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

Sexus Botanicus, by Joanne Anton, is a lovely exploration of the surprising habits of plants and their pollinators.

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

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

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

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

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

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

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

According to the calculations run by Ozaki and Reinhard, the oxygen-rich habitable history of Earth could end up lasting for ...