Environment

Insects are all around us – an ant on the sidewalk, a bee buzzing by, a butterfly floating on the breeze – and they shape the world we experience. They pollinate flowering plants, decompose waste,...

Humans have visually documented about 1,470 square miles, or a mere 0.001 percent, of the deep seafloor, according to a new study. That’s a little larger than the size of Rhode Island.The report, published Wednesday in the journal Science...

As the world struggles to reduce climate-warming carbon emissions, India has pledged to do its part, and...

Sir David Attenborough is launching what he says is one of the most important films of his career as he enters his hundredth year.He believes his new, cinema-length film Ocean could play a decisive role in saving biodiversity and...

Representative Lou Correa, a Democrat who represents parts of Orange County, Calif., drives a hybrid car and wants the federal government to tackle climate change.But he joined 34 other Democrats last week to help Republicans repeal his state’s landmark...

Vaccination against herpes zoster, better known as shingles, not only helps prevent this painful infection; it also curbs the...

Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life. From dandelions to giraffes, nature finds a way.One of those ways creates quite a bit of suffering for humans: pollen, the infamous male gametophyte...

The National Hurricane Center’s forecasts in 2024 were its most accurate on record, from its one-day forecasts, as tropical cyclones neared the coast, to its forecasts five days into the future, when storms were only...

You might be able to explain your "insights into oral chemesthetic perception" to a group of chemistry professors - but can you dance it?Dr. Sulo Roukka from the University of Helsinki can and he's won a prize to prove...

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would disperse scientists from its independent research office to other divisions where they among other things will be tasked with approving the use of new chemicals.Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the...