Researchers have analyzed the shifting patterns of entire dune fields on Earth and Mars, as seen from orbit, and found they are a direct signature of recent environmental change. This new tool can be ...

Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork.

Research by Assistant Professor Jacob S. Suissa at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is revealing complexity in how ...

Research published last month in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Physics tracks the Yangtze River during the intense rainy season called the mei-yu. The mei-yu, also called the "Plum Rain", is ...

Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Mar., 2007), pp. 149-159 (11 pages) Aim We examined the relative contributions of spatial gradients and local environmental conditions to ...

Environment is not the only factor in shaping regulatory patterns -- and it might not even be the primary factor, according to a new Rice University study that looks at how cells' protein networks ...

Aim: To describe the main vegetation types of the Korean zonal forests and explore their relationship with the main environmental and geographic gradients. Location: Korean Peninsula. Methods: A data ...

This has been a consistent message from the international community since 2002. The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), and “The ...