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

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

New study shows that plants evolve in under five years, but extreme heat still pushes many populations toward extinction.

The study also suggests that plant populations have the capacity to adapt rapidly to climate change, but only if there is sufficient genetic variation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woods Hole researchers, Adam Subhas (left) and Chris Murray, conducted a series of lab experiments earlier this year to test the ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the ...

In the FRONTLINE documentary Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages, residents of a coastal Alaska Native community called Hooper Bay confront a dilemma. Their way of life relies in part on harvesting ...

How much of a $450 pot would you give to a charity that cuts carbon emissions by investing in renewable energy, and how much would you keep for yourself? That was the question posed in a recent ...