Corvallis, OR — A study published today in the journal BioScience sheds light on the importance of gray wolves in western United States. Led by William Ripple, a scientist at Oregon State University ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

As the study finds, EPA’s reliance on honey bee data from lab studies focused on LD50 does not accurately capture the threats that pesticides pose in the real world to thousands of other bee species ...

The current ecological crises facing our planet are extensively the result of a human behavioral crisis, according to a 2023 paper appearing in the journal Science Progress. The paper cites economic ...

The historic removal of gray wolves from the U.S. West facilitated the rise of mid-ranking predators across the region, wreaking havoc on historical ecosystem dynamics, a new study has found. Yet just ...

Marine heat waves have become longer and more frequent along the U.S. West Coast, as elsewhere in the world. But heating ...

A new study challenges a decades-old assumption about the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native waterbirds. Challenging a half-century-old ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental ...

The field of environmental studies examines the complex relationships between humans and the natural world. Like environmental science, students of environmental studies learn about ecology, biology, ...

Change the world slowly enough, and even scientists can turn into something like the proverbial frogs in a saucepan, unaware that they are gradually starting to boil. A new study, published today in ...