Rising temperatures cause plants to leak more water, reducing their ability to absorb carbon and potentially turning them ...

Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. The mussel and crustacean species studied were able to adapt to disturbed environments, ...

Plants don’t have brains and nervous systems like ours. They can send and receive signals, but that seems to be automatic.

Plants play a key role in regulating Earth's climate, but recent research suggests that rising temperatures could disrupt ...

Don Kinzler shares information about research that shows even the slightest touch activates a major genetic defense response, ...

The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers it fired as part of President Donald Trump's broad cuts.

studies how plants respond to heat. His findings, which he discusses below, challenge a long-standing assumption about plant water loss and could change how climate models predict future warming.

What if every animal on Earth became a carnivore? Without plant-eaters, the food chain would collapse, ecosystems would be thrown into chaos, and even former prey species would become ferocious ...

Cognitively, some people also have a reasoning style that more quickly jumps to conclusions, Halassa said. People who are ...

The scientists used their data to chart where and when plant species emerged or disappeared across Siberia and Alaska.

Plants face unique challenges and opportunities as human activities reshape natural landscapes and introduce novel ...