In 32 of the countries included in a recent study, at least a quarter of the native butterfly species had moved to new areas.

Climate change is driving shifts in where butterflies are found globally, a major study said Wednesday, with many species ...

A significant global research initiative published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reveals that over 1,700 species of ...

The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, round ears. In fact, all members of the order Carnivora, which includes a ...

Sitting off the Horn of Africa, the Yemeni island of Socotra was largely left to its own devices for centuries, its few guests arriving to trade for aromatic frankincense, the healing plant aloe and ...

The Earth is warming more rapidly than before, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more intense. While global warming is mainly driven by carbon dioxide emissions, it is also ...

Today, researchers from leading institutions, including the University of Manitoba, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Polar Bears International, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and San Diego Zoo ...