Wild salamanders that live in the Appalachian Mountains are shrinking because they must burn more energy as the local climate gets hotter and drier, according to a new study. Subscribe to read this ...

Wild sightings of California giant salamanders are increasingly uncommon. So when a park ranger spotted one while monitoring streams in a remote forest in September 2025, the discovery thrilled ...

Salamanders in some of North America's best habitat are shrinking fast as their surroundings get warmer and drier, forcing them to burn more energy. A new article examines specimens caught in the ...

Biologists are reporting another example of a species being impacted by climate change, describing how wild salamanders in some North American habitats are shrinking in a warmer and drier environment.

Climate change is contributing to a slew of global problems, from rising seas to desertification. Now, in a paper published in Global Change Biology, researchers have added another repercussion: ...

Researchers have determined that salamander population size reflects forest habitat quality and can predict how ecosystems recover from forest logging activity. They believe these findings can be ...

In what scientists suspect is further confirmation of the environmental impact of climate change, wild salamanders in North America are getting smaller as their surroundings get warmer and drier.

Hotter, drier weather causes the amphibians to burn energy faster, researchers suggest. You have full access to this article via your institution. Salamanders in the US Appalachian Mountains are ...