Feb. 26 (UPI) -- If world leaders, land managers and other policymakers can find a way to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius and conserve a third of the land in the tropics, global species loss could be cut in half.

Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Populations from Africa, Asia and Europe were migrating to the Mediterranean islands prior to the establishment of seafaring civilizations in the Mediterranean, according to new analysis of ancient DNA.

Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Scientists have discovered a new species of parasite hiding the muscles of salmon. The tiny species, comprised of just ten cells, is unlike all other animals known to science.

Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Scientists argue Homo sapiens arrived in Asia much earlier than previous estimates, and that the impact of the Toba super-eruption on climate and environment has been overstated.

Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Scientists at the University of Portsmouth in Britain have found the first fossil plant gum on record. The gum was found inside 110 million year old fossilized leaves.

Feb. 25 (UPI) -- New research suggests Australia's devastating wildfires were unprecedented in their scope.

Feb. 25 (UPI) -- According to a new study, published this week in the journal PNAS, reductions in nutrient pollution help corals avoid bleaching during moderate heatwaves.

Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Researchers have published the first scientific papers that rely on data collected by NASA's InSight lander, which touched down on Mars just over a year ago.

Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Scientists have found evidence that green seaweeds were proliferating in Earth's oceans several hundred million years before modern plants began colonizing dry land.

Feb. 24 (UPI) -- New research -- conducted by scientists at Vanderbilt University and published recently in the Journal of Zoology -- suggests invasive species, primarily foxes, are responsible for the quokka's decline.

Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Exposure to elevated levels of the toxic mineral selenium caused fish native to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, sometimes called the California Delta, to develop spinal deformities.

Feb. 21 (UPI) -- According to a new study, published Friday in the journal Science, bumblebees can learn about an object using one sense and recognize it later using another.

Feb. 21 (UPI) -- According to a new study, hominin populations were interbreeding at least 700,000 years ago.

Feb. 21 (UPI) -- The new analysis, published this week in the journal The Auk: Ornithological Advances, showed the fall migration of black-throated blue warblers is getting longer.

Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Scientists have successfully recovered DNA from a frozen bird found in the Siberian permafrost. Analysis of the DNA revealed the frozen bird to be a 46,000-year-old horned lark.

Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History have developed a new technique for sequencing the DNA found in ancient packrat middens, yielding new insights into Earth's ecological past.

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- NASA is preparing to send a variety of new scientific research projects to the International Space Station, including an experiment designed by the shoe company Adidas.

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Extensive cracking actually makes historic wood paneled paintings less vulnerable to environmental variability, not more.

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Through a combination of genetic analysis and field observations, scientists are gaining new insights into the uniqueness of the mysterious Himalayan wolf.

Feb. 19 (UPI) -- New research suggests the unique nature of the human microbiome may have shaped human evolution and the dispersal of humans across the globe.