News: Biodiversity and Sustainability

A new long-running project allows undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience with ecological research in the heart of the UT Austin campus.

Collaborators across the College of Natural Sciences and UT Austin played a role in the transformation at Texas Science & Natural History Museum.

A transformative donation allows for the expansion of a Texas Field Station Network to study biodiversity and sustainability.

In some species, female and male butterflies apparently perceive colors differently.

Poison frogs are able to withstand a toxin which they use to deter predators, but not without a cost.

Among U.S. universities, UT ranks 17th in natural sciences, 8th in physical sciences and 7th in chemistry.

University of Texas at Austin integrative biology professor Shalene Jha studies critical link in the web of life: plants and pollinators.

An invasive grass causing havoc in Texas and contributing to wildfires packs a one-two wallop against native plants. Guinea grass uses a combination of crowding...

Go deep in the heart of science this month and next.

Traditionally, it has been assumed that cultivating food leads to a loss of biodiversity and negative impacts on an ecosystem.