For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth’s atmosphere won’t always be so welcoming. In fact, scientists ...

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...

Fossil evidence reveals that palm trees once thrived in the Canadian Arctic, challenging everything we know about Earth's ...

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And yet, fungi have also been integral to the development of life on Earth. In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would exist them. “Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists ...

Rising temperatures make plants lose more water, weakening their ability to absorb carbon dioxide and survive heat stress.

fill an approximately 25-million-year gap in knowledge by reconciling the molecular clock—or pace of evolution—with the fossil spore record—the physical evidence of early plant life gathered by ...

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

What if growing food on Mars could revolutionize agriculture on Earth? NASA’s groundbreaking space farming experiments aim to ...

A stunning photo of a "parade of planets", shows Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, and Mercury in alignment from ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year, resumed its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the ...