A new study demonstrates how climate change can drive the collapse of marine food webs by restricting energy flows between producers, herbivores, and carnivores. Publishing on January 9 in the open ...

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have uncovered how soil food webs promote the transformation and storage of photosynthetic carbon in ...

Watch the video of Sarah’s school science experiment at Fenwick Academy in the video player above. Are you looking for something fun to do at home with a bit of science behind it? This edible food web ...

Studying ancient food webs can help scientists reconstruct communities of species, many long extinct, and even use those insights to figure out how modern-day communities might change in the future.

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen environmental ...

This episode explores two Vermont "food webs": the aquatic food web of Lake Champlain and the terrestrial food web in the time since wolves disappeared from the Vermont landscape. While food webs can ...

In the Grand Canyon reach of the Colorado River, two species play an outsized role in the fate of mercury in the aquatic ecosystem, and their numbers are altered by flood events. In the Grand Canyon ...

People with chronic conditions are taking medical research into their own hands, Betsy Ladyzhets reported in “Patient as scientist” (SN: 3/23/24, p. 22). Connor, a patient highlighted in the story, ...

The basic science. What is the soil food web and why should gardeners care? -- Classic soil science -- Bacteria -- Fungi -- Algae and slime molds -- Protozoa -- Nematodes -- Arthropods -- Earthworms - ...