The scarlet monkeyflower's ability to keep pace with a punishing drought signals some plants can adapt quickly to climate ...

Faced with extreme drought, these wildflowers adapted. Scientists call it "evolutionary rescue" and say it's a hopeful sign ...

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

When the worst drought on record struck parts of the US West Coast and Mexico, many plants didn’t make it. But against the ...

Understanding history helps us make sense of the present and even make predictions for the future. It’s not just historians who study history, but scientists as well. As climate change shifts the ...

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

Scientists discover that fast-changing cactus flowers, not size or pollinators, are behind the rapid evolution of new cactus species.

LANZHOU -- Chinese scientists have uncovered the drivers of divergent climate changes across Asia over the past 130,000 years, making headway in the study of dust accumulation, humidity evolution, and ...