Earth’s atmosphere and climate change are strongly affected by gas exchange between land and atmosphere.

The world’s tropical forests are losing their ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – a development that could have serious implications on efforts to forestall climate change.

During the past decade, the Marine Institute (MI) built an ocean technology hub for Atlantic Canada.

More than half of the planet’s fresh water is in Antarctica.

Entomologists at UC Riverside have documented that a species of native sweat bee widespread throughout North and South America has a daily routine that makes it a promising pollinator. 

The ability of the world’s tropical forests to remove carbon from the atmosphere is decreasing, according to a study tracking 300,000 trees over 30 years, published today in Nature.

Wetlands, floodplains and aquatic habitats are some of Utah’s most important ecosystems.

The Southern High Plains of the United States have low annual rainfall. 

After more than 70 years, a great mystery of zoology has been solved: Honeybees actually use different dance dialects in their waggle dance. Which dialect has developed during evolution is related to the radius of action in which they collect food around the hive.

With just one water sample, and using no nets or fishhooks, the University of New Brunswick’s Dr. Scott Pavey can tell what types of fish live in a stream or lake.