Plants don’t have brains and nervous systems like ours. They can send and receive signals, but that seems to be automatic.

The groups argue that the mine would jeopardize public health and clean water, harm threatened plants and animals, and ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Their unusual story began about a hundred years ago. Now, as they head to the high north, an ambitious new chapter is being ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

I’m drawn from my bed at dawn, lured by something deep and impossible to ignore – an evolutionary impulse, perhaps – to the ...

Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead plants and animals, air and water. Different soils have different properties depending on their composition. Sandy soil is pale coloured and has ...

Sustainable air fuel market stalls as airlines want lower prices while oil groups reluctant to produce without long-term orders ...

Advances in medical sciences have reduced infectious disease mortality, but emerging pathogens pose global health threats.

White clover containing swards will deliver additional dry matter herbage production and animal performance levels.

Two scientists from Toho University and NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanet System Science ran computer simulations and found that ...

A “wholesale decimation of expertise” threatens the natural resources we all rely on, a former top government official tells ...