As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

"Most people would think that these organisms are just like spores or dormant," James Tiedje said. "These microbes are active ...

Sometimes called “growing zones” or “gardening zones,” USDA plant hardiness zones refer to areas of a map developed by the ...

After chatting with Ashley Joyce, founder of BUG, about whether gardeners can plant directly into the ground in Central ...

One impact of climate change is increased tropical storms. The southeast of Africa experiences tropical cyclones - for ...

The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

Mars may look like a dry and dusty world, but just beneath its surface lies one of the most surprising discoveries in ...

A study confirmed that humans can't survive as long in heat and humidity as once believed. It also validated a lab method ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

Study warns that climate change is rapidly shrinking mountain habitats, threatening two-thirds of butterfly species with extinction by 2070.

First someone had to conceive the idea of maps, then someone had to conceive the identity of ecosystems, and then someone ...