Runoff,” a major exhibition by eco-artist and citizen-scientist Christy Rupp, will be on view Sept. 28 through March 9 at the ...

PFAS are causing significant harm to the environment, people, pets, and wildlife, but it's not clear that proposed solutions ...

This year has been the worst for the Amazon rainforest in almost two decades. Although there has been a measured decline in ...

Twenty years ago, a team of U.K. scientists sounded the alarm on a then-underappreciated problem: the breakdown of plastic ...

“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

At what point does wildlife health become entangled with public health and safety? The anthropocene, the current period of human activity influencing the natural environment, is far-reaching and messy ...

Researchers have developed an innovative technique to rejuvenate aged oocytes, or immature egg cells, to boost their quality, paving the way for improved outcomes for in-vitro fertilization. This ...

The summer of 2024 was the hottest on record and, unfortunately, this came as no surprise. Summers have been getting hotter ...

Freshwater ecosystems in Canada, and around the world, are more fragile than they look and vulnerable to invasive species.

Climate change and a range of other human impacts are putting marine animals at risk of extinction—even those living in ...

Human activities on land and sea, in combination with climate change, are degrading coastal ecosystems, increasing the risk of extinction for multiple species and threatening important ecosystem ...

Our bodies absolutely need carbohydrates for energy. It’s a matter of survival. So much so, that some human populations have actually increased the number of genes that help break down starches ...