Ecologists don't agree on what makes for the healthiest lawn. And restoring biodiversity requires more than doing less.

Together, they have built a six-legged robot called the Space Capable Asteroid Robotic Explorer, or SCAR-E. Designed to ...

FDA approval is hamstrung by a law that requires animal testing. Meanwhile, newer chemical filters are in use worldwide.

Researchers smashed an asteroid with a spacecraft. From the aftermath, they are learning how to better protect Earth.

A new study suggests that scientists should be honest with the public about what they know, what they don't, and why.

Some sika deer are part of a millennium-old genetic lineage sacred to Shintoism. Are they more deserving of protection?

The town of Seagraves sits on the high plains of West Texas, not far from the New Mexico border. Nearby, water pumped from the Ogallala Aquifer irrigates fields of peanuts and cotton. Dissolved in ...

The people of the Sts’ailes Nation have lived for 3,000 years on the banks of the Harrison River in British Columbia, its icy blue waters framed by mountains and fir trees. Evidence of their long ...

Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an amateur astronomer, would wake her when a comet ...