A new study of North American canid fossils published in the journal Nature Communications suggests that the evolutionary path of the family Canidae (dogs...
Short, rapid warming events, known as interstadials, coincided with major extinction events, according to a team of scientists from Australia and the United...
A study of clouds over the Southern Ocean reveals how tiny natural particles given off by marine phytoplankton nearly double cloud droplet numbers in the...
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds light on why early dinosaurs were small, rare and species-poor in tropical...
According to a team of scientists led by Dr Joseph Shea of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu, Nepal, if greenhouse-gas...
An analysis of satellite data collected during 1993-2014 has revealed a more accurate picture of global sea level rise, showing that it is happening much...
According to a team of researchers led by Prof Allison Steiner of the University of Michigan, tiny pollen particles may make it rain.
Small pollen particles...
According to a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience, fjords absorb approximately 18 million tones of organic carbon each year, equivalent to 11 percent...
A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has confirmed a long-standing prediction that snowfall in Antarctica will increase significantly...
Droughts in the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains during the second half of the XXI century, could be drier and longer than drought conditions seen in...
There is no substitute for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the negative consequences of climate change, the National Research Council’s...
Scientists from Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and Brown University suggest that water flow and warm temperatures on early Mars were likely related...
According to a new study published in the journal Climatic Change, the Neo-Assyrian Empire was forced into terminal decline by the combination of two factors...
A new study reported in the journal Nature Climate Change questions fears that Europe and North America will experience more days of cold weather over...
Cats eat more during the winter and owners should give their pet more food during this time, a four-year observational study of 38 adult colony cats has...
According to new research reported in the journal Nature Communications, light-colored insects are out-competing darker-colored ones in the face of climate...
According to a new study led by Dr Christina Chronopoulou from the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, the open air plays of the ancient Greeks...