It’s not easy being a tiny willow on the wind-and snow-blasted islands of the Norwegian territory of Svalbard.

About 9,000 years ago in the Balsas River Valley of southwestern Mexico, hunter-gatherers began domesticating teosinte, a wild grass.

BGU's Mizrahi Group has successfully manipulated a cow’s microbiome for the first time.

Slow-moving landslides, places where the land creeps sluggishly downhill over long periods of time, are relatively stable — until they aren't.

During the lockdown, people-induced stress among forest visitors was minimal, and confined to forests near towns and cities.

The devastating southeastern Australian bushfires that started last September spewed smoke and aerosols higher into the atmosphere than some Earth-observing instruments have ever measured.

Smoke from wildfires and agricultural burning has an important role in regulating climate.

The tropics lost 11.9 million hectares of tree cover in 2019, according to data from the University of Maryland, released today on Global Forest Watch.

An analysis of new climate model projections by Australian researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes shows southwestern Australia and parts of southern Australia will see longer and more intense droughts due to a lack of rainfall caused by climate change.

Plants drink up much of the water that falls to Earth.