Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their environment, a new study suggests.
The researchers found the complex life forms, called eukaryotes, stored arsenic inside...
A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as sharks declined by 75% and fish preferred by humans became smaller, prey fish species flourished—doubling in numbers...
This year's Chesapeake Bay "dead zone" was the 10th-smallest observed since 1985, according to findings released Nov. 16 by the Chesapeake Bay Program and...
A "potentially hazardous" asteroid measuring more than a mile long will zoom past Earth this week, the largest asteroid expected to get relatively close...