The planet is on the cusp of triggering the sixth mass extinction event. Conserving a small percentage of land could make all ...

Eating meat-heavy diets speeds up species extinction, while plant-based diets use less land and help save wildlife.

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the largest animal on the planet, but it is critically ...

Earth's systems are nearing tipping points that could plunge the planet into a "hothouse" regime — but there's still time to ...

Climate change and human-made shelters have created survivable habitat for the cold-adapted mosquito species Culiseta ...

Earth's 'Boring Billion' created the conditions for complex life to exist, report scientists at the universities of Sydney ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

Nature has become a rounding error on a planet dominated by humanity, and for some things we don’t even need our machines to do it.

From tiger stripes to leopard spots, the animal world is full of distinctive and intricate patterns. In a new study, CU ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a ‘super-Earth’ less than 20 light-years away, which could ...