Our culture has moved away from a fascination with the greenery around us. Experts warn that “plant blindness” could come ...

These creatures provide essential resources, support various habitats, and contribute to the survival and health of the Earth ...

Tube Sock-Like Skunk Covers More Ground Than Deer, Impacted by Winter Weather, Study Finds Oct. 15, 2024 — A study in the Cascade Range in Oregon of a tiny, elusive skunk found the animal can ...

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

Islands cover just 5.3% of the world’s land area, but contribute disproportionately to global biodiversity, according to ...

At the UN's COP15 summit on biodiversity in December 2022, countries reached an "historic" agreement to protect 30% of ...

Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few ...

But this is precisely what understanding death essentially means: grasping that a dead individual can no longer do what they ...

the Earth was more diverse than classical theory suggests. By reconstructing the tree of life from the evolutionary history of amoebas and the ancestors of algae, fungi, plants and animals ...

Some trees are so rare that only a single known individual remains, like the lonesome palm in Mauritius, Hyophorbe ...

What can tree wood density teach us about changes in the environment? This is what a recent study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences hopes to address as a team of researchers from the ...

One million species of plants and animals are at risk of extinction - including more than 20 hummingbirds Leaders and representatives from nearly every country on Earth are meeting in Colombia to ...