Nature

Temperatures last month were among the hottest on record for March, the European Union's satellite monitoring service said Monday, with particularly extreme warm weather...

Nitrogen is essential for all living things. Synthetic fertilizer, which contains rich reactive nitrogen, has sustained food production, but the nitrogen it emits is...

Surprising glacial and nearly ice-free periods in the last 66 million yearsSummary    New research reaffirms that modern sea-level rise is linked to human activities...

Fig 1. Carbon loss traditional measurement at 150 meters compared to carbon loss measurement considering depth of sunlight penetration.          Every spring in the Northern...

The white mould fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum detoxifies the mustard oil bomb in plants of the cabbage familySummary    Cabbage plants defend themselves against herbivores and...

Flamingos form friendships that last for years, new research shows. The five-year study reveals that, despite being highly social as part of large flocks,...

Food wrapping, fishing gear and plastic waste continue to reach the Antarctic. Two new studies into how plastic debris is reaching sub-Antarctic islands are...

Oxygen first accumulated in the Earth's atmosphere about 2.4 billion years ago, during the Great Oxidation Event. A long-standing puzzle has been that geologic...

    Researchers have discovered that ocean acidification impacts the ability of some oysters to pass down 'memories' of environmental trauma to their offspring.As oceans absorb more carbon...

Fig 1. A male Podarcis erhardii, the Aegean wall lizardRelocated in small groups to experimental islands, lizards rapidly and repeatedly developed new chemical signals...