Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. WHEN EUROPEANS first arrived in North America, the continent was ...

Biogenic reefs are naturally occurring structures formed by the collaborative activity of living organisms. These assemblages – often constructed by invertebrates such as polychaete worms – establish ...

Ecological engineering combines the fields of ecology, natural sciences, civil infrastructure systems, and environmental engineering to predict, develop, and restore ecosystems with a focus on ...

Dinosaurs’ eating habits and, later, their extinction may have altered the course of rivers in ancient North America, according to a new paper published in Communications Earth and Environment.

Aside from humans, perhaps no other species can modify its surroundings for its own purposes as much as beaver. Throughout much of North America, these busy critters take down trees and dam streams to ...

An engineering marvel is being constructed right now in a creek in Southwest Virginia. It begins when a male bluehead chub minnow picks up a small piece of gravel in his mouth and drops it on the ...

Without maintenance from nature’s “ecosystem engineers,” many of the nation’s once multi-threaded streams also became single-channeled and incised — disconnected from their floodplains. When this ...

As fearsome apex predators at the top of the food chain, wolves linger in the cultural imagination as a symbol of true, dangerous wilderness. But aside from playing on our imagination, scientists have ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Manufacturing is ubiquitous in modern life. Our computers, our cars, and many of the products we use daily are created using advanced manufacturing systems. To meet the future needs of manufacturing ...