In cities such as London, trees are already struggling with hot and dry summers. Botanists warn that we need to start ...

We’ve long expected animals to move to cooler habitats as climate change bites, but it now appears that many are actually ...

An exquisitely preserved fossil found in China shows that many anatomical features seen in birds also evolved independently ...

In the Pacific Northwest, from Oregon and Washington and into Canada, El Niño is expected to bring drier-than-normal weather, ...

Extreme weather could damage harvests worldwide, but the answer is more local food production, not stockpiling, Katie White ...

Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve ...

Though the El Niño is still months from its peak, it is already breaking many records. Two main factors are behind how it ...

The phrase “survival of the fittest” is so closely associated with Darwinism that many people assume Charles Darwin himself wrote it. He didn’t – it was foisted on him by a contemporary, Herbert ...

An endless stream of distractions, from email notifications to overlapping deadlines, can make focus slip away. Columnist ...

Taking hormone replacement therapy during the perimenopause or early menopause may reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke. A study of nearly 2800 women over 20 years suggests that starting HRT ...

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat ...

The main psychoactive component of cannabis seems to reduce persistent and distressing nightmares in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The drug dronabinol – purified ...