Animal "construction workers" rebuild natural landscapes more efficiently than humans ever could
Ecosystem engineers like beavers and tortoises help restore water cycles and tree cover to degraded habitats
Coral reef restoration projects are not a long-term solution to biodiversity loss
Most outplanted staghorn corals in the Florida Keys don't survive past seven years
Why do some islands have more species than others?
New research on island birds confirms key aspects of a 60-year-old theory
Hermit crabs are using old bottle caps and plastic as shells — and it's killing them slowly
Around 570,000 crabs become entrapped in debris each year on the Henderson and Cocos (Keeling) islands
Reindeers thrive on the Svalbard islands after a century of conservation
Svalbard reindeer were almost hunted to extinction
How an interloper snake decimated Guam's delicious wild chilies
The snakes don't eat chilies. The connection: birds
Can Hawaii's waterfall-climbing fish survive when mountain rains change?
O'opu make extreme treks to breed that depend on stable climate conditions