Odds are rising that warm, dry conditions – the kind that can hurt crop yields, destabilize food prices and exacerbate wildfires – will strike multiple regions at once.

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.