Planting more vegetation, using reflective materials on hard surfaces and installing green roofs on buildings can help cool potentially deadly urban heat islands — a phenomenon that exists in nearly ..

New research on damselflies in northern Africa suggests that females may facilitate the reproductive success of inferior males when their health is at risk.

A research team used 13 ice cores from Greenland and the Russian Arctic to measure, date, and analyze lead emissions captured in ice from 500 to 2010 CE. They found that increases in lead concentratio..

An analysis of a 160,000-year-old archaic human molar fossil discovered in China offers the first morphological evidence of interbreeding between archaic humans and Homo sapiens in Asia.

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that could enhance the ability of reef-building corals to survive a rapidly warming and disease-filled ocean.

Rising temperatures in the tundra of the Earth's northern latitudes could affect microbial communities in ways likely to increase their production of greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide, ..

New WSU research shows people can be taught coping mechanisms to avoid negative responses to boring situations.

Vegetated highway medians are a proverbial buffet for small mammals, according to biologists. Animals such as weasels, mink, and chipmunks use the roadside bands of vegetation as habitat to find food.

Do differences in performance have an impact on the appetite for risk-taking in decision-makers? Economists have addressed this question. The result of their study is that people's willingness to..

Data analysis shows that products that are considered to be substitutive in nature have a very different growth trajectory from traditional product models.