Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Biomes help us understand how plants and animals live in relationship with their environment. For more information about the Earth, check out the Science Trek website.

New research shows that it also dramatically changed Earth’s ecosystems ... colleagues estimated the changes within six different biomes (distinct ecological habitats) across the aforementioned ...

the early Triassic Induan and Olenekian, and the middle Triassic Anisian. They combined a map of Earth's geography at that time with plant fossil data, assigning plant genera to six major biomes ...

The tundra biome is the coldest and one of the largest ecosystems on Earth. It covers about one-fifth of the land on the planet, primarily in the Arctic circle but also in Antarctica as well as a ...

The characteristics of global biomes are determined by several factors. Latitude close latitudeImaginary lines that run east to west around the Earth, parallel to the Equator or 0° latitude.

Join EVA ('Earth's Virtual Assistant') to investigate the climate, animals and plants that characterise two of the planet's major biomes: rainforests and deserts. EVA: Get set for an exciting journey.