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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

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