Migrations of early farmers into Europe. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01756-w The difference in height between female and male individuals in northern Europe during ...

Environmental stress is a two-way street: we stress the environment, and the environment stresses us. Factors such as air pollution, water quality, and climate change can significantly affect our ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million grant to Purdue University’s Gyeong Mee Yoon to research how plants acclimate to environmental stress. Her findings could have implications ...

AMES, Iowa –Research at Iowa State University has shed new light on the genetic mechanisms that allow plants to protect themselves from environmental stress. The research, published recently in the ...

Environmental stress cracking in high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes is a critical phenomenon that undermines the structural integrity and service life of essential infrastructure systems. This ...

Transcriptome data under ABA-related stresses was analyzed using 216 pairs of Arabidopsis gene expression data accumulated in public databases. Genes with variable expression levels common to five ...

Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. The mussel and crustacean species studied were able to adapt to disturbed environments, ...

Grey reef sharks are having to abandon the coral reefs they call home in the face of warming oceans, new research finds. Scientists, using a combination of satellite remote sensing and a network of ...

How do the different parts of an adult plant communicate with each other when it suffers an injury, is waterlogged, burnt or exposed to environmental stress? Today we can answer this question thanks ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 6, 2026) Editor’s Note: We begin the new year with a clarion call for meaningful strategies to eliminate petrochemical pesticide and fertilizer use, based on the ...