Tag: Earth Science

Exposure to health risks due to extreme temperatures have been growing worldwide and a significant number of heat-related deaths are ...

Four crops alone comprise close to 50 per cent of all crops grown globallyCredit: University of Toronto Scarborough A new ...

Bats tricked by the sound of rainCredit: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Background noise is generally regarded as a nuisance that ...

Credit: Met Office The forecast for the global average surface temperature for the five-year period to 2023 is predicted to ...

Approximately 500 million years ago, the evolution of a mineralised vertebrate skeleton had a knock-on effect, causing many new species ...

Credit: The University of Queensland Corals lurking in deeper, darker waters could one day help to replenish shallow water reefs ...

Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop ...

The BBVA Foundation recognize Gretchen Daily and Georgina Mace, two 'visionary' ecologists who have devised indispensable tools to compute 'the ...

New research confirms that leaves are nature's most sophisticated environment sensors New research confirms that leaves are nature's most sophisticated ...

Researchers show that corals adapt photosynthetic rates to prevailing environmental conditionsCredit: BIOS, Eric Hochberg Similar to forests on land, the ...

Credit: Jennifer Roberts/KU News Service LAWRENCE -- A University of Kansas geologist's work in the remote High Arctic of Norway ...

New open-access book presents 2 years of research on how to best tackle climate change and its negative effects, funded ...

Credit: Kiyomi Taguchi/University of Washington Arctic permafrost is thawing as the Earth warms due to climate change. In some cases, ...

Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--A field trip to Namibia to study volcanic rocks led to an unexpected discovery by West Virginia ...

HKU imaging technology shows first discovered fossil feather did not belong to iconic bird ArchaeopteryxCredit: @The University of Hong Kong ...

New research estimates species' niche by treating above, below taxonomic levelsCredit: Dr. Hsiao-Hsuan "Rose " Wang, Texas A&M University COLLEGE ...

Shows how life at the South Pole bounced back after mass extinctionCredit: Adrienne Stroup/Field Museum Antarctica wasn't always a frozen ...

Credit: UGA Aiken, S.C. - A scavenger study that used fish carcasses as bait provides additional evidence that wildlife is ...

Brine discharged from the Carlsbad Desalination Plant raises offshore salinity levels more than permitted, but researchers found no direct local ...

Credit: Opencage/Wikimedia and Anna Weiss/ The University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences. Climate change is bad news for coral ...