Palm trees are more than five times more numerous in tropical forests in the Americas than in comparable Asian and African forests, a new study shows.

National and regional policies aimed at addressing pollution fueled by nitrogen lag behind scientific knowledge of the problem, finds a new analysis by an international team of researchers. 

New research provides the first direct evidence for the Gulf Stream blender effect, identifying a new mechanism of mixing water across the swift-moving current. 

Searching for food at night can be tricky.

Ever wonder how land animals like humans evolved to become smarter than their aquatic ancestors? You can thank the ground you walk on.

The 10-year plan for conserving biodiversity adopted as part of the International Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) failed to reach its targets for 2020.

Satellites may make it easier for nomadic herders in Senegal to survive the lean season.

Every degree of ocean warming increases the pressure on fish stocks.

The large rodents are massively changing landscapes in the Arctic, which could have serious consequences for the frozen soils and our future climate.

Work shows for the first time that massive erosion influences seismicity - and does so in a geological instant.