When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

Nikki Romanik and Ashish K Jha propose a new surveillance system to detect and attribute emerging biological threats to enable a rapid public health response Recent advances in bioengineering ...

The Trump administration is poised to open 2.1 million acres of long-protected Alaska land north of the Yukon River that has been protected for decades to mining and other industrial development. The ...

Illegal gold mining is spreading into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, and experts say it is driving a growing environmental and health crisis ...

In the aftermath of Australia’s “Black Summer” bushfires of 2019–20, few policy questions have proved as persistent as how, ...

It's been over a year since transgender, nonbinary and intersex Americans have been fighting for their right to an accurate passport.

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Life as a fair queen helps one Georgetown girl get back to her roots. “I think this has brought me closer to my Illinois ...

An ecosystem is not a still life. Even where everything looks stable—a woodland, a lake, the soil—the internal "bookkeeping" ...

But despite assurances from EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin that new restrictions would prevent the pesticide’s damaging drift, the new approval is in many ways more permissive than past approvals. It ...