Climate change is driving drastic environmental shifts and accelerating global biodiversity loss. Hybrid introgression has recently emerged as a key mechanism enabling rapid adaptation to historical ...

Researchers study house sparrow genetics to understand survival, evolution, and how species respond to environmental change.

When environments change again and again, evolution surprises—and one population doesn’t reveal a whole species ...

Both crises share common roots and solutions, researchers say. The same global food system that is fueling rising obesity rates is also accelerating climate change, according to a sweeping new ...

As climate change rapidly transforms ecosystems, it threatens to wipe out vital species, potentially leading to ecosystem collapse. Islands, to which many species from elsewhere can’t disperse ...

For thousands of years, writers have come up with increasingly creative ways to describe the “wine-dark sea.” But a new study suggests that modern poets may be faced with a slightly different palette.

Climate change is not only warming the planet and disrupting rainfall, it is also quietly rewiring the way nitrogen moves ...

Researchers compared how genetically similar populations of Pocillopora corals cope with heat stress in Panama’s Gulf of Panama and Gulf of Chiriquí, both on the Pacific coast. The team looked at the ...

Human-caused climate change was responsible for about a quarter of the fuel available for the wildfires that have devastated the Los Angeles area, according to research from University of California, ...

A powerful future earthquake, coupled with climate-driven surges in sea levels, could significantly increase flood risks in the Pacific Northwest, a study has found. These conditions could impact ...

Everyone knows the feeling: tossing and turning during a hot, sticky night when sleep feels impossible. It's hard for anyone to sleep well when it's hot out. And the disruptions are growing, ...