Sunflowers are unable to fully recover from drought, new research has found, contradicting previous findings on the plant’s ability to reverse drought-induced failure of water-transporting tissues and revealing new insights into how drought impacts plants.

When it comes to compounding natural hazards like landslides, wildfires, flooding and extreme heat, where you live makes all the difference. New research from Portland State University underscores this disproportionate reality, finding that in Portland, the areas most vulnerable to multiple climate hazards are historically underinvested neighborhoods marked by lower median incomes, lower education levels and higher racial diversity.

Careful genetic analysis revealed the new baobab species. This discovery could have implications for conservation efforts for the endangered trees.

Certain friendly viruses called phages can be weaponized to fight even the most difficult bacterial infections. But to make phage therapy more effective against the antibiotic resistance crisis, first we need to better understand how bacteria fight phage invasion, and how phages fight back. In a new study, researchers identify a counter defense used by a group of phages common in the human gut that helps them stay one step ahead of their bacterial hosts.

Before tropical cyclones can significantly strengthen, they generally must first become vertically aligned, with their rotating centers stacked through the atmosphere. New research using nearly three decades of NOAA Hurricane Hunter observations identifies four features that can help a tilted storm become aligned and more capable of intensifying.