indirect threats related to climate change.” Whales, which cover vast distances and can dive to great depths, are an indicator species for the entire marine ecosystem. And the indicators are not ...

Ask just about any paleontologist, and he or she will tell you that life ... a few ancient species survived the impact and gave rise to a “big bang” of modern bird evolution only after the ...

From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest ...

That's because you can't take regular tissue samples from the brain, and it is difficult to distinguish between tumor growth and treatment-related inflammation on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI ...

You will be redirected to our submission process. Anthropogenic activities are driving a dramatic acceleration in the rate of global climate change ... of rapid evolution/phenotypic plasticity to the ...

(Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images ... mitigate other (disastrous) climate impacts, such as more intense heat waves, the frequency of extreme weather, and additional sea level rise. The ...

Computer models predict that hotter, drier conditions in North America will limit the growth of a fungus that normally curbs the spread of the spongy moth, an invasive species that has caused millions ...

Hawaiʻi has been called ground zero for the loss of biodiversity – or a healthy mix of species, genetic heritage, and ecosystems. Of the nearly 1,300 species protected under the U.S. Endangered ...

A team at the University of Calgary is making scientific advances in understanding plant adaptation, which could ultimately ...

A new AI image tool could aid the development of algorithms to analyse wildlife images to help improve understanding of how species ... insights into the impacts of climate change, pollution ...

Homo floresiensis, a metre-tall ancient hominin, lived on the South Pacific island of Flores and hunted dwarf elephants until ...

A breakthrough in the theory of climate ... the evolution of the system, to what you can observe. It's pretty clear from that the best way to study change is in the evolutionary laws that impact ...