Drought’s one-two punch
Categories:
Researchers look into the effects of repeated droughts on different kinds of forests.
Read MoreTag: adaptation
Rising temps put desert shrubs in high-efficiency mode
Categories:
Long-term observations track Mojave Desert plants’ responses to climate change.
Read MoreSex, lice and videotape
Categories:
Biologists drove the divergence of different-sized feather lice from a single population. In four years the evolved lice had trouble mating with each other, a sign of speciation and they caught it on tape.
Read More