Insects are plentiful and inexpensive. Even when children aren't attending school in person, they can learn from the…
The Earth is losing plants and animals at rates not seen in millions of years. Ecologists explain how protecting habitat…
Birds found along the Gulf Coast have evolved to ride out hurricanes and tropical storms. But with development degrading…
The pattern of autumn sea ice growth has been completely disrupted, but are we really headed for a tipping point?
The 2020 wildfire season has shattered records across the West. It's a trend that's headed in a dangerous direction.
Living near oil and gas production can affect mental health, driving stress and feelings of depression.
Batteries power much of modern life, from electric and hybrid cars to computers, medical devices and cellphones. But unless…
Healthy seagrasses form underwater meadows teeming with fish and shellfish. A successful large-scale restoration project…
For the first time in the US, a ballot measure will ask voters whether to restore wolves to a place where they've been…
Restoring western forests – thinning out small trees and dead wood – is an important strategy for reducing the risk…
Molina, who died on Oct. 8, 'thought climate change was the biggest problem in the world long before most people did.'…
Over 820 million people around the world go to bed hungry at night, and that tide is rising. For working to reverse it,…
PFAS chemicals are toxic, widespread and persistent in the environment, and the federal government has been slow to regulate…
Similar arrangements already support the National Park Service, the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies.
Republicans and Democrats take sharply different positions on managing US public lands, but there's solid consensus…
Conservation or copper? A proposed mine in northern Minnesota pits industrial jobs against a thriving outdoor economy.
Greenland's glaciers have retreated so far that they can no longer support the ice sheet that feeds them. The ice sheet…