Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.

But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000-mile odyssey on a raft of floating ...

Nano-agrochemicals and nanomedicine are two areas of active research. While there are some distinct differences there are areas of overlap and lessons which can be learned. Here, the authors ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...

Sildarvinnslan’s target of processing 10,000t of whitefish at the former Visir plant in the town of Grindavik has been delayed by volcanic activity, though now it’s on back on track ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

It wasn’t a volcano that erupted and spewed ash and soot all over West Valley High School and its neighbors. It was a ...

It should come as no surprise that when I head to a tropical island, I am more interested in the mountains than the beach.

Even during one of Earth's largest mass extinction events, where heat waves kill of a majority of Earth's species, at least ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...