A new study demonstrates that the recent mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef was not restricted to shallow depths, but also affected deep reefs. Although deep reefs are often considered a refuge from thermal anomalies, the new research highlights limitations to this role and argues that both shallow and deep reefs are under threat of mass bleaching events. Published today in the journal Nature Communications, the study focuses on the mass bleaching event in 2016 that caused the death of 30% of shallow-water corals on the Great Barrier Reef. It details how the impacts of this bleaching lessened over depth but were still substantial on deep reefs.

What happens to high mountain ecosystems when you take away air pollution? Not much, not very quickly.

An international research team found that planet warming drove major changes in vegetation and future warming may drive similarly dramatic changes around the world.

Researchers compiled and evaluated pollen and plant-fossil records from nearly 600 sites worldwide for their study of vegetation change.

Are Laikipia’s recovering lions turning to endangered Grevy’s zebras (Equus grevyi) for their next meal?

University of British Columbia researchers have discovered an internal messaging system that plants use to manage the growth and division of their cells.

About 94 million years ago, something happened that led to an unusually high amount of organic material being preserved in oceans around the world.

Study finds injecting fluid into sedimentary rock can produce bigger, more distant earthquakes than injecting into the underlying basement rock.

Trees try to protect themselves from extreme drought with various measures such as premature leaf shedding.

The vast majority of lemur species are on the edge of extinction, experts warn. But not every lemur species faces a grim future. There may be as many as 1.3 million white-fronted brown lemurs still in the wild, for example, and mouse lemurs may number more than 2 million, a Duke-led study has shown.