For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change.

A study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...

New study shows that plants evolve in under five years, but extreme heat still pushes many populations toward extinction.

The Wallace Line marks a sharp biological divide between Asian and Australasian species, despite islands being just miles apart. Alfred Russel Wallace identified the boundary in 1859 after observing ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers planted the same genetic lines of Arabidopsis thaliana in outdoor gardens stretching ...

Study highlights the importance of biodiversity for the survival of rare plants and their ability to adapt to climate change ...

While biologists have worried about how rare species of plants and animals will cope with a rapidly warming climate, one West Coast flower is giving them hope after showing a remarkable ability to ...

Implications for conservation under climate change The approach could help understand and forecast the survival of species endangered by climate change, as extreme events like drought are expected to ...

On this special New Year's edition of AgweekTV, we're taking a look at the evolution of the crops in the region over the decades. We look at how crops grown in the region have changed in recent years.