From the rice paddies of South Asia to the wheat fields of northern China, summer monsoon rains sustain the livelihoods of ...

Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of U.S. data showed Wednesday, as ...

New research from the University of Oxford shows that cold snaps and heavy rain can stunt growth and reduce survival ...

A team of researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso has uncovered new evidence explaining why the rattlesnake's ...

Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Californians have long dealt with wildfire smoke as a seasonal fact of life, but those fires have become more intense and ...

Thirteen million years ago, a group of medium-sized monkeys known for guarding their territory among the treetops with fearsome "howls" started doing something new. These monkeys, among the oldest ...

Finding bats in the attic or under roof tiles is no homeowner's idea of fun. But Florida's endangered bonneted bats have few natural options left. With a dwindling number of large, old trees with ...

Genome editing-based therapies typically aim to treat disease by correcting underlying genetic mutations in patient's cells.

For decades, ecologists have known that how a species looks or eats affects its environment. But a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows that social behavior ...

Scientists have created a genomic blueprint for Aeromonas bacteria, which can cause antibiotic-resistant diarrheal disease—with symptoms often misidentified as cholera—in humans and animals.