Despite fundamental differences in their biology, plants and animals are surprisingly similar in how they have evolved in response to climate around the world, according to a new study published this week in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

The marine heatwave of 2016 was one of longest and hottest thermal anomalies recorded on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, influencing multiple species of marine ectotherms, including coral reef fishes.

Researchers of the University of Groningen and the Max Planck Institute have found that starlings sleep five hours less per night during the summer. 

Texas A&M Professor Craig Wilson said Monarchs number about 141.5 million this year, compared to 300 million last year.

In her 30 years working as a researcher in Madagascar, CU Boulder Anthropology Professor Michelle Sauther has had a number of chance encounters with a strange forest creature: a wild, oversized cat with a characteristic tabby-like coloring.

A new tool to help protect vulnerable species identifies some of the most cost-effective conservation bargains in the US.

But other parts of these Caribbean ecosystems continue to decline, and one species cannot simply replace the other, says UB researcher.

Soot from firestorms would reduce faraway crop production for years.

Paleoclimate research offers an overview of Earth’s climate change over the past 65 million years or longer and helps to improve our understanding of the Earth’s climate system.

The cores show life present at 2,600 feet below the Indian Ocean seafloor. The discovery could lead to similar finds around the world.