Ecology

• IN BRIEF: California sues in bid to preserve wildlife laws

  7 January 2009

• Ocean research: The lab at the bottom of the sea - Premium content

  The best way to study life beneath the waves is to live there. Mark Schrope describes his experiences in the world's longest-running undersea laboratory.

  7 January 2009

• 'Mini-hibernation' essential for winter survival

  A daily dose of torpor helps desert-dwelling marsupials make it through chilly nights.

  5 January 2009

• Whatever happened to &? - Premium content

  As the year draws to a close, Nature looks back on a selection of news stories to find out what happened next.

  30 December 2008

• Downturn hits Chicago's natural history museum - Premium content

  Staff and science cut as museum's endowments crash.

  23 December 2008

• Feathers fly over Hawaiian bird - Premium content

  Dispute could stymie efforts to save rare honeycreeper.

  10 December 2008

• Agronomy: Five crop researchers who could change the world - Premium content

  The current crisis in worldwide food prices reinforces the need for more productive agriculture. Emma Marris meets five ambitious scientists determined to stop the world from going hungry.

  3 December 2008

• Q&A: Moving forward together - Premium content

  Why movement researchers are pushing for a unifying framework.

  1 December 2008

• Acoustic sensors for rare porpoise - Premium content

  Survey tracks world's most endangered marine mammal.

  26 November 2008

• IN BRIEF: Deep-ocean observatories take the plunge - Premium content

  26 November 2008