Road construction through Sunamganj haor is destroying cropland, harvest.

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., has introduced the Farmers Freedom Act of 2025 to provide a permanent definition of prior converted cropland -- land farmed prior to Dec. 23, 1985 -- in federal law.

They focused on a group of organisms that form the very basis of Arctic coastal ecosystems -- brown macroalgae, known as kelps, which form dense and extensive underwater forests along rocky ...

It finds that under just 1.5°C of warming, more than half of the studied crops would suffer from an overall loss of potential suitable cropland, compared to the current climate. While warming would ...

If the message is powerful enough, the impact can ripple out across an ecosystem. In 2007, biologists named these potent molecules after a popular concept in ecology. “Keystone species,” such as ...

We found that the number of birds on the mixed-habitat solar farms was typically twice that of the intensively managed sites, and three times higher than adjacent high-yielding cropland.

These pathogens threaten biodiversity, ecosystems and human health. The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 is one of these emerging pathogens associated with environmental damage caused ...

And, hectare-for-hectare, we found that solar farms in the farm-rich East Anglian countryside that were managed with biodiversity in mind contained a greater number of bird species, and more birds ...

Introduction: Open-pit coal mining could disrupt the ecosystem and lead to the loss of service values for the ecosystem through direct occupation or indirect impacts on adjacent ecosystems. Methods: ...

This oversight is especially pronounced in the context of contrasting ecosystems, such as arid and humid regions, where a dearth of comparative studies has led to significant disparities in the ...