environment
Rich data on the global state of our feathered friends presents plenty of bad news — but also some bright spots.
De-urbanized lifestyles can be aligned with basic Taoist principles — and remote workers are starting to feel the connection.
The “island rule” hypothesizes that species shrink or supersize to fill insular niches not available to them on the mainland.
Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.
The jail environment teaches the animals that approaching humans results in a boring and annoying experience.
At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Frugality can also benefit the environment.
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
Was it the enormous magnitude of the quake, or is the problem with the buildings?
According to Peter Ward’s “Medea hypothesis,” photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
Slimy biofilms made up of bacterial and eukaryotic life forms have taken over an abandoned, flooded uranium mine in Germany.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
A toxicologist explains the impacts of antidepressants on fish — and no, they’re not getting any happier.
What we’ve learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
Why can’t more rainwater be collected for the long, dry spring and summer when it’s needed?
Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
From synthetic biology to xenotransplantation, biotech will continue to march forward in 2023, in part powered by data and AI.
If dogs are out in coats and boots, how are the squirrels feeling?
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
Merely 256 genetically engineered mice could make an island’s pest population go extinct.
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.