Roughly 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean each year, and the U.S. is one of the top...
“Help! I’m fishing and just caught a huge sea turtle. She’s completely swallowed my hook.” We are two veterinarians, Debra...
Whether it’s turning forests into cropland or savannah into pastures, humanity has repurposed land over the last 60 years equivalent...
A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday...
Mexico City, the most populous metropolis in North America, has sunk too low for us to save it, according to...
Wherever scientists look, they can spot them: whether in remote mountain lakes, in Arctic sea ice, in the deep-ocean floor...
A surprising new study has found older men taking anti-inflammatories, like aspirin, might be protected from some of the short-term...
If someone asked you what the worst year in human history was, what would you guess? 1347 CE was pretty...
The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20 percent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the last decade than it absorbed,...
Food and agriculture start-ups attracted a record $22.3 billion in venture funding last year — that’s twice as much as...
A team of researchers from the University of Szeged has developed a zero-gap GDE-based electrolyser that has better stability than...
The “Mayflower 400″—the world’s first intelligent ship—bobs gently in a light swell as it stops its engines in Plymouth Sound,...
