The Endangered Species Act (ESA), now 50 years old, was once a rare beacon of bipartisan unity, signed into law by President ...

A spat between birds at a backyard birdfeeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in ...

Scientists have unveiled a new food source designed to sustain honey bee colonies indefinitely without natural pollen.

An international study published in Communications Earth & Environment has advanced earthquake simulations to better ...

UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton has been wading through thick, smelly muck in the ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

Inactive ingredients in agricultural, pharmaceutical, and other common products have typically been excluded from ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...

A study of bumble bees has uncovered a potential reason for the insects' decline. By studying bumble bee exposure to ...

A new study led by Prof. Bao Anming from the Institute of Xinjiang Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of ...

Prescribed burns literally fight fire with more fire. Often referred to as "beneficial fires," they target areas at risk for ...