Biodiversity

Through transdisciplinary collaboration, the organization’s three working groups are redefining the region’s relationship with nature.

Chance encounter inspired team of biologists to study lizards with missing, reduced limbs

Seven members of the Department of Biology have received Maximizing Investigators’ Research Awards (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Aphids, grasshoppers and other bugs aren’t the only pests that can quickly wipe out a crop.

Pigeons seem right at home in St. Louis. You can see flocks perching on rooftops and power lines, waiting for a chance to grab a stray scrap of food or dirty a windshield.

On July 28, the National Association of College and University Business Officers recognized the WashU Arboretum as its 2025 Excellence in Sustainability Award recipient.

Cultivated plants provide people with food, fuel and medicine. But crops also face many types of stresses that threaten their growth and yields.

St. Louis sits on the Mississippi Flyway — the largest migratory pathway used by birds in North America.

The downstream consequences of religion, politics and war can have far-reaching effects on the environment and on the evolutionary processes affecting urban organisms, according to a new analysis from Washington University in St. Louis.

Before venturing out into the woods, a nearby park or even your backyard, keep an eye out for mosquitoes and ticks, which can be vectors, or carriers, for pathogens that can cause disease.