Invisible environmental hazards like wild parsnip and invasive pampas grass trigger severe chemical burns and chronic allergies, driving a push for localized community stewardship.

An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar System and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, astronomers said Monday ...

Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

Snaiad's strange creatures and ecosystems continue to evolve in one of speculative biology's most convincing alien worlds. What is attendance like at Trump's state fair? Here's what we found. Map ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

The story of the Godavari has long been one of abundance. Flowing across six states and sustaining more than 70 million people, India’s second largest and most complex river system has supported ...

28. Hunt, Aaron. In progress. Moth Community Composition in Urbanized Landscapes MS in Entomology. 27. Kennedy, Ashley. 2019. Examining bird dietary choices to ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...

Increases in global trade and travel are causing animal and plant species to be more frequently introduced to regions of the world where they do not naturally occur. In these new regions, these ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...

Hug a tree! Save the whales! Plant a pollinator garden! The message we often hear from ecology and conservation science is that we should love and care for nature. But contemporary biology also tells ...

LANZHOU -- Chinese scientists have uncovered the response mechanisms of alpine plants on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, shedding light on how to sustain plateau biodiversity, according to the Lanzhou ...