At one Florida national park, however, it’ll take more than a hike or a bus ride to see some of its beloved features. You’ll ...

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down ...

Although biologists have studied seasonal processes for centuries, we know surprisingly little about the impacts of shifting ...

Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. This article appears alongside new research that estimates that more than three-quarters of the world's glacier mass ...

A new study, led by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, and ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

During the years after the Civil War, America embraced an economic philosophy called laissez-faire, celebrating the notion ...

Abstract: Recognizing the activity of a person and his motive from video sequences and sensor data is one of the major challenges in human-computer interaction and computer vision. Identifying the ...

On a shrub-covered dune in San Francisco’s Presidio, biologist Durrell Kapan and a group of volunteers huddle around a tiny plastic condiment container placed delicately amid a cluster of ...