The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...

In a new study, we and an international team of scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...

In order to understand the massive changes afoot in the warming polar regions, oceanographer Allison Fong is hunting for the ...

Microscopic ocean algae produce a huge share of Earth’s oxygen—but they need iron to do it. New field research shows that ...

In the past decade, cloud-scale analytics tools have transformed the digital fight against deforestation. Instead of manual ...

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Deep within a biosphere in the Ecuadorian Amazon is a luxury sanctuary that offers a fully guided immersion into the ...

Stefan Lovgren writes on how freshwater fish from the Arctic to Africa are endanged by climate change and the unpredictable ...

Beyond biodiversity, stingless bees play a stabilising role in ecosystems under pressure. By enabling plant reproduction, ...

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In our news wrap Friday, more than 45 million people were under flood alerts after relentless rain added to California's wettest holiday season in decades, a 15th person has died as a result of last ...

A powerful storm carrying a strong atmospheric river laid siege to California over the last several days — setting records in parts of the state — with evacuations orders still ongoing Thursday ...