The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

The Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology established, through genetic connectivity analysis, that a northward ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

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A team of international scientists circumnavigating Antarctica has documented widespread environmental decline, including ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

Climate-change adaptation encompasses a broad range of human policies and activities primarily intended to reduce the risks posed by climate change. It includes both realised and expected risks.