The capacity of the Amazon forest to store carbon in a changing climate will ultimately be determined by how fast trees die – and what kills them. 

Bionanotechnology Lab of Kazan Federal University works on adapting nematodes to consuming oil waste.

The ocean is lumpy and sloshes around its basins for natural reasons. But it is also rising, slowly and steadily.

Earth’s surface may seem motionless most of the time, but an array of measurements show that natural and human-caused processes cause coastal land to rise and fall.

Scientists project ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets will play a large part in sea level rise in the upcoming century.

Scientists measure ice’s gravitational pull on a pair of satellites, allowing them to estimate ice loss and its contribution to sea level rise.

Extreme weather events took the spotlight again in October as the nation saw raging wildfires, record hurricane activity and record snowfall in some parts.

Research shows how lions have developed genetically and how different populations were separated.

To regulate their body mass, birds use a tried-and-true method—diet and exercise, according to new research by University of Alberta biologists.

For the first time, an invasive brown treesnake population has been found on Cocos Island, an 83.1 acre atoll located 1.5 miles off the southwest coast of Guam.