When faced with conditions that are too dry, salty, or cold, most plants try to conserve resources. 

During the last ice age, glaciers covered vast portions of North America.

Seagrass beds are un­derwater oases. Now researchers have discovered vast amounts of sugars underneath seagrass meadows. 

Protected areas — such as nature reserves, national parks, and wilderness areas — are essential to conserving biodiversity. 

Coral species exhibit different temperature tolerances. This is in part due to the composition of their microalgae symbionts. 

Waves break once they swell to a critical height, before cresting and crashing into a spray of droplets and bubbles. 

A combination of atmospheric measurements and fine-scale simulations has improved understanding of the modeling anomalies that arise when the model resolution approximates the length scale of turbulence features — an atmospheric simulation problem known as Terra Incognita. 

Researchers will soon be able to reconstruct the climate of north-west Europe including the UK over the last 4500 years, and to date wooden buildings and objects more accurately, by analysing the chemistry of ancient oak trees, through a new Swansea-led project just selected for €3 million in European funding.

The outer-core size of tropical cyclones (TCs) is vital for evaluating their destructive potential. 

Human-caused climate change will make strong tropical cyclones twice as frequent by the middle of the century, putting large parts of the world at risk, according to a new study published in Scientific Advances.