Land no longer suitable for agriculture could be reclaimed as habitat for dozens of endangered species, according to a new analysis.

Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered three new species of groundwater salamander in Central Texas, including one living west of Austin that they say is critically endangered.

A new study is shedding light on the importance of one critical resource for Andean bears living in the dry mountain forests of Peru: water. 

A species of small but mighty fish are the latest residents of Trevor Pitcher’s research centre — pioneers in the quest to bring endangered fish back from the brink of extinction.

Climate change-induced melting will raise global sea levels for decades to come.

With a temperature sensor in hand, researchers can engineer crops that produce yields in warmer climates.

Given the pressures that pollinators face in agricultural land, cities could play an important role in conserving pollinators, according to a new study. 

There are only so many fish in the sea. And our appetite for seafood has already stressed many wild fisheries to the breaking point

520 million years ago, animals had just started to diversify on Earth. Only a few but precious biotas containing these animals are preserved until today as fossils.

Rising among fir and spruce on the Canadian Shield, the Ottawa River flows through forests and wetlands and alongside bucolic orchards and farms.