With this latest discovery, the researchers say noise pollution in coral environments raises yet another cause for concern for these organisms.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Scientists know that plants and animals often change to be able to live in extreme environments.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

And the team says changes in time spent in light or dark environments influences eating habits.

VOA: special.2010.12.21

But he shows in his book that they take place in other environments as well.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

JILL MIKUCKI: "We have a lot to learn from the microbes that survive in these kinds of environments and have adapted to these cold, low-energy systems.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

He studies environments in which bees and other pollinating insects are threatened.

VOA: special.2011.05.25

The insects can survive in new and different environments.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

In other words, my experience I think predisposed me to being interested in the kind of phenomena that people in these extreme and unusual environments encounter. With Shackletons experience in mind, John Geiger started to investigate whether other people facing death or extreme fear had faced similar situations.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

The architectural photographer says Machu Picchu is an example of how human and natural environments can exist in a well-designed and visually cohesive whole.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

"Exposure to tobacco smoke is a risk factor for cardiac disease already in adolescents, and that's why this study supports that children and adolescents need smoke-free environments."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"We think that they may be. We do know that people who are taken out of high tobacco smoke environments have a definite drop in developing coronary artery disease.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"That character piece is the foundation. As we like to say, when you are put in very challenging environments, like the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, or recently in western Iraq.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

New research has found that mice with cancer are better able to fight off the disease when they are in complex, stimulating environments, with lots of toys and other mice that they interact - and compete - with.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14