Scientists are racing to protect the world’s seeds from natural disasters and war. But what happens when those disasters come ...

Veronika the Austrian cow adapts the placement of a tool depending where on her body she has an itch, and challenges assumptions about cattle smarts in the process.

Solar panels on bodies of water in the northeastern U.S. might generate renewable energy but could also carry risks for birds ...

From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering ...

The story of wildlife is often told as a tragedy of shrinking forests and disappearing habitats. We hear about species ...

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Professor Shokoofeh Shamsi of Charles Sturt University has revealed the likely reasons for the attacks.

If the corporate and political powers carry on with business as usual, such growth will end in chaotic, violent collapse.

The night sky—the silent dark between stars—is a living commons bridging Earth, life, and spirit. As the 13th‑century Zen master Eihei Dōgen taught in ...

While you're snuggled up in front of the TV and many species are hibernating, birds are struggling to get through winter. But ...

Only a few hours earlier, a shark knocked an 11-year-old boy into the water at Dee Why—just north of Manly—and bit a chunk out of his surfboard. And on Sunday afternoon, a 12-year-old boy was bitten ...

It is tempting to blame attacks on sharks alone. But there’s emerging evidence that what we do on land can affect shark ...