A larger part of the Amazon rainforest could cross a tipping point where it could become a savanna-type ecosystem than previously thought.

Women are more likely than are men to follow guidelines outlined by medical experts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, new research finds.

“Eat your spinach,” is a common refrain from many people’s childhoods. 

Unlike the vegetated tundra of its neighboring islands, Bunge Land is a barren sandy plain that also serves as a land bridge.

NASA’s Aqua satellite analyzed Tropical Storm Delta in infrared imagery as it moved through the Caribbean Sea.

Dust blowing onto high mountains in the western Himalayas is a bigger factor than previously thought in hastening the melting of snow there, researchers show in a study published Oct. 5 in Nature Climate Change.

Increasing fishing too quickly can cause coral reef ecosystems to collapse, new CU Boulder-led research finds.

During typical summers in the southeastern U.S., streams of visitors travel to Great Smoky Mountains National Park to witness one of nature’s most spectacular displays of light: thousands of male fireflies, all flashing together in near-perfect harmony. 

New CU Boulder-led research finds that the traits that make vertebrates distinct from invertebrates were made possible by the emergence of a new set of genes 500 million years ago.

Archaeologists estimate that the I-Kiribati have been living on their islands in the central Pacific Ocean for 2,000 years.