Life Sciences: General Issues

For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemist...

The study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and ecosystem dynamics. The Ice Ag...

Biosphere rises from southern Arizona's high desert like a bizarre hybrid spaceship and greenhouse. Packed with more than 3,800 carefully selected ...

With its clear and conversational writing style, comprehensive coverage, and sophisticated presentation, Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ec...

Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by ins...

How long should a leaf live? When should blueberries ripen? And what should a clever moose eat? Questions like these may seem simple or downright s...

Scientist and author Cristina Eisenberg presents a fascinating and wide-ranging look at the dramatic ecological consequences of predator removal (a...

From penguins to dinosaurs, trilobites and humans, an acclaimed paleontologist and ichnologist reveals the subterranean secret of survival.

Standing with such environmental classics as Loren Eiseleys The Immense Journey, his friend and mentor Aldo Leopolds A Sand County Almanac, and Jos...

The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and s...

Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a B...

When we want advice, we often casually speak of reaching out to others to get some feedback. But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase ...

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are essential to ensure a sustainable society and healthy ecosystem over the coming decades. However, the systems to b...