An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

This year has been the worst for the Amazon rainforest in almost two decades. Although there has been a measured decline in ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...

Consequently, rates of invasion for freshwater ecosystems are among the highest of any habitat type and continue to increase.

Earth’s evolution has been shaped by a series of severe environmental crises that occurred millions of years ago, profoundly ...

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Researchers created a curve of global mean surface temperature throughout deep time, providing context for understanding ...

Sep. 9, 2024 — A new theory explains how juvenile crown-of-thorns sea stars (commonly known as starfish) can destabilize coral reefs. The 'degraded reef framework' explains how the loss of live ...

What influence do global environmental stressors have on the ability of an ecosystem to withstand these stresses and rebuild itself? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to ...