The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...

Road salt becomes much more deadly to freshwater snails when predator stress is present, raising mortality rates.

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. But now, as non-native apple snails disappear, the endangered Everglades bird, the snail kite, is paying the price.

Researchers recommend communities reduce road salt use and apply salt strategically, because of the risk to aquatic environments from potential runoff.

Freshwater streams, ponds and lakes across the United States are becoming saltier, and new research from the University of ...

The global appetite for French snails reaches even the smallest producers. L’escargot des Valanques, a small one-man farm in Provence, was once approached by an importer from Singapore, who offered to ...

What if you could employ land snails in a similar zero-waste system? Instead of homegrown vegetables, the ultimate yield for your table would be escargots, those glistening nuggets of protein. Yes, ...

Giulio De Leo, Stanford professor of oceans and earth systems and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, aims to decrease the transmission of schistosomiasis by lowering the ...

Early mornings at Puri’s Blue Flag Beach are calm and enchanting. Gentle waves wash over the golden sands as the first rays of sunlight stretch across.

Puri: Early morning visitors to Puri’s intertidal beach were treated to an unusual and ecologically significant spectacle — ...

A hot-water dough makes these scallion pancakes pliable and easy to roll thin for crisp, flaky layers. Mix scallions with ...