Ancient wildfires played a crucial role in the formation and spread of grasslands like those that now cover large parts of the Earth.

The new research documents how the North Atlantic communicates these extreme events to Antarctica, at the opposite side of the world.

Predators have been identified as the shaping force behind mutually beneficial relationships between species such as clownfish and anemones.

The nutritional qualities of shellfish could be significantly reduced by future ocean acidification and warming, a new study suggests.

When you think of China, do you think of potatoes? Maybe not, but in the Loess Plateau region of northwestern China, potato is the main food crop.

Writing in Scientific Reports, researchers say effective management of the marine environment could mitigate the impact of future global changes.

Forests (national, state, private) provide an important ecosystem service in the form of carbon sequestration – the uptake and storage of carbon in forests and wood products.

A team of scientists have discovered that the exchange of water between the North and South Atlantic became significantly larger fifty-nine million years ago.

The first study to investigate microplastics around Ascension Island and the Falkland Islands – two of the most remote locations in the South Atlantic Ocean – has found levels of contamination comparable with the waters around the UK.

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin’s Marine Science Institute have discovered nearly two dozen new types of microbes, many of which use hydrocarbons such as methane and butane as energy sources to survive and grow—meaning the newly identified bacteria might be helping to limit the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and might one day be useful for cleaning up oil spills.