University of Copenhagen researchers have mapped a West Greenlandic narwhal's genetic family history and made a surprising discovery: genetic variation in narwhals is very low compared against other mammals.

Spring is notoriously windy along the coast of California.

What can fly like a bird and hover like an insect?

Members of the same bird species can have dramatically different responses to deforestation depending on where they live, finds a new study.

Larch trees in the permafrost forests of northeastern China – the northernmost tree species on Earth –  are growing faster as a result of climate change, according to new research.

Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have found that low oxygen levels in seawater could blind some marine invertebrates. 

Environmental scientists can tell a lot about the health of rivers, bays, wetlands and other waterways by studying the flow of sediments suspended in the water, and from the mud that forms when these sediments settle to the bottom.

The combination of a big population, good genes and luck helps explain how a species of fish in Texas’ Houston Ship Channel was able to adapt to what normally would be lethal levels of toxins for most other species, according to a study to be published May 3 in the journal Science.

Today’s North Atlantic swordfish population is a great fishery rebuilding story.  

Michigan Technological University’s 2019 Isle Royale Winter Study focuses on the implications of newly introduced wolves and the movements of newly collared moose.