In a new study, researchers report that removing agricultural forest cover and later restoring it through afforestation can reshape soil...

A growing body of evidence suggests that warming doesn’t simply push ecosystems toward collapse—it also triggers internal rearrangements that can...

Marine scientists have unveiled a streamlined way to forecast how spiny lobster fisheries will rise or fall—using nothing more than...

A new analysis argues that the Japanese Palaeolithic has been underrepresented in Western stories about how people expanded across Asia—despite...

A team at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has identified a completely new genus and species of subterranean...

Mammalian carnivores look incredibly diverse, yet their evolution appears to rely on a surprisingly small set of dental solutions. A...

LMU researchers have reported a striking challenge to a long-standing textbook rule of photosynthesis: oxygenic photosynthesis can, in principle, occur...

Hydrothermal vents, scattered across the seafloor like isolated oases, host ecosystems that thrive on chemistry rather than sunlight. Yet many...

European coastlines are facing a growing squeeze: sea levels are rising while storms and saltwater intrusion intensify, threatening homes, infrastructure,...

Aquatic ecosystems worldwide are deteriorating at an accelerating pace as climate change, dam operations, and intensified human activity push freshwater...