Restoring natural fire regimes to California's mountains could be a win-win-win: more water, improved biodiversity and a reduced risk of catastrophic fires.

An international team led by researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered why some plants “live fast and die young” whilst others have long and healthy lives.

When the UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) set out to tag razorbills, their aim was to track their behaviour and movements along the coast of North Wales. 

NOAA Fishery Survey Vessel Reuben Lasker and a small fleet of unmanned, instrumented saildrones wrapped up nearly 5 months of research this week after crisscrossing waters off the West Coast in a landmark survey of species ranging from krill and anchovies to whales.

Odds are rising that warm, dry conditions – the kind that can hurt crop yields, destabilize food prices and exacerbate wildfires – will strike multiple regions at once.

Ancient wildfires played a crucial role in the formation and spread of grasslands like those that now cover large parts of the Earth.

The new research documents how the North Atlantic communicates these extreme events to Antarctica, at the opposite side of the world.

Predators have been identified as the shaping force behind mutually beneficial relationships between species such as clownfish and anemones.

The nutritional qualities of shellfish could be significantly reduced by future ocean acidification and warming, a new study suggests.

When you think of China, do you think of potatoes? Maybe not, but in the Loess Plateau region of northwestern China, potato is the main food crop.