environment
Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn't be farther from the truth.
A marine scientist explains the threat of the Loop Current, a 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks.
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
Here's why mega-eruptions like the ones that covered North America in ash are the least of your worries.
There's a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.
Here's what the weather phenomenon baking large parts of the country actually means.
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995.
We're separating the facts about EVs from the fiction.
Any alien civilization that grows to span an entire planet would spark the same effects that we have. So, what do we do about it?
Scientists have discovered enzymes from several plastic-eating bacteria. So, why are our oceans still full of plastic pollution?
The weirdest thing about the 21 feet found near Vancouver since 2007? Foul play has been ruled out.
This marks a historic moment in humanity’s relationship to the planet.
At least 33 cities are sinking by more than 1 cm a year.
Only 1% of corn grown is the U.S. is the type that people eat.
An effect called the "urban heat island" means that temperatures are often 10 degrees higher in cities, according to NASA.
Disgusting behavior is often crucial to survival.
The simulation gave researchers some of the first concrete data linking climate change to human evolution and speciation.
Two types of leaves for two different drastic weather conditions.
A floating platform the size of Rome collapsed off of Antarctica.
On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.
Murmurations have no leader and follow no plan.
From crocodiles to birds, certain animals managed to survive some of the worst extinction events in world history.
Can a non-native species be a friend instead of a foe?
The World Air Quality Index shows how clean your city’s air is, in real time.
Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.
The paradox of tribalism is that humans need a sense of belonging to be healthy and happy, but too much tribalism is deadly. We are one tribe.
The world’s great whales aren’t just vulnerable where they congregate, but everywhere they roam.
Scientists captured it on footage 1.5 miles below the surface.
To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?