While the dangerous effects of climate change continue to worsen, legal efforts to address a range of environmental issues ...

More than 96% of deforestation, or human-caused, permanent removal of forest cover, occurs in the tropics.

A lot of the climate-altering carbon pollution humans release into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels gets drawn into the ...

Severe threats to the health of humans and other species derive from degradation of Earth's life-support systems, particularly the impacts of climate change. Researchers and practitioners in clinical ...

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled.

Hunter-gatherers continue to eek out an existence but it's harder every year due to pollution and the encroachment of civilization.

In 1996, when herpetologist Rafe Brown accompanied a few biologists to the Philippine island of Mindanao to study frogs, they ...

Throughout history, people have viewed seasons as relatively stable, recurrent blocks of time that neatly align farming, ...

Human actions like deforestation and climate change are creating new seasons, like haze and trash seasons, while traditional ...

Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by ...

When it comes to sleeping, few animals are as fastidious as orangutans. Each evening, as twilight approaches, the ...