Continuous removal of a sand layer of the riverbed can lead to the destruction of the habitat of microorganisms maintaining the river’s biological health and endanger ecosystem services.

Imagine walking across the seemingly endless, sun-baked plains of southern Africa. The ground looks barren, the air shimmers ...

In the heart of the Colombian Amazon, the towering mountains of the Serranía del Chiribiquete harbor secrets including South ...

As illegal mining alters the riverbeds and drains life from these once-thriving arteries, the need for sustainable management becomes urgent. To preserve rivers as living, life-giving entities, we ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

Our study found L. dotatum strongly preferred nesting in pots covered with rock gravel over those with bare sand. This ...

Ms Broughton said the group was engaging coastal engineers to show how the sand removal was negatively impacting the seaside ecosystem. "Significant damage has already been done, so every tonne ...

The Chel Snakehead fish, thought to be extinct, has made a dramatic comeback to the eastern Himalayan ecosystem after more ...

A pest eradication project at a lake north of Auckland is cleaning up water that has not been the same since a fanatical fisherman illegally introduced invasive fish more than 50 years ago.

Environmentalists warn that even light construction on the beach would destroy one of Egypt’s last untouched marine ...

I’ve already dodged a couple of giant tortoises along the white sand path on my morning walk ... the real work of ecosystem engineering begins at the back end of this slow-moving grazer.