Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

They detected clear chemical signatures in these remains, which indicated that lead exposure for these species dated back to at least two million years ago. Through high-precision laser-ablation ...

A new study shows for the first time that biological invasions don't change ecosystems in a single, uniform way. Some impacts ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change.

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.

The emergence and global dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) have become one of the most pressing threats to ...

According to the international team of researchers, lead and other toxic metals could have played a role in pushing ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land itself. Sea water divides the sunset and a ghost land of corals in New Ireland, ...

“Did Moses really part the Red Sea — or was it just a drought?” That was the question posed in a September 26 Instagram reel by Vermont for Real, which shows a woman walking across a rocky land bridge ...

From a young age, the river turtle embarks on a tough journey; the chance of a turtle hatchling surviving to adulthood is ...

In other words, the ocean’s ability to act as a carbon sink, one of Earth’s great natural defences against climate change ...