If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer is a resounding yes—and we know this for certain because of the vast network of audio recorders that ...

Many ecologists hypothesize that, as global warming accelerates, change in nature must speed up. They assume that as temperatures rise and climatic zones shift, species will face local extinction and ...

Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not only the passage of time, but shifting rules of nature itself. An ...

Josiah Kephart, faculty member at the Urban Health Collaborative (UHC) and Usama Bilal, Co-Director of the UHC, have recently published a dual commentary in Nature Medicine. The article, Disentangling ...

It’s easy to demonstrate the need to fund nature conservation, beyond simply funding the fight against climate change. Wildlife populations have declined 73 percent since 1970, one million species are ...