Stanhope, Weardale: One of the best gifts I’ve ever received is a microscope. Sixty years on, it’s still a wonder to watch a mini rainforest in action It was hard to resist running my fingers over the ...

Soil fauna is an essential component of the soil ecosystem for maintaining nutrient cycling and biological soil fertility. This study assessed the soil biodiversity (macrofauna, mesofauna, and ...

Jessiah Hahs Brinkley’s fear of spiders turned into fascination, and then infatuation. As a child, he had nightmares after smashing black widows with his grandfather in the eaves and crannies of his ...

Out-of-state visitors may not know what they’re looking at, but fans of Texas Christian University (TCU) get fired up when SuperFrog runs onto the football field. Human-size and gray, with pointy ...

Soil fauna includes a myriad of organisms, ranging from tiny microfauna invertebrates (with body sizes <100 μm) to meso (>100 μm to 2 mm) and macrofauna (>2 mm). Among soil mesofauna, some of the ...

Wastewater treatment system by activated sludge, the purification of the organic matter by specific heterogeneous microorganisms, occurs in the presence of oxygen in aeration tanks. The analysis of ...

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have uncovered how soil food webs promote the transformation and storage of photosynthetic carbon in ...

Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its megafauna, is now drawing attention for a far smaller yet equally vital component of its ecosystem: insects and ...

TWIN LAKE, MI – Several small, silvery-winged butterflies flitted among the native spotted bee balm and butterfly milkweed growing under the hot, summer sun at Muskegon State Game Area. Wildlife ...

A chance to see predators in action draws many visitors to Yellowstone National Park. One of the most remarkable, and most dangerous to observe, is also one of the tiniest. The tiger beetle, ...

In some places, the underside of the sea ice looks like giant green clouds. These are the 'grass meadows' of Antarctica, made up of phytoplankton, or microalgae - the foundation of the complex food ...