Ecology

• Whale-song recording goes deep

  Underwater glider eavesdrops on cetacean communication.

  9 November 2009

• Conservation biology: Reflecting the past - Premium content

  Unsatisfied with merely halting environmental destruction, some conservationists are trying to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. Emma Marris travels back in time with the rewilders.

  4 November 2009

• US habitat rule threatens species - Premium content

  Conservationists call for change to Bush-era definition of 'endangered'.

  3 November 2009

• Lions' taste for human flesh dissected - Premium content

  Two maneaters devoured dozens in the late nineteenth century but one ate the lion's share.

  2 November 2009

• Amphibians rarely give earliest warning of pollution - Premium content

  Long-standing 'canary in the coal mine' role questioned.

  29 October 2009

• Fatal frog fungal disease figured out - Premium content

  Electrolyte imbalance stops amphibians' hearts.

  22 October 2009

• Fossil primate challenges Ida's place - Premium content

  Controversial German specimen is related to lemurs, not humans, analysis of an Egyptian find suggests.

  21 October 2009

• Climate: Counting carbon in the Amazon

  If the next climate treaty tackles deforestation, tropical nations will need to monitor the biomass of their forests. One ecologist has worked out a way to do that from the sky, finds Jeff Tollefson.

  21 October 2009

• Bleached corals ruin fish camouflage - Premium content

  No hiding place from ecosystem collapse on the reef.

  21 October 2009

• Lazy male spiders avoid dinner date - Premium content

  Trespassing redbacks reap the rewards of reproduction without the costs of courting.

  21 October 2009