Robin Wall Kimmerer, the bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, recently published The Serviceberry, which explores the economies of nature. In an e360 interview, the Native American ecologist ...

Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized ...

Our aquatic plant specialist explains the differences between invasive and native milfoils, why native milfoils are important ...

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Pollinators help plants grow and ecosystems thrive, but their decline threatens nature, biodiversity, and food security.

Applying industrial ecology practices to petrochemical manufacturing can increase efficiency and reduce waste and pollution.

Christy Rollinson is the arboretum forest ecology research scientist at the Morton Arboretum, and joined ABC7 Chicago Tuesday to talk about how the weather might affect spring blooms. The next month ...

“You can really make a difference to the local population. Any individual flower you put out it likely to get visited,” said Nick Dorian, a post-doctoral researcher at the Chicago Botanic Garden who ...

A sweeping new study reveals that butterfly populations across the continental United States have plummeted by 22% over the ...

Have you ever wondered how birds feed along their migration trail? I had this conversation with my husband a few months before meeting Tricia Keffer, founder of the educational nonprofit Food Trucks ...

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