As I learned during an ecology lab in college, biodiversity assessment is currently the most effective and accepted method of measuring the health of rivers and streams. As I also learned during that ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In choosing sites to target for protection, conservationists typically look for healthy ecosystems with high biodiversity — places with a great ...

Although frogs and fish may appear similar from the water’s surface, they have many differences that make them easy to ...

Scientists from Bose Institute (an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology) have, in a new study, ...

Sponges are filter feeders that live on particulate matter - but they can also ingest microscopic fragments of plastics and other pollutants of anthropogenic origin. They can therefore serve as useful ...

Beyond metal accumulation, the study found that sponge-associated bacteria are functionally enriched with genes linked to metal ion transport, metal resistance and antimicrobial resistance ...

Freshwater sponges, which host diverse microbial communities vital for ecosystem health, have been found to have the ...

The carabid ground beetles of the family Carabidae are as common as they come. These little nocturnal hunters are found in almost any terrestrial habitat on the planet. To some, they’re simply pests — ...

With an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste escaping to our oceans each year, plastic pollution adversely affects the environment, climate, and even our health. Many plastic products ...

Sponges are filter feeders that live on particulate matter -- but they can also ingest microscopic fragments of plastics and other pollutants of anthropogenic origin. They can therefore serve as ...