Environment
Plastic Is Polluting Our Oceans. Will We Get a Treaty to Cut Plastic Waste?
World
Negotiators working on a potentially historic international agreement to limit plastic pollution wrapped up talks this week in Ottawa, Canada, leaving some ...
What It’ll Take to Create 21st-Century Mammoths, Dodos, and Thylacines
Science
Colossal Biosciences has generated a flurry of headlines in recent years, as the ‘de-extinction’ company announced plans to resurrect the woolly mammoth, ...
Florida Dolphin Dies of Bird Flu as Alarm Grows Over Species Spread
Health
Bird flu isn’t just lurking inside cows, new research shows. Florida scientists have reported the first known case of highly pathogenic H5N1 ...
Scientists Discover Mysterious Ecosystem Beneath Earth’s Driest Desert
Science
The Atacama Desert—an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth—is ...
InnerPlant helps farmers reduce pesticides and agricultural waste
Science
What if plants could talk to farmers and tell them when they’re distressed? That would not only help the plants but also ...
Bioluminescence Is at Least Half a Billion Years Old
Science
Bioluminescence, the eerie, beautiful phenomena that allows living things to glow, is way more ancient than previously thought, according to a team ...
Why you should celebrate climate change optimism
U.S.
Earth Day: 5 facts on evolution of pollution awareness Discover how Earth Day evolved from an awareness campaign aimed at college students ...
NASA Set to Launch Solar Sail for Sunlight-Propelled Space Travel
Technology
NASA’s experimental solar sail is ready to take flight in Earth orbit, using the pressure of sunlight to test a new way ...
UF scientists hope to stop lethal bronzing disease in Florida palms
Science
Phipps Park in West Palm offers skating, exercise stations, baseball Phipps Park in West Palm Beach is host to a skate park, ...