When the volcanic island of Surtsey rose from the North Atlantic Ocean in 1963, it offered scientists a once-in-a-lifetime ...

Johanna Schmitt, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is a plant geneticist and evolutionary ecologist. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) How can plants adapt to their environment, and how will ...

A new study from Iceland’s Surtsey island shows that birds carried most of the plants that colonised the island, overturning ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

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Which plant hormones are critical in responding to drought conditions? How do plant hormone responses adjust to environmental changes? An article published in the journal Trends in Plant Science ...

Some artists offer a glimpse of a future that is already occurring in some climates. Others imagine a world past the point of ...

Wastewater plants emit nearly twice the methane and nitrous oxide predicted, contributing more to climate change than expected.

When we think of climate change, we often picture melting ice caps, rising sea levels, or massive forest fires. However, this emergency rears its ugly head in clinical settings as well -- by worsening ...