Forest-to-agriculture conversion has been identified as a major threat to soil biodiversity and soil processes resilience, although the consequences of long-term land use change to microbial community ...

A research team from China examined the entire process of the ecological use of reclaimed water from water recharge to ...

Ecological inference requires integrating information across scales. This integration creates a complex spatial dependence structure that is most accurately represented by fully non-stationary models.

Purdue University has received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to explore the ecology of organic cropping systems ...

In an era of ubiquitous human entanglement with the natural world, scientists are turning to social–ecological systems approaches as a way to better understand our rapidly changing world. Writing in ...

What will the neighbors think? It didn’t take long for that question to become front of mind when Sara Weaner Cooper and her husband, Evan Cooper, bought their first home, in Blue Bell, Pa., in the ...

Climate change is accelerating the reorganization of river-lake systems on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, reshaping hydrological ...

Many of the world’s impoverished communities rely on the environment for their livelihoods. Dominant livelihood approaches focus on increasing incomes and trigger processes that disregard underlying ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Nanotechnology, a team of researchers from Tufts University has unveiled a novel nanomanufacturing method that utilizes water as the primary solvent. This ...

Most of the discussion in sustainable textiles has centered around the fibers–manufacturers making a switch to organic cotton, or creating fabrics from natural, easily-renewable materials like bamboo ...