Research finds that corals emit an enticing fluorescent green light that attracts mobile microalgae.

The population of Antarctic krill, the favourite food of many whales, penguins, fish and seals, shifted southward during a recent period of warming in their key habitat, new research shows.

Alpine glaciers have existed in North America for thousands of years.

Far below the ocean floor, sediments are teeming with bizarre zombie-like microbes.

Declines in native bee populations are widely reported, but can existing data really analyze these trends?

Governments must provide stronger protection for crucial small mangrove patches, is the call led by scientists at international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London), which hosts the IUCN SSC Mangrove Specialist Group, in a letter published in Science today (18 January 2019). 

A Cornell-led study, published Jan. 18 in the journal Science, shows that apple orchards surrounded by agricultural lands are visited by a less diverse collection of bee species than orchards surrounded by natural habitats.

Rhinoceroses are instantly recognizable by their rumpled gray skin, immense snouts and iconic horns, but not so much their voices.

Emperor penguin chicks hatch into one of Earth’s most inhospitable places—the frozen world of Antarctica. 

The growth of forest trees all over the world is becoming more water-limited as the climate warms, according to new research from an international team that includes University of Arizona scientists.