Near-shore animal becomes plant-like after pilfering tiny solar panels and storing them in its gut

According to previous studies, feeding urban populations accounts for 20 to 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions

Researchers say industrial sea fishing may be exposing people in coastal and island nations to excessively high levels of mercury

Wastes entering treatment plants are a rich source of information about a population

It contains the biggest genome ever sequenced for a virus infecting a photosynthetic organism

Ichthyornis dispar holds a key position in the evolutionary trail that leads from dinosaurian species to today's avians

The team braved second-degree burns, sulfuric acid fumes, and the threat of eruptions to collect samples of water

Climate change has been marked by a persistent, if uneven, increase in global temperatures through time

Spam-filtering algorithm learns to recognize full set of behaviors in jelly-like Hydra

This work is in line with other recent findings that chemical emissions from personal care products can contribute significantly to urban air pollution

By working directly with consumers and citizen scientists, the project is designed to increase public awareness of lead in water and plumbing on a national scale

Researchers used a variety of climate-change scenarios to project the impact of sea-level rise and wave-driven flooding on atoll infrastructure and freshwater availability