Northern China, a hotspot of air pollution, has always been an area of great interest to study owing to the significant impacts on human health, the climate and ecosystems.

The newly reported genome sequence of a water lily sheds light on the early evolution of angiosperms, the group of all flowering plants.

Not all pine trees are created equal when it comes to fending off their mortal enemy, the mountain pine beetle.

First detected with sound, new study monitors zooplankton movement with light

Searched for and found: climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at the global scale.

Plate tectonics and mantle plumes set the lifespan of volcanic islands like Hawaii and the Galapagos.

The rare type of freshwater bog shares space with red wolves and bomb targets on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula in North Carolina.

As the New Year starts, the outlook for the bushfire situation in Australia continues to be grim.

For humans, light is a strong environmental time cue that keeps our body clocks in sync and help regulate sleep and wakefulness over a 24-hour period.

As deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon soars under President Jair Bolsonaro, a new study warns that the regrowth of logged Amazon forests, and the amount of CO2 they store, is far less than previously believed.