If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an ...

Wars come in so many shapes and forms. We have the internal wars of inequality – who has and who has not, poverty and riches – going on within countries. Then there are the external wars between ...

We found that Antarctic mosses create their own miniature climates, and these can vary dramatically in a single square metre.

When ranchers manage land for long-term ecosystem health, both people and wildlife will benefit. World Wildlife Fund Inc. is ...

An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

Few figures in history have done more to change our understanding of the natural world. We celebrate Jane Goodall’s ...

People living near protected areas share stories about how these places shape their daily lives, memories, work, and identity ...

Mangroves are increasingly recognized as vital Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) for addressing climate change impacts, promoting ...

In recent years, a new danger has emerged in the Darién Gap. This lawless stretch of ungovernable jungle has become a hive of ...

This year the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists — Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi — for the ...

For many years, researchers assumed that coastal-living marine animals wouldn’t last long in the open ocean, removed from their normal biome and food chain. One of the few ways that such species might ...