A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

Scientists call for a major acceleration in coral assisted evolution research to help reefs cope with rapidly warming oceans.

An international team of researchers planted the same genetic lines of Arabidopsis thaliana in outdoor gardens stretching ...

The Wallace Line marks a sharp biological divide between Asian and Australasian species, despite islands being just miles apart. Alfred Russel Wallace identified the boundary in 1859 after observing ...

A study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...

Introduction. Human interactions with ecosystems ; Demonstrating causality for human-environmental interactions ; Committee charge and scope of this study -- Existing understanding of the ...