All kinds of animals use conspicuous colors, from flashy reds to startling yellows and oranges. It’s a quirk of evolution ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate ...

The report stresses the urgency of protecting biodiversity. It highlights the need for a deeper connection between people and ...

chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy, a conservation group based in Arlington, Virginia. Most of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases is absorbed by Earth’s oceans, land and ice ...

An international group of scientists, led by King’s College London, has revealed how continued global warming will lead to ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa ...