The recently announced largest-ever gift to the college is helping to bring new research synergies.

A much-loved great horned owl named ‘Athena’ is viewable at The University of Texas at Austin center and field station.

UT scientists study how droughts affect local ecosystems at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory and the Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station.

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.

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 that blocks out light from growing seedlings and what amounts to a chemical warfare in soil that is toxic to native plants, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

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

More than two-thirds of the Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station (SLP), which was home to forests, savannah, and wildlife inhabitants, burned in a fire.

Biologist Edward LeBrun is weaponizing a natural pathogen to use as a biocontrol for tawny crazy ants from South America that have become prevalent in the southeastern US.