Tuesday night, the Samford's Creekside development moved forward when the planning commission recommended the project to the ...

Sea otters, or Enhydra lutris (their scientific name), have recently been spotted making kelp forests their new home. Sea otters are marine mammals that are larger than you think. These beautiful ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Laurel Oldach about the use of horseshoe crab blood in pharmaceutical endotoxin testing, the challenges of ...

In California, people that depend on dwindling salmon populations say they stand to lose everything if more water is diverted ...

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

Douglas Bruce’s attempts to teach me, I wish the ballot initiative process in the state would go the way of the ...

While India is home to three otter species, the Eurasian otter is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN. Otters play a crucial role in their ecosystem as keystone species, and help maintain the ...

In 2007, biologists named these potent molecules after a popular concept in ecology. “Keystone species,” such as starfish in Pacific Northwest tidepools, aren’t abundant, but they have outsize effects ...