...

Five years ago, the economist Partha Dasgupta warned that business was self-cannibalising: consuming the natural systems it depends on as if they were infinite, while investing almost nothing in their ...

A couple of weeks ago, one of my advanced placement environmental science students, Quintin, who happens to work on a lobster boat during his free time, brought in a tiny treasure to show me. He had ...

The subject area represents the next stage of the database’s evolution, and heralds other proposed changes to journal selection and article categorization. The first Nature Index tables in the applied ...