PBR and Shell launch Carbon Countdown, an $18.6 million initiative to measure Brazil's soil and forest carbon for better ...

Drylands cover more than 40% of the Earth's terrestrial surface, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the ...

With over 195 countries on our planet, the world is a pretty strange place if you think about it. Every country is vastly ...

Creating a bioactive habitat with students can give them a window into the natural world while easing the upkeep for class ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from ...

Scientists say their Stomata In-Sight tool can observe plants "breathe," which could be used to bioengineer crops that ...

Once mosquitoes acquire a new food source, they tend to develop a preference for that particular blood—and humans are one ...

Floods and droughts across the globe are moving in sync, and a powerful Pacific climate cycle is pulling the strings.

Life beneath the surface of one of the driest places on Earth may be far more complex than once believed. Researchers have found that soil can support surprisingly robust and varied forms of life even ...

Although most of the desert remains elusive and mysterious, scientists have a basic understanding of the organisms that ...