Researchers scramble to adapt as bouts of severe heat and aridity increasingly become the norm.

Five women who recently graduated from the institution allege that it failed to protect students from repeated sexual harassment by animal behavior professor Michael Noonan.

The behavior is the first example of a mammal mimicking a more-dangerous species.

A study finds that dozens of bird species are nesting up to 25 days sooner each year than they were a century ago, likely due to climate change.

Edward Ricketts built his laboratory just onshore from the swirling tidepools of Monterey Bay, California, an ideal backdrop against which he developed a new system for studying the ecology of any given habitat.

The discovery, made on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, constitutes an exceptionally high number of new mammals to be described in a single paper.

Moving collectively on the water surface could help protect schools of fish from being eaten by predatory birds.

Projects aimed at collecting big data about the ocean’s tiniest life forms continue to expand our view of the seas.

The world was rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, but researchers rose to all manner of challenges.

Roughly half of the howler monkeys in the research preserve have died or remain unaccounted for. Scientists had been studying them for more than 30 years. 

Flames and smoke have killed dozens of people over the past month and burned hundreds of thousands of acres, causing massive disruptions.

Unable to travel to international or remote sites, some researchers are losing critical data.

The upcoming summer research season has been suspended amid the COVID-19 pandemic.