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 ...

Research conducted with the help of a University at Albany anthropologist has revealed the cascading effects that humans have had on mammal declines and their food webs over the last 130,000 years, a ...

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 ...

Even top predators like pumas flee in our presence. Worse, they might be disrupting entire food chains as they go. phil gould / Alamy On a rainy night in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a mountain lion ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our ...

July 10 (UPI) --New research suggests the ecological impact of an oil spill is comprehensive, yet environmental assessments are often too narrow in scope. Too often, researchers argue, oil spill ...

Researchers have identified the most critical plants needed to sustain food webs across the United States. Their study drills down to the top plants in each county and bioregion, illuminating a plan ...

The view from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, is endless snow-covered mountains and glassy, frigid water. You need to travel roughly 400 miles west from the remote Norwegian archipelago to reach the northeast ...

The Food Web app by the University of Western Australia offers a fun and educational activity that has students explore the relationships between different organisms within an ecosystem. The locations ...