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Topic: ecosystems

Juvenile Great White Shark swimming near surface underwater (Getty Images/Andrew Thirlwell)

Humans are driving sharks to extinction

Matthew Rozsa
A worker harvests salt from an evaporation pond at a salt factory on May 14, 2021 in Leizhou, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province of China. (Zhan Youbing/VCG via Getty Images)

Earth is getting too salty, experts warn

Matthew Rozsa
Orangutan (Getty Images/Manoj Shah)

Orangutans are being pushed to the brink

Assaf Levy
Deflated globe (Getty Images/Moussa81)

Ecosystem collapses may happen rapidly

Matthew Rozsa
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Chicken mushrooms in the forest (Getty Images)

Flora, fauna, and … funga?

Jonathan Moens - Undark
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

Climate change decimates ocean ecosystem

Sam Purkis - The Conversation
Wolf cubs (Getty/JohnPitcher)

Downsides of reintroducing predators

Shi En Kim - Massive Science
The United States-Mexico border wall is seen in Organ Pipe National Park south of Ajo, Arizona (SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

An intro to "fence ecology"

Alex McInturff, Christine Wilkinson, Wenjing Xu - The Conversation
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FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2015 image made from video, an endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle swims as it is released into the Gulf of Mexico, 24 miles off the coast of Louisiana, after being rehabilitated by the Audubon Institute. After the spill, the number of the turtles' nests dropped 40 percent in one year in 2010. "We had never seen a drop that dramatic in one year before," according to Selina Saville Heppell, a professor at Oregon State University. The population climbed in 2011 and 2012 but then fell again in 2013 and 2014, down to levels that haven't been that low in nearly a decade, she said. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (AP)

Freshwater species are disappearing fast

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Kokia drynarioides, commonly known as Hawaiian tree cotton, is a species of flowering plant endemic to Hawaii that is critically threatened due to habitat loss and competition with invasive species. (David Eickhoff/Wikmedia Commons)

Earth's plant species are in peril

Lorraine Chow - Truthout
A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

Bees: Bugs you can't live without

Milicent Cranor - WhoWhatWhy
Lobsterman Jack O'Donoghue checks the icy waters of the Harraseeket River as he prepares to have his 30-foot fishing boat, the Mary Elizabeth, hauled out of the water for winter, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, in Freeport, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

Warmer waters affect Northeast fishing

Elia Kabanov - Grist
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Newborn Malaysian tiger cubs rest in their nursery before they are fed at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens. (AP/John Minchillo)

60% of wildlife obliterated by man

Nicole Karlis
Channel catfish (Wikimedia Commons / Ryan Somma)

Keep the catfish babies away

Brittney Borowiec
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