Ecology

Why are plateau and mountain timberlines in Asia shifting downslope, despite global warming?

Last summer, researchers demonstrated that non-invasive imaging combined with a staining technique enables the fast comparison and study of earthworm species and other animals in unprecedented detail.

It all depends on what the fish has been eating

Aboriginal stories of lost islands match up with underwater finds in Australia

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released a report showing that homes with solar panels typically sell for $15,000 greater than those without solar panels installed.

South Africa has finally finished compiling its report on the number of rhinos poached in the country last year and, as expected, the news is terrible.

A bacterium famous for food poisoning has its genetics altered to produce fuel or pharmaceuticals—and to keep it from escaping the lab

Chemicals that mimic estrogen hamper development of the stem cells responsible for making sperm in mice

The spill, which also included by an unknown quantity of crude oil, is by far the largest spill of its kind in the state's history, officials said

In his State of the Union address, the president talked about the need for frameworks to be in place to stop future pandemics and rising worldwide temperatures 

 

Scientists find translucent fish in a wedge of water hidden under 740 meters of ice, 850 kilometers from sunlight

Hug Point State Park in Oregon could use a hug. Pioneers certainly weren’t very affectionate with it: they blew bits of it up. Millions of years before that, massive amounts of flood basalt intruded a nice, calm delta, which also made things pretty explosive.