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 ...

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

The prospects for rational environmental policies in the U.S., including commitments to biodiversity and public health ...

A 15-year study in India's Spiti Valley revealed that replacing wild herbivores with livestock significantly affects ground-dwelling arthropods. Lives ...

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 ...

Compare a caterpillar to a butterfly or a maggot to a fly; newly hatched insect larvae don’t appear to be remotely related to the adults they will become. Not only ...

As the weather changes and spring approaches, Arizona residents may see more animals, including Gila monsters, snakes and ...

The best time to prune most of our deciduous trees and shrubs is late winter. One reason is that insect pests and plant ...

Colorado's forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees -- mostly due to insects and disease -- have caused the state's forests to emit more carbon than they absorbed in recent years, ...

Though sightings in Colorado are rare, these animals are crucial to the ecosystem as they help control populations of small ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified multiple pathways for microplastics to travel up the food chain.