As officials monitor a rare hantavirus outbreak, Duke researchers are examining how environmental changes may influence where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nature and nurture both determine how likely you are to develop a particular disease. Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty ...

FILE - American white pelicans at Oregon's Lake Klamath. Populations of the birds have declined due to drought in some areas of the state, and have climbed at colonies on the Lower Columbia River. Jes ...

Researchers conducted a high-throughput growth assay and machine learning to address the genetic and environmental interplay on bacterial growth. The findings indicated that the environmental ...

When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable them to survive. For example, marmots and ground squirrels in California ...

Using mathematical modeling, researchers have discovered that rate-induced tipping, which can happen if an environment changes too fast, can happen even in Daisyworld, a simple daisy-filled ecological ...

Research on the human dimensions of global change concerns human activities that alter the Earth's environment, the driving forces of those activities, the consequences of environmental change for ...