Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

An international team of scientists, including the University of Wollongong (UOW), has found compelling evidence that a ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

This study provides an important assessment of how body size influences the occurrence of macro-organisms in urban areas across the globe. Size in most plants, but only some animal families, was ...

Snow isn't always white; algae can make it look green, red, or orange, and scientists are trying to understand how and why these colorful patches appear.