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. In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer ...

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 ...

Until the last half-decade, the majestic lesser flamingo had four African breeding sites: two salt pans in Botswana and ...

Since 2000, the United Nations (UN) recognizes May 22 as the International Day for Biological Diversity, in hopes of promoting international cooperation and conversation surrounding biodiversity ...

BirdLife South Africa publishes revised Red Data Book highlighting urgent bird conservation crisis in Southern Africa ...

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 ...

Humans could destroy hundreds of species. Among the problems is that some are part of the human food chain. According to The ...