Along the ancient banks of a river in what is now northern Israel, scientists have uncovered surprising details about the ...

Shutterstock There hasn’t been any real doubt that humans cause environmental issues in the world for a long time. There also hasn’t been much doubt that we cause issues with biodiversity. There has, ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution ... almost entirely of plant foods, primarily ...

Only when nitrogen is converted from dinitrogen gas into ammonia (NH 3) does it become available to primary producers, such as plants ... humans have been exerting an ever-increasing impact ...

Chinese scientists have discovered that fragile swamp forests in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region suddenly collapsed ...

Could some equivalent of meteorite impacts or dramatic climate change be underway, as humankind's rapid destruction of natural habitats forces animals and plants out of existence? Increasingly ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything ... During a billion years of evolution, they’ve become masters of survival.