In 2019, scientists rediscovered a species of miniature deer long lost to science within the dry coastal forests of southern ...

We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, ...

Incumbent parties around the world keep losing to upstart challengers. Yet Mexico’s López Obrador defied the trend, handing ...

Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely on healthy oceans for food and livelihoods to support their families.

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

Wildlife managers, scientists and conservationists have a more complete ecological map of the American West with the release ...

U.S. National Science Foundation-supported research shows that caribou will optimize their migration path based on their collective memories. Caribou are the most abundant large mammal species on land ...

The findings challenge previous assumptions about butterfly migration and highlight the role of phenotypic plasticity.

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and south of the Sahara. But what determines whether some ...

Space weather refers to environmental conditions in space influenced by the Sun and the solar wind. This phenomenon includes ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fueled by sheep herding and people exploiting their milk. As early as 8,000 years ...