Along the banks of creeks and rivers outside of Austin, farmers growing everything from Christmas trees to ostriches have ...

A team of researchers in France are building on fundamental experimental research undertaken in the Ukrainian Chornobyl ...

For over two centuries, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) has played a central role in this ...

Flash floods in Texas last week killed at least 121 people and left more than 170 missing. Farmers are now working to assess ...

Circadian rhythms are an evolutionarily adaptive trait most animals possess. The circadian clock allows animals to ...

Through multiple simultaneous and interacting health risks, climate change is threatening to reverse years of progress in public health and sustainable development. Even with overwhelming evidence on ...

A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

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When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

The animals we best know as fish food help to store millions of tons of carbon in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

As the climate warms, scientists expect animals and plants to move to cooler areas—uphill, toward the poles, or into deeper waters. But in a surprising twist, scientists have found that over a third ...

Pelagic fishes include a diverse range of species that have evolved distinct physiological, behavioral and morphological traits for life in the open-water.