The western U.S., particularly the Southwest, has experienced a notable increase in record-breaking high temperatures over recent decades, with recurring drought and heatwaves. These conditions have ...

As heat waves continue one after another, we are feeling their effects on our own bodies: It becomes harder for us to ...

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii alters the activity of about one-third of its protein-coding genes in response even to moderate ...

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have uncovered a mechanism that helps plants continue photosynthesizing under extreme heat and dry air conditions—a finding that could improve ...

Terrestrial plants drove an increase in global photosynthesis between 2003 and 2021, a trend partially offset by a weak decline in photosynthesis — the process of using sunlight to make food — among ...

Describe the strategy you used in the game to grow your trees. How did other players' tree placement affect your ability to get sunlight? What happened when a tree was in the shadow of another tree?

Plants make their own food using photosynthesis. The food that plants produce is important, not only for the plants themselves, but for the other organisms that feed on the plants. In this video, Greg ...

However, the researchers stress that this should not be viewed as a positive outcome of climate change, as rising ...

(A) Hourly change in LUE (expressed as a percentage) during the heatwave compared to normal years. (B) Probability distribution of diurnal centroid change in response to daily LUE decrease for three ...