Spring is here! It is the time of year for some of us to be planting new trees. In this Ask an Expert session, we welcome Lindsey Purcell, urban forestry specialist, as he teaches us how to plant and ...

It turns out where certain desert shrubs grow matters a lot — especially when it comes to making sure they don’t all end up looking the same. FIU assistant professor in the Institute of Environment ...

Most of us know that as living things evolve, they take on traits that help them thrive in their home environments. But how are certain traits "chosen" for future generations, and how are others cast ...

Between 1831 and 1836, Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe as the naturalist for the renowned HMS Beagle. Darwin's task, as far as Britain was concerned, was to discover and describe flora and ...

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which species ...