Polar bears rely on sea ice for hunting, and the rapid disappearance of ice as a result of climate change threatens their ...

Climate change is driving drastic environmental shifts and accelerating global biodiversity loss. Hybrid introgression has recently emerged as a key mechanism enabling rapid adaptation to historical ...

Researchers say some populations are activating “jumping genes” to survive rising temperatures. It’s both hopeful and ...

Digital evolution experiments show repeated environmental changes can push populations toward different long term outcomes.

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought.

As climate change rapidly transforms ecosystems, it threatens to wipe out vital species, potentially leading to ecosystem collapse. Islands, to which many species from elsewhere can’t disperse ...

Human-caused climate change was responsible for about a quarter of the fuel available for the wildfires that have devastated the Los Angeles area, according to research from University of California, ...

For thousands of years, writers have come up with increasingly creative ways to describe the “wine-dark sea.” But a new study suggests that modern poets may be faced with a slightly different palette.

Repeated environmental changes can lead evolution in unexpected directions, and research from Vermont shows that studying a single population does not capture the full story of an entire species. All ...

A powerful future earthquake, coupled with climate-driven surges in sea levels, could significantly increase flood risks in the Pacific Northwest, a study has found. These conditions could impact ...

According to IDP Education’s sixth edition of Emerging Futures research, which includes views of over 6,000 students from 114 different countries, 66% of respondents are considering more than one ...