Pollination depends not only on male bees emerging before female bees and before flowering, but also, crucially, on the orchid flowering before female bees emerge

Columbia Engineers demonstrate the key role of vegetation in responding to rising CO2 levels and show how plants will regulate future dryness

Research results provide an important framework to evaluate other seagrass and estuarine habitats that tend to have lower inherent buffering capacity and large natural variations in chemistry

Biodiversity—the essential variety of life forms on Earth—continues to decline in every region of the world, significantly reducing nature’s capacity to contribute to people’s well-being

The 1,500,000 penguins are located in the Danger Islands, a chain of remote, rocky islands off of the Antarctic Peninsula’s northern tip

A new study involving Iowa State University researchers explores how a mutualistic, or mutually beneficial, relationship between birds and chili peppers in the Mariana Islands helps chili peppers grow in the wild

A new study reveals that on average, mammals move distances two to three times shorter in human-modified landscapes than they do in the wild

Rutgers researchers co-author first study on biological impacts of abruptly ending efforts to cool Earth's climate

Scientists used high-tech tools to more precisely view where cleared sites were and how much lasting impact they had on the rainforest in the Amazon Basin in South America

A FAU Harbor Branch study provides multiple lines of evidence that nutrient sources in the local basins, including on-site sewage and septic systems, contaminated the St. Lucie Estuary